Ben Carson has addressed his Rap advertisement, TMZ reports.
The site says that during a promotional stop in Miami, the Republican presidential candidate referred to the 60-second radio spot that features Atlanta rapper Aspiring Mogul as the “Rap thing.”
Carson continues that in order to attempt to reach Black voters, as was the mission of the original ad, he “probably would have taken a little different approach.”
(This story was first updated November 5, 2015 and is as follows.)
Talib Kweli spoke with The Washington Post about his thoughts on Ben Carson’s Rap advertisement. He says he is not impressed with the ad because it is not a real Rap.
“There were no lyrics,” the Brooklyn, New York rapper says of the song, performed by Atlanta rapper Aspiring Mogul. “Just random statements. ‘Carson’ doesn’t even really rhyme with ‘awesome.'”
Kweli says that the ad is not a good way to complete the presidential candidate’s objective of reaching Black voters.
“The most effective way for Ben Carson to reach out to young black voters is to actually care about other Black people, which Ben Carson has proven to be incapable of,” Kweli says. “When you say things like ‘Obamacare is the worst thing that’s happened to America since slavery‘ and describe the youth-driven Black Lives Matter as ‘sickening’ and accuse them of ‘bullying’ people, who cares about your Rap ad?”
(This story was first published today [November 5] at 10:30 a.m. PST and is as follows.)
Presidential candidate Ben Carson has created a radio advertisement featuring music from Atlanta rapper Aspiring Mogul, ABC reports.
The 60-second ad features a speech from the Republican intertwined with Aspiring Mogul’s lyrics.
“Vote and support Ben Carson / For our next president and be awesome,” Aspiring Mogul raps.
“America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians,” Carson says over the boom-bap beat, “but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation and that’s what will get us on track right now. I’m very hopeful that I’m not the only one who’s willing to pick up the baton of freedom because freedom is not free and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it because we are fighting for our children and the next generation.”
Carson’s campaign team spent $150,000 on the ad, which will air for two weeks on radio stations in Miami; Atlanta; Houston; Detroit; Birmingham, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Per ABC, Carson’s representatives say the candidate is seeking to reach Black voters by “reaching out and talking to them in a language that they prefer and in a language that, and in a cultural format that they appreciate.”
An “artist” from Atlanta of all places. Typical.
He will actually be a better president than Obama. If you agree with Talib that he doesn’t care about black people, then maybe it’s you who really needs to evaluate your life
You are 100% correct.
give at least one example of Carson caring for black people. just one and you win. can you provide it?????????????????????????????????????????
Ben Carson better fix this school system if he’s president. give black kids an equal opportunity to get a good education like the kids in Carmel Indiana. We can’t have these segregated schools and expect our futures to be safe. equality is the path of the future. with out team work we will forever bring each other down. Ben Carson or who ever wins needs to fix U.S.
f ben carson.. he also said he doesn’t believe a Muslim should be president because he believes they would choose religious values over the constitution. Yet we are suposed to be a secular nation and his Christian values justify many of his stances such as abortion. Not to mention after whites said the same thing about a black man for the last 100 years. Trump more real than this clown.
Wrong.
Taliban continuing to show his lack of intelligence as usual, saying Ben Carson doesn’t care about black people. Ben Carson is the only candidate running who is pushing black Americans to stop relying on the government and go out and get theirs. If you are against that, you are a moron and a slave to the government. Democrats have been the greatest oppressors of minorities for decades.
It is a shame that majority of Blacks will only support the Dummycrat party all because they have been brainwashed to rely on the government to take care of them. In fact our values are more in line with conservative values. We are in this place due to ignorance. We allow the government to call us minorities which means minor. We support abortion and cant give a moral reason for killing babies.
you lost with that generalization, right there. plenty of blacks vote democrat and want absolutely nothing to do with the government. you see, who brainwashed you into that statement? statements like that alone, prohibit republicans from reaching young blacks. well, except for the ones like Ben Carson with self-hatred and low self esteem.
Doesn’t matter if you vote republican or democrat their two sides of the same coin. Ben’s a smart guy academically but he’s not socially conscious at all dismissing blk lives matter not respecting his roots an supporting Israel. Vote for a 3rd party candidate or don’t vote at all as way to protests electing another warmonger.. Abortions help contol the people population. I wish people cared more about the babies already here…. Peace out there
He can separate conjoined twins but he can’t separate fact from fiction. he thinks the world is 5,000 years old and the Noah’s Ark story is literally true. We need someone smarter than the “average American.”
yo talib, Obamacare does not help the black community. It helps people who are already middle class but don’t have access to quality insurance (so you cold even argue it was made for whites and not blacks). Blacks are still on welfare health insurance.
Oh shut up Talib. Just because he sees black issues from a different angle from you, one where they can rise up and overcome by being self accountable instead of blaming white people, doesn’t mean he is incapable of caring about them. In fact, he has probably recommended strategies that would prove more effective for bettering the state o the black community than you have. All I ever see on Talib Kweli’s Twitter is “white privilege” this, “black lives matter” that. None of that will ever actually cause more black people to get ahead. It will just make them bitter at whites, which is kind of counter productive to social progress, don’t you think?
oh, Talib struck a nerve, huh? now, all of a sudden Carson wants to reach minorities? in his history, i don’t that he has ever done anything for any black that wasn’t paid for. so blacks should just rise up and be accountable? with what infrastructure? blacks own virtually nothing and have no financial resources. unless, you want to consider the natural resources that was stolen from Africa. FOH. He has proven to be no more that a self hating uncle tom that continually belittle’s his people for whitey. the irony is, he is actually a product of the welfare system that he hates so much. similar to ben, you lack the empathy and understanding of “black lives matter”. face it bro, you are a white supremacist. by the way, I am middle eastern, I don’t give a damn about any ethnicity. I only care about what’s right and what’s wrong.
Damn shame
People who say republicans are better than democrats are stupid because they are just generalizing every issue into 2 sides. the reason things don’t work is because everybody wants to look like the genius and “told you so” cool guy. in reality the issues america has is not going to be solved by this primitive thinking. red vs blue turns politics into a reality show and people are not getting better we are just continuing a cycle of confusion and mistrust. I wish I lived in a country that compiled all of the information about a particular problem. Made concrete and accurate observations and allowed the public to know the facts about what’s going on instead of a bunch of politicians journalist and news anchors trying to persuade people to chose red or blue. If every presidential candidate presented their political plans with charts and graphs and simple ways to execute their ideas nobody would be voting for people that have never been in politics. Politicians never fully explain their plans so the public is always confused and bias. I want facts not a rap song saying “support me please” or a commercial saying “Rubio didn’t pay his bills on time” I want a president that tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth. There are too many people even in politics that don’t understand how to run a country or state. I’ve seen and heard things about politics that make them no more credible than a homeless man. Everybody has there ideas and dreams but if there are no facts then we will not fix the future we will blindly keep running in a direction that could lead to a cliff.
It’s great to see Talib speaking out against personal responsibility, hard work, creativity and innovation.
Run that that ipod Ben. You’ll find a gang of James Taylor, a touch of Stevie. Definitely some Beyonce.
You down with GOP? You down with GOP? Who’s down with GOP? Every last whitey!
Ben Carson compares government that helps the poor and disenfranchised to slave masters but it was the federal government that ended slavery while corporations wanted slavery to continue. Ben Carson joined the political party that places Wall Street greed above the working poor and disenfranchised. Wall Street has never wanted equal opportunity and distribution of wealth.
It has nothing to do with the party, and everything to do with the candidate. The Wall street candidates are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
It has nothing to do with the party, and everything to do with the candidate. The two Wall Street candidates are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
All I can think of is Talib Saying in a verse.. I know the people need us but rappers just ain’t the right leaders, so I don’t know why he has room to give advice when he admits that he can’t help the situation himself..
So this dude is black and he’s supposed to just cater to the black people? Naw he knows white people have to vote for him too look at Obama you think he got in office on the “black vote” GTFOH lol
with out the black vote Obama wouldn’t have won… Itsdarealstupid doesn’t understand how voting works.
Fuck Ben Carson. How insulting is that ad? This fake bitch don’t even realize 99% of black people won’t be voting in that republican primary because black people generally aren’t republicans. He’s a scumbag that’s been in a bubble the last 30 years. If George Bush didn’t care about black people Ben Carson fucking hates us. Eat A Dick Carson, preferably Trumps.
Black Ox you should lower your horns! Ben Carson is a christian man and he has his beliefs in this country just as many that have came before him but to compare him to George Bush is a fallacy. Ben Carson is nothing like JEB. Republican means you don’t agree with most Democrats. The Republican party is still trying to figure out what their actual positions are so we can’t even fairly judge these candidates. All the Republicans do is Deny change. This why they are called Conservative. Ben Carson will not run the White house like any other President in history HE IS AN OUTSIDER. People say they don’t even know if he wants to win or just improve his brand. This nigga took a break from the CAMPAIGN to sign books. I guess he could be serious but we still don’t know enough to fully judge him @ Black Ox
Democratic Socialist – It has nothing to do with the party, and everything to do with the candidate. The two Wall Street candidates are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
Unlike Ben Carson and the rest of the GOP, Hillary Clinton supports putting federal regulations in place to keep Wall Street corruption in check to prevent repeating the same economic collapses that took place sparking the Great Depressions in 1929 and 2008. The biggest economic collapses that America experienced were during republican presidencies. With that said, I still support Bernie Sanders over Hillary.
@Bro, while that’s true Hillary still supports federal regulation of Wall Street greed, while Ben Carson and the rest of the republicans do not. Under George W Bush those regulations were removed which led to Wall Street crimes of greed which then led to the economic collapse of 2008. The biggest economic collapses that America experienced were caused by Wall Street and during republican presidencies. With that said, I still support Bernie Sanders over Hillary.
“Under George W Bush those regulations were removed which led to Wall Street crimes of greed” – Bullshit. All of the regulation disappeared under Billy Clinton when he repealed the Glass-Steagall Act. Bush was a dumb asshole, but bank deregulation was all Billy boy Clinton.
I like Bernie too. I also like Carson. I wish they could make some beautiful babies.
Hilary will get our ass beat by Putin or Jinping. You think the world doesn’t respect/fear Obama. They will Test Hilary’s will. She’s a coward.
Democratic Socialist – “Under George W Bush those regulations were removed which led to Wall Street crimes of greed” – Bullshit. All of the regulation disappeared under Billy Clinton when he repealed the Glass-Steagall Act. Bush was a dumb asshole, but bank deregulation was all Billy boy Clinton.
I like Bernie too. I also like Carson. I wish they could make some beautiful babies.
bro ben carson would be shitty if he knew you said that gay ass shit about him
Weak sauce Allah Talib Kweli should had a verse
Ben Carson is a Black Racist, send him to Africa.