What's Going On In The News Today? A News Rap-up (volume 1)

March 29, 2008. Posted by Simon Rentner.

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Beatboxer, hip-hopper, and jazz musician Baba Israel takes a look at what's going on in the world today with this news rap-up.
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Mortgage Crisis
Mobile devices
Iphones entice us
While gas prices rise and bust
I be mobile through the text and the vocal
While my car stays local
Because we in the economic choke hold
The battle of the haves and the have nots
While Bush boasts of job growth
Is that data that he invents?
Economic expansion is only 4.2 percent
Did he really lie?
It is the worst percent until 1945
Now working folks, you know we need a fair turn
But we losing money just like Bear Sterns
While the US dollar falls
The Rockets soared in Texas
And got shot down by the Celtics
After St. Patties Day
And a rocket still soared a world away
Now 4,000 US soldiers died
5 years into the war is history
And Bush is still promising victory?
It sounds like mad hype
While rappers spit about the fast life
Spitzer falls from grace
And now Ashley's blowing up on MySpace
As the presidential race gets hit with low blows
Ferraro playing the race card solo
Saying Obama is on the map because he's black, not equipped
And if he was a woman we wouldn't have a chance now that's legit
Clinton distancing in an instance to a different tune
It's a woman verse the black man
McCain verse himself now
Who can keep the pace, who can keep the pace?
Obama responds with a historical speech on race
And earns Richardson's respect now
With more Latino votes he collect
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