Feelin’ the Healin’: Young Jeezy, Jay-Z Perform “My President is Black” Remix on Inauguration Eve
by Andrew Breitbart
I do not feel the need to offer much commentary. I believe this video speaks for itself and expect no condemnation from the “hope-change” artistic community. From knowledgeable people, I have been informed that Young Jeezy and Jaz-Z are popular troubadours in the Hop-Hip community.
0:41-1:17
Young Jeezy: I know you all are thanking a lot of people right now, the people of Barack Obama campaign. Just everybody who did everything, on the street getting votes and all that and sh*t. I wanna thank two people, I wanna thank the mother f**ker overseas that threw two shoes at George Bush and I wanna thank-and listen, listen-and I wanna thank the mother f**kers who helped dem move their sh*t up out of the White House. Keep it moving bitch because my president is mother f**king black, nigga!2:02-2:06
Jeezy: Nigga
Jay-Z: You know it
Jeezy: I’m so proud to be black right now. I don’t even know what to say, nigga.Jay Z- at about 5:40 on this video
Neva thought Id Say this sh*t baby Im good
You can keep ya Puss,
I dont want no More BUSH
No More War, No More Iraq
No More White LIES, My President is BLACK
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So, I guess all the white folks gonna finally know what's been being said behind their backs since forever.
Will it be comparable to our understanding, finally, that Islam could care less how much we love and understand them and desire friendship?
Is this really Black America?
Jeezy actually said he wants "to thank the m'fer overseas who threw two shoes at George Bush.
Where is the outrage from The Messiah himself? I thought this was supposed to be the party of unity, not divisiveness?
"Lola – January 21st, 2009 at 10:58 am
Wow I am appalled and yet fascinated. These two are like a human car wreck. You can’t help but rubberneck. Is this what passes for class nowdays? If Sinatra was alive right now he would be horrified and trust me he’d let people know."
Why is Sinatra's brand of misogynistic gangsterism acceptable by Lil' Wayne's is grotesque?
Why isn't the black community denouncing this? Similar to Muslims not speaking out against terrorism. I suppose they support these statements if no one speaks out?
What does anyone expect? White people were insulted at the inaugural in front of the entire nation by that black preacher & the Tom Brokaw was using racial slurs against poor whites on live TV yesterday.
Get used to it from here on out…
I am absolutely disgusted by this! Is this what we are going to be hearing now that we have a black persident? If these people want respect, maybe they should stop using the N word. It is just awful.
Andrew, being white, you have not yet embraced the right.
OMG…classy as always…
“julie – January 21st, 2009 at 10:38 am
I am absolutely disgusted by this! Is this what we are going to be hearing now that we have a black persident? If these people want respect, maybe they should stop using the N word. It is just awful.”
I have to say, I find it odd that you’re more offended that he used the N word (speaking of annoying terms) than the anti white stuff….assuming you’re white of course.
Yes, my friends, racism is alive and well in America.
And the post-racial era begins.
The Klan with a tan.
Hip-Hop money doesnt buy you class. These two clowns are the poster scum for trash with money.
I am so embarrassed for America and I can not believe these ignorant low-class-losers-on-parade will be invading every aspect of our lives for the next four years. What a sad commentary on our “enlightened” culture. I feel so sorry for the generations who are going to have to deal with the fall-out from this degradation!
And this is why they will NEVER get a cent of my money. Also the reason I have a concealed carry permit and I use it every day.
Charming.
Thank you for posting this!
Don’t give The Pretender ANY Honeymoon. The guy does not have good intentions for this country. A video like this will do a lot to wake up those who have been fooled.
Beautiful. What an artist!
I’m so happy to be in post-racial America!
Dropping N-bombs on Obama’s inauguration day.
If Obama had any real guts he’d tell celebs like Jay-Z to grow up.
I find it absolutely fascinating that none of the Lib trolls have come on here to defend this yet. Perhaps they are embarrased by this open display of racism in celebration of the new Commander in Chief?
Man that is fine talent. I hope these guys wake up every day and thank God for the artistic blessings bestowed upon them.
Someone needs to explain me (worthless cracker though I am) why young black men need to prove every negative stereotype by intentionally living them out.
Is there anything more poisonous to the United States right now than hip-hop culture?
Wow. Just. Wow.
I’d make a reference about pots and kettles but it would probably be turned into a racial slur.
I thought there was a whole flag-burning campaign against the use of the “n” word?
Maybe if we end Affirmative Action outright, their whining will stop.
I hope Obama doesn’t burst their bubble when they realize their world won’t magically transform into all sunshine, rainbows, and endlessly flowing Cristal because the president happens to share their skin color.
I was going to link to David Banner’s “Bush,” but then I realized that if all y’all start fainting at once some people might accidentally think it’s the Rapture.
Christina–
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13350034/
“A.E. – January 21st, 2009 at 11:26 am
If they are tired of ‘white lies’ they need only to listen to Obama during his campaign… you will get your fill of ‘black lies’ ….”
A.E….to them if Obama lies then it must be the white-half part of him..never the black-half part so he’s off the hook. They’ll be blaming his white grandmother for using her cracker ways to influence him. Pathetic.
LMAO there are sooooooooo many blacks expecting the impossible now. They sure will be disappointed to learn that just since Obama is black they are not suddenly on easy street. They think whites all are LMAO get ready for reality brothers and sisters. The reality that you get what you make and the government servers only itself. He is 1/2 black and from Chicago politics and you honestly think he cares about you. You already voted right? Thats all he wanted just like all the others. Blacks owe their current state of being to politicians like these don’t expect them to change your lot in like they count on your votes they spend all the rest of our money cultivating year after year.
Not mentioned at all is that Jay Z and Jeezy suck at their craft. Sure they make a lot of money, but they are both talentless hacks. And they’re talentless at rapping? How freaking sad is that. Again, the appropriately named tehstupid misses the point yet again.
Obama is a Jay-Z fan, listens to the music, copies his gestures from videos, has met with him personally, and has the same attitudes.
A Black President cannot and will not give ordinary White men in particular a fair shake (I suspect Scarlett Johanssen will be given “special” treatment along with Anne Hathaway).
A Black President IS racially biased and filled with hate toward the 60% of the country that is White. He hates us, we know it, we are sick of it.
And this is some new behavior? What rock has everyone here just crawled out from under? Open your ears and eyes people, this culture has been spewing this vile for years. Obama nor anyone with a brain would approve of this talk. Just because they’re black doesn’t mean they speak for BHO.
Rappers being crude racist jerks?
Gosh, what a news flash!
Wow, Andrew, thanks for this. I can’t believe this happened in our nation’s capital. It’s truly a sad day for America.
“Dennis – January 21st, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Republicans have the rednecks…the Democrats have the hip hop crowd.
You decide.”
Not sure if you mean the rednecks are just as bad…but last time I looked rednecks (and I definitely don’t mean the country music crowd) who spew ignorant hate don’t have national media platforms from which to do it. Not the same. And by the way…I sure hope this “Hip-Hop” ball was not one of the events paid for by the American taxpayer.
This is why rap music and rappers are a joke. If they only had the capability to step back and look at themselves they might see why a majority of people are laughing at them not with them.
We in it now.
I just stopped back in to see if tehstupid was actually stupid enough to troll this thread.
Why yes, yes he is that stupid.
A little something I knocked out awhile back…
(n)word
so let me get this straight-
acceptable
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(un)acceptable
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blacks
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straight?
Looks like Drudge is scared to post this.
Ah yes change we can believe in!
This gives me HOPE for Change!
/sarcasm off
I’m sick of looking at lazily dressed people who glorify clothing intended to conceal firearms.
One more thing…looks like he doesnt want freedom for Iraqis that he so much wants for himself.
thats called a hypocrite.
If John McCain had won and Screwdriver (a well known Nazi-leaning “Oi!”/street punk band) played a show to celebrate, you wouldn’t post it here as a condemnation of white folks everywhere or expect any white leader to come out and say anything bad about it. It’s a double standard.
It’s the same as people demanding apologies and public outrage from Muslim groups over the actions of Osama Bin Laden. They shouldn’t have to anymore than you should have to. Muslims in America hold no more responsibility to decry Osama than I, as a young Jewish man, have to decry the IDF’s recent use of white phosphorous over Gaza.
But as for this. Go ahead. Bash it. Call Jay-Z ignorant and worthless, and a blight upon culture. That’s your prerogative. But I’ve met the man and I would guess that he has an IQ of around 160-180. Dude could read at an 11th grade level in the 4th grade. He’s more intelligent, articulate and lucid than anyone else I have ever met.
And what’s more, he has had a bigger impact on culture and your own children than you can imagine.
But go ahead, stick your head in the sand and your fingers in your ears and pretend that hip-hop (which is not synonymous with rap, by the by) is just a “stupid fad”. But in 40 years, Jay-Z will still be on the radio and most of you will be dead.
On my bookshelf right now are copies the collected works of Allen Ginsberg, about 6 books by Chuck Bukowski, The Iliad, as well as some Keats, Saul Williams and Jack Kerouac. So, I’m not ignorant of poetry.
Hip-Hop and Rap are inherently political art forms. The outward rage and misogyny are not literal. It’s a genre about a generation of young men who were abandoned by their fathers and felt unwelcome in their own country. They were all extremely disenfranchised youths who grew up with an acquisition complex as a result of their poverty.
Stripped of the basic things that you or I might have taken for granted in our childhoods, these men, almost none of whom had a father figure, cling to ideas of hyper-masculinity. They had nothing else to grasp to. But as they got older, they began to discover that the hyper-masculinity was actually a simulacra for something they were missing on a much deeper level. Many of these men began to react with rage expressed toward anyone who did not fit into their bubble of hyper-masculine behavior (namely, women and homosexuals). Eventually, the smarter set of these men realized that the outward misogyny (which I do find hard to stomach) was actually a sort of synechode for the disenfranchisement itself. And there is a sort of half-conscious understanding of that amongst artists by this point.
Also keep in mind that most of the roots of hip-hop come from Funk music (which had a large African pride contingent) and the words of Beatnik poetry from the likes of Black Panthers (at a point when the Panthers were not what they would later become).
These men are trauma survivors. They probably have pretty severe PTSD. I wouldn’t be surprised in a large number of them wet the bed into their teen years. The entire art form is about trying to put meaning to the suffering they went through.
Really, most of Gangster rap and modern Hip-Hop is…well, it’s like an extended version of the book of Job. It’s all about dealing with the problem of evil.
Is Obama going to let them insult his mamma that way? Do they not know that his momma is white? Hmmm. I’m sure granny would be proud, too.
Tehstupid, What a perfect name for you. See it’s kind of like when us on the right get the blame for that preacher who got caught having gay sex. Get used to it cuz there’s a lot more where this came from. Some of us are not on the Kumbaya bandwagon. We’ve been watching for the last eight years and now it’s time to give as good as we got.
It’s funny to read all the terrified and outraged comments here. None of this rap stuff matters at all, it’s just people having fun. Get a grip.
how exactly our these two men racist?
they are proud to finally have a black president- someone they can identify with and fully trust.
Blacks and other people of color have been oppressed and disenfranchised for ions by OUR GOVERNMENT… which SO HAPPENS to be Led by white.
Let them have their moment.
They didn't say they hated anyone,,except for maybe BUSH.,. but everyone HATES BUSH! not because he's white but he's a dishonorable man.
PS. JayZ's best friend is CHRIS MARTIN… the lead singer from COLDPLAY.. he's BRITISH & WHITE ! =)
Ndisilvestro – January 21st, 2009 at 11:57 am
Stuff like this is going to hurt Obama down the road, especially after the MSM honeymoon is over. I remember reading about Young Jeezy saying something like the Democrat party is the party of the streets. Yeah, its home to such gangsta’s like John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Jay Rockefeller, Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank. Actually I take Ted Kennedy back…unlike these frauds who just rap about killing someone, he actually has killed somebody.
Okay, now THAT was funny.
My father sent me this link. I am a fan of music. Hip-hop is of course included under the scope of sounds I find solace in. I really have never enjoyed rap or mass consumer radio fed pop-hop…the above video clip is two senators of the rap and pop-hop community providing them a public disservice.
Here are lyrics from a man who raps under the name Gift of Gab, his group is called Blackalicious – a beautiful example of a great role model for the hip hop community, black men, but moreover – creative human beings anywhere.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackalicious/makeyoufeelthatway.html
RE: Gianni Arone
YES.
Blackilicious in one of the most gripping live acts I’ve ever seen. (And I saw 26 other concerts the year I saw Blackilicious play).
I happen to be a white Republican, but I love Jay-Z and Young Jeezy. Hip-hop is what my generation grew up listening to and it’s what I’ve continued listening to into adulthood (I’m 27).
I agree the choice of song and lyrics were a bit inappropriate given the circumstances, but oh well.
No doubt it does show incredible hypocrisy from the left, but what else is new?
Wow Hunter D, You gave Jay-Z an IQ test? Did you guys compare reading lists or did he think you were a pretentious twit as well? But you keep rationalizing that misogyny. I’m sure the freshman girls dig it at the dorm. “These men have been traumatized”. That might be the funniest thing I’ve read here.
My son, Gianni, and I have been having a healthy discussion about the above article written by Andrew today.
I noticed he posted a link to the lyrics for Blackalicious. Here is a link to the video for ‘Make You Feel That Way’ which he was kind enough to send to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3orJqCr6Jv8
It was helpful for me to sink the lyrics up with the artist video for those of you who may be interested.
I love my son and appreciate him turning me on to something very cool today.
I also turned him on to Big Hollywood so I guess that makes us even.
I think you nailed it right here about the rappers Hunter D -
“I wouldn’t be surprised in a large number of them wet the bed into their teen years.”
And you get some sort of prize for using the word synecdoche (mispelled) in a blog comment.
You say you’re a college student ? Colour me surprised.
Eventually Michelle will slip up near a open mike and refer to someone as a mofo. Wonder how the MSM will blow that off?
They are truly showing their true colors. Filthy, Filthy, Filthy.
Wow, I thought at least Beyonce was a classy lady – what could she be thinking to marry that lame-o Jay Z??
I guess when Toby Kieth, Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams did similar stuff it was okay, I mean their “real americans”.
Hank Williams III that is…
“…There are 30 million black people in american…What exactly is the “black community”?…
Are you kidding? There’s no more monolithic community in America. They pride themselves on it. ‘The Daily Show’ even did a segment yesterday which had Tim Meadows (character was a businessman), JC Watts and Michael Steele as THE Black Republican Inauguration Ball. Why do you think Alfonzo Rachel stands out like he does?
Well let’s start with KRS-ONE and Afrika Bambaata then you will find out the origin of HipHop. And guess what, it started in the late 70’s! Very interesting read, white folk need to be up on this.
“There are 30 million black people in american…What exactly is the “black community” Im sure with 30 million different people it would be hard to find a single community response”
This is why I asked. I see Sharpton and Jackson who seem to speak for the black community much of the time. There are many others. So I’m assuming that no one in the black community disagrees with the message. The black community had a voice in voting for Prop 8 in California. Seems there are many that consider themselves part of the community.
the political parties flipped during the depression. You know that. Don’t play dumb.
“Those two goons just took the civil rights back 60 years”
No they didn’t because no one that can make a difference will care.
As far as they know, the only bad racism is the racism of white people…
Where’s Bill Cosby when you need him?
Hey Jay and Jeez, way to be crappy winners.
Classy.
But I guess that goes for all of your allies on the left.
Classless in defeat and worse when you’re on the winning end.
Those are two sorry n… ah African Americans. Congrats on two great role models!
Perhaps he meant monolithic in the sense that Djimon Hounsou could play the Monolith in a Broadway adaptation of 2001:A Space Odyssey The Musical
I’m not a rap hater. There are quite a few artists out there that are doing some cool stuff.
But this song is just a bad piece of music.
Lazy, throwaway track and stupid lyrics.
“they are proud to finally have a black president- someone they can identify with and fully trust.”
Actually, it is at least ethnocentric to trust a guy just because he is black.
“the political parties flipped during the depression. You know that. Don’t play dumb.”
Oh, okay. I guess that’s why Democrat marshalls and sheriffs were turning fire hoses on civil rights marchers. True, Johnson signed the legislation, but his own party members in the South fought him every step of the way.
Then Johnson pushed through the Great Society. We’ve seen how well that worked out. Where do you think those two generations of absent black fathers came from?
And now who’s telling everyone they must have Even Bigger Government to fix everything, because they’re not capable of doing so themselves?
The Democrats.
Gosh, what an inspiration to us all, black and white. The tolerance, the humility. Wow. I’m just so proud to me an American, knowing that people all over the world will see this and be as impressed as I am at the thoughtful and creative people who have supported our new president. Thanks and a big “shout out” to Jay-Z and Young Jeezy.
Jay-Z is trying desperately to become relevant again, I see. And I’m not sure who this other fella is.
Welcome to the post-racial world, everyone! Huzzah!
this is the most discusting display of ignorance i have seen in my life. people like this are what keep hate in the world. they need to finish reading the Lincoln Memorial . i am sick and i feel like america is in for a real shock. ghettoville here we come
On my bookshelf–which is to-die-for vintage–right now are dog-eared copies of “Fozzie Bear’s Big Book of Sidesplitting Jokes,” “The MAD Reader,” and five or six collections of Garfield comics. So, I’m not ignorant of humor.
My 3.5 grade-point average in general-education classes last semester obviously certifies me as an indisputable expert on great American art, and, robed in such authority, I pronounce conservatives of every stripe ignorant of the heartbreaking poetic artistry of hip-hop. (Which, as anyone who weekly peruses the insightful pages of “Rolling Stone” would know, is not synonymous with “rap.” “Rap” is simply the slave name enforced on the most groundbreaking African-American art form of the post-Jim Crow era by the stodgy caucasio-centric media establishment.) Hip-hop is a collective cry for equality and justice from the AIDS-wracked government ghettos. Opera such as “99 Problems” and “My President Is Black” are the ethnic equivalent of Ginsburg’s immortal “Howl”; Maya Angelou set to music liberally borrowed from other artists. I, for one, look forward to the day when a future president’s swearing-in will be officially commemorated with a ceremonial reading from Poet-Laureate Snoop Dogg.
Before you ancient, ill-read bumpkins question my assertions here and in subsequent missives, allow me to surreptitiously mention that I, myself, am a minority and thus insulated from criticism. As a bright, young one-quarter Laotian, one-quarter Blackfoot, one-quarter Palestinian, one-quarter Panamanian, I am acutely attuned to the anguish young African-American men go through while coming of age in the streets. I see them from my Bowles Hall window and commiserate in their fierce quest for understanding.
I admonish you not to misunderstand a magnificent contemporary form of introspective artistry and artistic self-expression for the crass commercialization of borderline-racist attitudes and misogyny or racial-grievance profiteering simply because modern-day bards like Jay-Z and Young Jeezy are fantastically wealthy celebrity idols to millions of impressionable young Americans.
Unfortunately, I cannot continue enlightening you because I have a Survey of Cultural Anthropology lecture to attend. Though I know none of you decrepit fossilized Klansmen will take my words of wisdom to heart, I have put forth my most sincerely impressive endeavor to expose you all as benighted racists desperately clinging to high-school diplomas and mason jars of moonshine.
Perhaps later–after The Colbert Report–I’ll actually open one of the great literary works lining my shelves and read it.
Just stumbled in…. Great blog. Had a discussion the other day about this very thing. Obama’s presidency will be marred by crap like this for a long time. It’s too bad.
Problem is, many (not all)black people under 50 feel they are owed something for what blacks were put through in the 60s and earlier, yet they don’t take the time to understand what the struggle was about AND that their struggle helped to shape this country as well. That point is sorely missed. bottom line-you have to work to get what you want. Because those people went through what they did, we have the ABILITY to do what ever it is we want, just like anybody else. Now, if there are those who don’t feel they have what they should, then it’s morely likely they don’t want to work for it.
I took some flak ’cause I didn’t vote for Obama. I just couldn’t bring myself to vote for a man to help him make history – especially when I don’t agree with his views. Lots of people think he will pull them “out of it”. Lots of people will be upset- oh, wait! I forgot, that’ll be Bush’s fault, too….
For all you who say and think that what is going on here is racism, or reverse racism or whatever- you are right, don’t apologize for it. I don’t think we all need to have “converstions” about it. It is what it is. Dems seem to want that about everything, yet it does no good.
I don’t care how educated you claim to be, racism is racism. You can turn a blind eye like a lot of people do. You can dress up your explanation with your intellect of words and it doesn’t change the fact that this so called artist is a racist.
Further more onto your subject of minority. I believe in this country that whites are now the minority. Look around honestly just look around.
Giving people like this an excuse to be racist is wrong and I don’t care what you say. Its an art ok, but not of good things. Its an art of RACIST antics and shame comes to mind when I hear it. Respectable American people just don’t act that way. You didn’t hear white members of our society make remarks in that manner at each presidential change in power. No you didn’t.
It completely disgust me that I and my fellow respectable American have to share our beautiful Nation with morons and imbeciles. Lastly RACISM will never leave our country as long as people like you give them an audience and the power to be disrespectful.
@Joan of Argghh!
Not all black American believe or even listen to rap music. I know; I’m one of them.
ALEX LOTT @ 10:33 am
Heavy, man, heavy.
http://hiphopfrequency.com
This song is actually a celebration of an event that we (people of all races) would never see. For those of you that are disgusted by the language you hear on this clip probably dont like hiphop. Thats your choice just as it is their choice to celebrate in the way they see Fit.
‘Only in America’
HipHop is Alive
HIPHOP IS ALIVE @5:46 am
With respect, I disagree.
You state: “This song is actually a celebration of an event that we (people of all races) would never see.”
I believe, President Obama and his wife Michelle, for that matter, would find the above song/performance by JAY-Z and Young Jeezy an embarrassment and dismiss it outright.
This is what celebration looks and sounds like on such an historic day in our country? No thanks. These people should be ashamed of themselves.
Yes, it’s their choice, however, millions of Americans who both support the president and the loyal opposition, are watching closely and behavior such as this will only hurt the man at the end of the day.
In closing, I sometimes wish a few of the so-called artists of today would go back and check out a man like Gil Scott-Heron, who seemed to ‘do his work while keeping his integrity in the process’
http://www.gilscottheron.com/lyrevol.html
ALEX LOTT,
I have to agree with Jimmy. Your post was spot on. Though I must say your post was intentionally funny, while Hunter managed to be funny without even trying. You must admit he has managed to be educated well beyond the capacity of his intellect. I am most impressed. He may very well one day go on to be the next Nancy Pelosi. Here’s to dreaming big.
Album cover’s amazing too.
i like the vid to prom queen as for this version straight garbage bad post
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