Al Gore's ipod playlist
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Anyone else find some of these quotes really bizaare. Note in 2000, hip hop activists and conscious hip hop heads sent letters to Gore for his repeated claim that Hip hop was damaging to youth. People wrote to him saying that some rappers like Mos Def are actually really politically and socially aware in songs and call on kids to get politically aware and become activists. His response at that time was a silly formal letter that most likely was written by one of his aides. I doubt he had ever listened to mos Def before.
Anyways heres some of his quotes and favorite songs:
Track Two: Gone Going, by Black Eyed Peas
"I love this music and the feeling this song gives me, and I love the message about materialism. I also love the fact that the Black Eyed Peas wrote such a great song and wrapped it around a hook that comes from Jack Johnson, who is one of my all-time favorite songwriters and singers. Johnson's gift with poetry has inspired Black Eyed Peas to echo in this song the message of his original song, 'Gone'."
Track 5: Umi Says, by Mos Def
"I like both the message and the music. I like it even more because of the integrity that this artist brings to everything he does."
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I like Jack Johnson too, but to here a nearly 60 year old white man saying those things about Jack and about Mos Def is kinda scary
Anyone else find some of these quotes really bizaare. Note in 2000, hip hop activists and conscious hip hop heads sent letters to Gore for his repeated claim that Hip hop was damaging to youth. People wrote to him saying that some rappers like Mos Def are actually really politically and socially aware in songs and call on kids to get politically aware and become activists. His response at that time was a silly formal letter that most likely was written by one of his aides. I doubt he had ever listened to mos Def before.
Anyways heres some of his quotes and favorite songs:
Track Two: Gone Going, by Black Eyed Peas
"I love this music and the feeling this song gives me, and I love the message about materialism. I also love the fact that the Black Eyed Peas wrote such a great song and wrapped it around a hook that comes from Jack Johnson, who is one of my all-time favorite songwriters and singers. Johnson's gift with poetry has inspired Black Eyed Peas to echo in this song the message of his original song, 'Gone'."
Track 5: Umi Says, by Mos Def
"I like both the message and the music. I like it even more because of the integrity that this artist brings to everything he does."
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I like Jack Johnson too, but to here a nearly 60 year old white man saying those things about Jack and about Mos Def is kinda scary
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