Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Rapper Common's White House Performance Draws Criticism

 Hip-hop to attack the White House, and rapper Common just named as one of the performers at a ceremony in honor of American poetry on Wednesday (May 11).
Do you love the original Chicago Gil Scott-Elizabeth Alexander, and Alison Knowles includes poetry inspired by the day.
This event will be hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, also includes a workshop for students in the afternoon. The common will attend a seminar, at a time later in the evening.
His appearance has caused controversy among some pages from the wing right-wing politician who wrote the poems from his office filled with violence, and even labeling him "gangster rapper."
Republican Fox News website, Mr. rapper, born Lonnie Rashid Lynn, "timid," pointing to the words of one of his poems, "Letter to the law," as evidence. In part, on HBO Def Poetry Jam again in 2007, and treats diseases common in communities that suffer from poverty, police brutality as it relates to the political climate of America. One of the lines the most controversial in the poem, when former President Bush rebukes and questions the motives of the war in the Middle East.

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