I haven’t read watched the interview yet…what’s the over/under on the number of times he said “man”?
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tells TMZ that his favorite songs of all-time are NWA’s Straight Outta Compton, Eminem’s Lose Yourself, and Tupac’s Killuminati.
ruemara
Is the Onion now sending out actors to these interviews, because this is straight up satire.
Cacti
I have a feeling that Ice Cube is not a reciprocal fan of Marco Rubio.
Narcissus
He has never heard any of those songs.
BGinCHI
Cue the CPAC seminar on “colored music.”
MomSense
@ruemara:
The Republicans are totally ruining satire. I honestly can’t tell the difference sometimes.
Keith G
Hey, Obama likes shooting shit. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Tonal Crow
Wait! I thought the problem with gun violence wasn’t the guns or the violence, but the music and the video games? FSM it’s so hard to keep up with Republican “thought” these days.
Cassidy
Well, those were easy picks. Any self respecting white kid from the 90’s knows those. Follow-up should have been ot name his favorite albums by those guys.
Shrillhouse
@Narcissus: Simple way to check: ask Rubio if he’d like to meet Eazy E someday…
Jewish Steel
@Cassidy: Or maybe even better, why he likes those songs?
Hill Dweller
Poser
Omnes Omnibus
@Shrillhouse: I would like to meet Joe Strummer someday – and Otis Redding – I just ain’t counting on it happening.
Cacti
@Tonal Crow:
Someone should ask him what he thinks of the Ice Cube song gangsta rap made me do it.
Since he’s an NWA fan and all.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Why doesn’t he also admit that he liked Cop Killer? Maybe he could talk about being Miami’s OG.
Forum Transmitted Disease
I appreciate the effort to reach out to the late thirties/early forties white Gen-X demographic, but really, he ought to be focusing his energies elsewhere.
gordon schumway
Is Scarface his favorite movie?
PeakVT
NWA’s Straight Outta Compton
Dude needs to work on his lying. That’s not even close to believable.
Certified Mutant Enemy
If Obama ever admitted to liking a NWA song, the Fox “News” outrage machine would go into overdrive…
kdaug
Oh, god, next he’ll be tweeting “l33tsp3@k”.
Turn your ballcap backwards – it’s over.
ETA: Somehow the l-word above triggered a mailto: link. Fitting.
Omnes Omnibus
@PeakVT: Maybe saying he is down with OPP (yeah, you know me) would work better?
gordon schumway
Do he have a poster of Rottweiler puppies in the trunk of a Benz?
Cassidy
@kdaug: Oh I wish. I’ll take a backwards cap over the 3 sizes too big for your head any day of the week.
Hunter Gathers
Am I supposed to be impressed with some square’s knowledge of popular music from the late 20th century? Does he get a cookie now?
Omnes Omnibus
@Hunter Gathers:
If you are handing out cookies, I would like one. Please and thank you.
srv
Well, he doesn’t say that in the interview excerpt at TMZ, but his points on Tupac vs all the new stuff is quite erudite.
Bulworth
“What rap/hip hop artists do you listen to?”
“All of ’em!”
Waynski
So a United States Republican Senator likes an album that includes a song called “F&%$ the Police”. Uh huh.
Felanius Kootea
He once did an interview on why Tupac was better than Biggie, so this is nothing new.
kdaug
@Bulworth: Win.
Cassidy
@Hunter Gathers: Naw, man. He gets some baby bottle pops.
Comrade Dread
Look, they’ve got nothing else. They’re not going to meaningfully address immigration reform. They won’t address racial profiling by police. They won’t address drug policy reform. They won’t address sentencing disparity guidelines.
They think the real racism is affirmative action or calling someone who makes a racist statement a racist.
They’re trying to gut the Voting Rights Act so they can more easily stop the blah people from voting.
Really, the only possible minority outreach they have left is for rich men in suits to say, “The GOP isn’t just for old white dudes, my… homies… I too enjoy your people’s musical stylings… such as… the hip hop… and the rap music. I am cool. Vote for me, slightly darker colored human creatures.”
Omnes Omnibus
@srv: @Felanius Kootea: I know conservatives who are fans of Billy Bragg and a number of other flaming lefties from the punk era. The Bragg thing is the one that really cracks me up though.
Paul in KY
@Jewish Steel: I’d like to hit him with some of the more provacative lyrics in those songs. Alright for us to like them, we’re godless hippies.
However, a pure-in-heart Republican is not supposed to. Would be fun watching him sqirm.
ranchandsyrup
How to connect with the youth = “liking” hip hop acts from the 80’s, 90’s and early 00’s? Shoot, even Cantor is doing this better than Rubio. Cantor said he liked Wiz Khalifa.
Bokonon
Watch the right wing media start spinning this as demonstrating Rubio’s “authenticity” and his appeal to young voters. The same way that they did when Ryan did his Led Zeppelin shout out during the GOP convention.
Countdown in 3, 2, 1 …
jrg
Wasn’t it McCain that said he liked NIN a few years ago, and had to walk it back?
I want to f*** you like an animal… A confused, angry, geriatric animal, with limited mobility.
hells littlest angel
Cut tha motherfuckin budget, man. Ya know, Fuck Tha Police.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I made you a cookie, but I eated it
max
I want to f*** you like an animal…
‘I want to to f*** you like I’m having a seizure in my scooter…’
what’s the over/under on the number of times he said “man”?
Dude! He is the Great Offwhite Hope.
max
[‘They’re repainting the party in Wheat & Bone.’]
Forum Transmitted Disease
@Paul in KY: I dunno. I think they’d be down with some of the lyrics that definitely endorse the exercise of one’s Second Amendment rights:
Shooting black folks: definitely OK
A ringing endorsement of “stand your ground” laws, no?
Concealed carry! These guys are awesome!
oh shit we got a problem
kdaug
@jrg: Careful, now.
There are some confused, angry, geriatric jackals with limited mobility on this site. (See last Friday).
Let’s all just play nice.
Citizen_X
Well, at least it’s not someone truly controversial, like Common.
ranchandsyrup
@Citizen_X: Heh. Well played.
jibeaux
Pull up your damn pants, Marco.
AnonPhenom
Yeah, republicans are huge fans of the music the ‘kids’ are listening to. It’s just the hip gyrations (*cough*Elivis*cough*), the long hair (*cough*Beatles*cough*), the skimpy clothing (*cough*Madonna*cough*) and the bad language and anger (oh, fuckme just about any rap music) that they have reservations about. You know, it can be done tastefully.
swoof
I wonder if Marco now yells at inanimate beer cans, too.
Cassidy
@kdaug: Should we break out the Lawrence Wlek?
Mike G
I’m not a scientist, man
ellie
@jrg: hahahahaha. can’t breathe… laughing too hard…
kdaug
@Cassidy: Too risque.
Johann Strauss, and perhaps a bubble machine on Friday nights.
Legalize
@Bulworth:
In what respect?
Joel
Did Marco Rubio read “Word Up!” ?
Joel
Did Marco Rubio read “Word Up!” ?
Hoodie
@AnonPhenom:
Those are spirituals too, right?
Mike E
Ice-T in Body Count, em efferz!1
Cassidy
@kdaug: WOOOOO! Mix some regular in with the decaf, cuz we’re going…zzzzzzznkzzzz…
ETA: One of these days, I’ll learn to type and proofread before I hit submit. Today is not that day.
kc
TMZ?
kc
Tupac?
Really?
REALLY?
Trollhattan
Rubio diggin’ the rap is as convincing as Boehner’s favorite yoga poses or Rand Paul’s favorite Emily Dickenson verses.
Does. Not. Compute.
Jamie
Crazy motherfucker named Rubio, from the gang called Crackers with Attitude.
chopper
@Hunter Gathers:
if you ask me, this rubio guy sounds hip and edgy!
smith
These are the songs everyone knows – even those who aren’t necessarily fans of hip-hop or rap. These are the ones I (still) hear on the radio.
It’s easy to name the songs everyone knows – I dare him to try and recite the entire catalog. Until then he’s a fucking poser.
Baron Elmo
Why are so many here convinced that Rubio is lying (other than ’cause he’s a Repub, I mean)? It’s not as if an admission of liking gangsta rap is going to help him win over a single black voter… in fact, I betcha if he does run in 2016, some cracka opponent pulls out this li’l confession to peel away crucial redneck votes. I can practically hear Bill O’Reilly giving Mario the third degree, confronting him with specific lyrics from “Fuck Tha Police.” (Memo to Ice Cube: great potential sample for your next album!)
Perspecticus
Otto West: Apes don’t read philospohy!
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it.
From “A Fish Called Wanda”
GG
Wrong song, Doug — your title is from “Gangsta, Gangsta,” possibly the most deliciously quotable song in rap history.
Librarian
He just wants to show that he’s a cool cat who’s hip and with-it and listens to the same music as the other hep cats, daddy-o.
Paul in KY
@Forum Transmitted Disease: But those are blahs with weapons! The lyrics make that clear ;-)
Paul in KY
@swoof: Someone should ask him if he knows how magnets work.
Warren Terra
Not topical, but interesting:
Eric Cantor will propose Federal Law that Ends Overtime Pay for hourly workers
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Kyle
@kc:
Maybe Rubio likes Barney’s cover of Tupac —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ_juzvmRXQ
PeakVT
@Warren Terra: I wish the Repukes would save the extra stupid ideas – like fucking over all hourly workers – for fall of 2014.
chrome agnomen
twenty-three skidoo. oh you kidz!
Paul in KY
@Warren Terra: Sounds like a great idea for the Republican House Whip to propose that. I’m sure all the Repub sheeple who happen to be ‘hourly workers’ will get behind that!
S-Curve
I wonder whether Rubio will die on the way back to his home planet. ‘Cause I don’t think this new character is pulling in ratings the way they hoped …
Patricia Kayden
@Narcissus: HA!
Wasn’t NWA anti-police (among other things)? He should have picked some Christian Rap singers instead.
Redleg
He has pretty limited exposure to music or just bad taste.
Redshirt
Sock it to ME?!