Hip Hop Artists Mobilize for Obama
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Examines Hip Hop community's role in electing Barack Obama to President of the United Stat
The series finale examines the role Hip Hop artists played electing Barack Obama to President of the United States. Also examines Young Jeezy's song, My President is Black as an homage to this historical moment. Featuring artists P Diddy and Jay-Z in archival interviews as well as new sit-downs with Chuck D, Killer Mike, Ice-T, Fat Joe, MC Lyte and academic Dr. Kaye Whitehead.
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Hip Hop Artists Mobilize for Obama
Clip: Episode 4 | 3m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
The series finale examines the role Hip Hop artists played electing Barack Obama to President of the United States. Also examines Young Jeezy's song, My President is Black as an homage to this historical moment. Featuring artists P Diddy and Jay-Z in archival interviews as well as new sit-downs with Chuck D, Killer Mike, Ice-T, Fat Joe, MC Lyte and academic Dr. Kaye Whitehead.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) (crowd cheers) - And so he had this mobilization of hip hop artists begin to flock to his side.
- This is beautiful to me.
This is the thing that they don't understand.
We're honored.
We came out here to see you guys personally.
- I think about Jay-Z, I think about Puff, Vote or Die.
What better commercial could you have?
It's comparable to The Beatles campaigning for you.
- Something that I never felt before, I can feel, you can feel, our children can feel.
Don't take it for granted, y'all.
Things are about to change.
- It was a whole new way of hip hop really getting involved in getting people out to vote and getting people registered to vote.
(dramatic music) - [Reporter] Decision day at least.
- [Reporter] Turn out is huge.
Queuing time is up to five hours.
- Go Barack!
- [Bystander] Woo!
- My daughter was of voting age.
She voted, I voted, and then my dad and my mom voted for the same person.
(crowd chattering overlaps) - [Reporter] Huge numbers of these people have never voted before.
(dramatic music) (crowd chattering indistinctly) - People have died and fought for us to have this right and so to exercise this right today is like giving back to Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and everybody that fought for us to have this right to vote.
We not gonna vote to nobody just 'cause they Black, you know?
We're voting for him 'cause he's the best candidate.
Yeah!
(witness laughing) It does feel good that we finally have somebody that's actually qualified that's given a chance.
(dramatic music continues) - Woo!
- Thank you.
- I love you.
- Love you guys, thank you.
- You're the man!
- Thank you.
(uplifting music) - [CNN Reporter] CNN can now project the president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama.
♪ My president is Black ♪ (crowd cheering) ♪ My Lambo's blue ♪ ♪ And I'll be (censored) if my rims ain't too ♪ ♪ My rims ain't too ♪ ♪ My mama ain't at home and Daddy's still in jail ♪ ♪ Tryna make a play, anybody seen the (censored), yo ♪ ♪ My president is Black ♪ - Obama is the first hip hop president.
♪ My rims ain't too ♪ ♪ My rims ain't too ♪ ♪ My money's light green ♪ - [Ice-T] The generation that grew up on hip hop, they voted Obama in.
♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ Today was a good day ♪ - So there has been a changing of the guard, for the better.
♪ Mr. Black President ♪ (crowd cheering) ♪ Yo, Obama for real ♪ ♪ They gotta put your face on the $5,000 bill ♪ ♪ My president is Black ♪ ♪ My Lambo's blue, blue ♪ ♪ And I'll be (censored) if my ♪ - It brought tears to my eyes and I remember going to the club that night and they kept playing that Jeezy.
♪ My president is Black ♪ ♪ My uh-da ♪ ♪ My Lambo's blue ♪ - [Fat Joe] All night.
♪ Tell him I'm doin' fine, Obama for mankind ♪ ♪ We ready for (censored) change, so y'all let the man shine ♪ ♪ Stuntin' on Martin Luther, feelin' just like a king ♪ ♪ Guess this is what he meant ♪ ♪ When he said that he had a dream ♪ ♪ My president is Black ♪ (crowd cheering) ♪ My Lambo's blue, blue ♪ - Rap is a lightning rod, man.
It connected that energy to be able to say, "Barack Obama, yes.
It's your time."
(crowd cheering)
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