Comments on: Pop Culture and the Right: Can Mainstream Conservatives Stop Embarassing Themselves?

By: Jeremiah Whitmoore

Jeremiah Whitmoore — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:15:34 +0000

John Reuben is a quite successful Christian rapper whose lyrics can easily be classified as “paleocon.” He is definitely not a fan of movement conservatism or modern leftism, and he’s far and above anything I’ve heard on Top-40 radio.

By: Dropping Dimes With Edmund Burke « Around The Sphere

Dropping Dimes With Edmund Burke « Around The Sphere — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:03:41 +0000

[...] George Hawley The conservative movement knows that it has a problem with young voters. Specifically, they have no young voters. The Young Cons, or any similar group, will not help. Hip-hop will never be a good medium for promoting supply-side economics – or any other Republican buzzword these tools will ever want to advance. BET and the GOP are not natural allies. A disingenuous rap song explaining that Martin Luther King was “really a conservative” (which is simply not true, by the way) will not change that essential fact. [...]

By: E.D. Kain

E.D. Kain — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:15:11 +0000

I should say – conservatives need to stop approaching art in this absurdly obvious ideological manner. If you want to make conservative art, first it has to be good art. Take Gibson’s Apocalypto for example. That’s steeped in good, localist, anti-statist themes but it is first and foremost a good story, a good film, etc.

By: E.D. Kain

E.D. Kain — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:12:16 +0000

Oh good lord. No it is not clever or good rap. It’s really, really god-awful bad rap, and it’s not even half clever. Conservatives need to stop doing things to be conservative. Not to mention that if you really want to promote conservative values why even bother with the medium that is hip-hop? Why not dig through the treasure trove of tradition? Old art, old music…

By: Dan Cleary

Dan Cleary — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:54:02 +0000

Two things:

1) Thanks for the link.
2) Let’s keep things in perspective here. It’s a fun, clever rap video that promotes conservative values. That’s why conservatives like it, I think. The music itself is as good (or bad) as anything else out there.