It appears the thought of Bernie Sanders listening to Dark Man X in his spare time was too good to be true.
A few days ago, a video of Sanders triumphantly walking out to DMX’s hit 2003 single, “Where the Hood At?” during a political rally in California went viral but the video’s curator has revealed to Billboard that it was simply a result of computer shenanigans.
Edwin Lacuna released a full statement, blaming the video’s success of people being gullible on the Internet.
“Standing in the crowd waiting for Senator Sanders can lead to daydreaming, and it did just that. It started with thinking how funny it would be if I edited a video to make it seem as if Bernie walked out to DMX, but after waiting a bit longer, I decided I’d turn it into a social experiment.”
“Everyone seems to be very easily fooled by anything they see on the Internet. On one end we have a majority of the Twitter community going crazy and some going as far as even saying they’re ‘switching allegiances’ and ‘I was never going to vote but this just changed my mind’ to some people in the LGBT community saying they knew all along that Bernie Sanders is a ‘gay basher’ and to be honest, if I wanted that to be the message the song would have started completely different. Instead, what we hear is ‘Where the hood at?’ At the end of it all, I wanted to show the world that politics are not something to fool around with and to prove it, I faked this video.”
“Bernie has always made it a point that the youth needs to get more involved in the political process, and as funny as it may be that DMX’s ‘Where the Hood At?’ might have swayed them into doing so, it’s still very disappointing at the same time. I’ve observed each candidate very closely, and regardless of what people may think of Bernie Sanders and their stance politically, there’s no denying he is a man of the people, and there is more than enough evidence to prove that. With all that being said, I hope everyone realizes that we still live in the real world, not the Internet.”
The fake video pleased DMX nonetheless, who told Billboard via email, “When God shows up he shows out.”
(This article was last updated on May 27, 2016 @ 7:15 pm EST.)
It’s looking pretty impossible that the next president will be as Hip Hop savvy as President Barack Obama, who said his favorite song of 2015 was Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost” and gave Oval Office advice to presidential hopeful Kanye West.
Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders flexed a little street knowledge Wednesday (May 25) at a rally in Lancaster, California when he walked out to DMX‘s “Where The Hood At?” a cut from 2003’s Grand Champ.
Although the Ruff Ryders MC has not publicly shared his pick for president, Sanders has gotten support from Lil B, Killer Mike and Rae Sremmurd.
The Senator is running against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Whoever wins that will most likely face Donald Trump, who leads the polls in the Republican party.
Watch the video of Bernie Sanders walking out to DMX’s “Where The Hood At?” Below:
Nice
What a joke US politics are. The most powerful country in the world…
I love DMX but how are you gonna walk out to a song that has the lyrics of “Last I heard, y’all niggaz was havin sex, with the SAME sex/I show no love, to homo thugs/Empty out, reloaded and throw more slugs/How you gonna explain fuckin a man?” and think it’s a good idea to gain votes…
Came here to post the very same thing. Bernie should have asked Big Boi & Killer Mike to do a song for him at the start of the campaign.
He chose the wrong DMX song. Since he is the underdog, he should have come out to: Bring It! What? We Right Here/We’re not goin anywhere We right here!
pandering…
Politics get worse and worse every 4 years….. the bar goes lower and lower you got hillary claiming she jams out to beyonces lemonade and now we got bernie hunching his way out to the dog just a buncha pandering trying to nab votes absoltuely pathetic if politicians spent as much time on actualy making policy changing this country reforming or laws and restructuring our economy as they spend on trying to keep there jobs and gain voter approvals this country would be a paradise
Feel the bern bitches. Grrrrrr.
I ain’t a greedy nigga, All I want is a 5 year run, if I don’t make then fuck it let me die near a gun.
Bernie must be suckin on that glass dick too
Trump is the best!
Please die or something.
Aiyyo, ya niggaz must be outcha fuckin mind
Thinkin dog can’t pull another motherfuckin rabbit out the hat
Nigga I ain’t gotta check out my motherfuckin sleeves you bitch ass niggaz
Fuck is y’all niggaz…
Y’all niggaz just thinkin I’m sittin around doin nothin?
Oh my God, y’all niggaz can’t be serious
And another misleading headline from the great journalist Victoria Hernandez. HipHopdx do everybody a favour a drop her from this site! How is he ruff riding with DMX? he only played his song….
I’m dying laughing over this, what is this the WWE? He was the best of a shitty field IMO though
Soo…. the best 3 candidates in the country to lead it are a lying piece of crap racist with the worst hairpiece ever, a lying piece of garbage who is riding the coattails of her husband and has no skill of her own, and an old man who is dominating the young black vote but chooses to come out to DMX instead of Earth, Wind, and Fire. Cmon Bern. You are losing the old head black vote and ain’t no damn 70 year old black dude represent an Albert Einstein lookin cat coming out to Dark Man X. I need to leave this country.
Except that this was a HOAX. He never walked out to the song, the video was edited. But thanks for doing another smear job on Bernie misleading the masses about a social justice HERO!! He was ALWAYS there for us (LGBT) since many decades, not just a couple years ago when it was politically convenient like CIinton. You can see the real video here, where Bernie walks out to only cheers, not the DMX song: https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders/status/736609740927688704
Dx takes another L
Not at all…
A yuge L!!! Sanders sucks bad. Why vote for a socialist???
A yuge L!!! Sanders sucks bad. Why vote for a socialist???
A yuge L!!! Sanders sucks bad. Why vote for a socialist???
…the video’s creator Edwin Lacuna, in correspondence with Billboard, has confirmed that the video was in fact edited. In his statement, Acuna admits that he “started with thinking how funny it would be” and only later decided to “turn it into a social experiment.”
I thought it seemed fake because that was the explicit version and the people was looking unbothered when X said last I heard yall was having sex with the same sex lol
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Bernie Sanders applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War; his application was eventually turned down, by which point he was too old to be drafted. The CO’s during that war were “Draft dodgers.” Many fled to Canada or to the New England countryside. Those of us who served in the military regard CO’s as cowards. But, as president he would have no problem sending your son or daughter to war.
Actually, Bernie has objected to and voted against unnecessary wars like Iraq. War would the absolute LAST resort if he gets elected. Plus, although anti-war, he is one of the few politicians that actually cares about our veterans.
The reason this story is so wild is because it could be true. No candidate other than Sanders could walk out to DMX. He’s talking about the issues, and the issue is justice. Financial justice, political justice and true criminal justice.