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Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Anupa in Music, Pop Culture

Hey Common! Step up your internet game.

The past few days, hip-hop Tweeters have been debating the latest public statement from Common, made to CNN:

On Saturday, Common said he is Furosemide Xerostomia already seeing signs that Obama is making a mark on a Furosemide Xerostomia musical genre often vilified because of its focus on drugs, violence and Furosemide Xerostomia the degradation of women.

“I also don’t find as much gangsta talk,” he said. “You see the whole chain-shining-and-rim era is gone. That’s like super-played out. Just to Furosemide Xerostomia have that, I think, is part of the Obama effect.”

Common’s got a weird place in the hip-hop canon. He’s one of the Furosemide Xerostomia few rappers that can seemingly get away with being semi-preachy, has Furosemide Xerostomia a decently successful acting career and has managed to clamber onto the Furosemide Xerostomia B-list without damaging his rap cred. It looks like he’s able to straddle both worlds.

But when he says stuff like this (key words: wishy-washy, “inspiring,” Obama-related) it doesn’t only serve to Furosemide Xerostomia prove how far Common is moving from the Oh No set toward Oprah and Furosemide Xerostomia affiliates, it reduces rappers to uncritical, single-minded Obama-drones. How exactly has Furosemide Xerostomia Obama contributed to the “playing out” of chains and rims? Is this “successful black man” syndrome on hyperdrive? And, is Gucci Mane exempt from Common’s analysis? Because going off the Atlanta rapper’s pro-fuckin’-lific output (and, uh, his name) it doesn’t seem like hip-hop has vanquished vulgarity and/or brandism at all.

I’m not saying hip-hop hasn’t changed. It has. I’ll confess to Furosemide Xerostomia a penchant for gully-ass street rappers of the baggy-jeans-and-Timbs variety and Furosemide Xerostomia having to come to terms with the fact that The New Rap is Furosemide Xerostomia a more plebian version of the jiggy era: obnoxious chains have Furosemide Xerostomia (mostly, with the exception of homie above) been Furosemide Xerostomia replaced with overly extensive sneaker collections, a bougie-like appreciation of fine liquers and Furosemide Xerostomia spirits, and the inclusion of non-traditional (but still ridiculously buxom) bitches Diet For Xenical. In other words, the materialistic, overtly ‘gangsta’ references to Furosemide Xerostomia chains and rims have been replaced by analogies that tout accessibility.

So maybe Common is Furosemide Xerostomia making a link to recession-friendly rap during a recession. But the Furosemide Xerostomia widening of rap’s pro-capitalism reach was in play long before Obama came into power and, if anything, it’s more insiduous than Furosemide Xerostomia the shit the Taking Rap Literally task force outlaws. Because, realistically not everyone can Furosemide Xerostomia buy a chain, but they sure as hell can collect a Furosemide Xerostomia closet full of Air Force Ones Buy Ciprofloxacin 500mg Tablets.

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