Rapper Tells Truth About Obama, Kicked Off Stage

This is good to hear. Rapper Lupe Fiasco was performing at an inaugural concert when he decided to tell the truth about Obama's anti-peace militarism and foreign interventions. I wish more entertainers held this sort of principle. Most just talk bad about Republicans (rightly so, many times) and then are completely silent whenever a Democrat is in office. Not so with Lupe:

Although Fiasco was booked as the headliner for the StartUp RockOn concert in celebration of Obama's reelection, the 30-year-old Chicago rapper apparently had no plans to cheer the current administration. Instead, after taking the stage at The Hamilton in Washington, he reportedly announced that he didn't vote for the president in the 2012 election and spent more than 30 minutes performing an anti-war song.

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My favorite band is Pearl Jam, and they were vocal critics of war while Bush was in office, but have fallen completely silent since 2009, mysteriously. They used to take time out of each concert to talk about how bad the Patriot Act is, how bad the Iraq war is, how terrorism is just a boogeyman, etc, etc, etc. I thought it was great stuff. Suddenly, in 2009, apparently all of those problems went away, because they've been completely silent on those issues.

I'm glad this rapper had the courage to stick to principles and I wish more people in the pop culture would do the same.