Why the hell would Knaan care is some non offensive generic moderate politician is playing his music?  Has the GOP been so demonized by the left that there is not a simple respect for it’s candidates?

“The Rapper K’Naan Is Not Happy That Mitt Romney Used His Song At A Speech”

Neither is the audience.

Kathy Keknek & Janet Aglukkaq best capture the spirit of the Williard campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGM0BlA95I

deep.

now this is journalism!

This is the state of US Politics. People get pissed about songs and don’t give a hoot about policy….

Mitt is a political chameleon and is offensive to those of us who want authentic and truthful presidential candidates.

Jill Stein 2012

 One look at K’Naan (what a laugh) and you can tell he knows what’s best for the country.

 It is obvious from the last election, and the Republican primary underway, that no one wants “authentic and truthful presidential candidates.”

????

It’s his song and his choice to grant or not grant permission ofr it to be used. This has nothng to do with left or right. It’s K’naan’s choice.

And why would you judge K’naan by his looks? 

What is wrong with his looks btw?

People get pissed about *their* songs (see: property) being used without their permission by politicians they don’t necessarily want in office.  Plus, if you read the article, the person who is pissed is Somalian.

Evidently permission wasn’t asked.  Politicians should have that little detail worked out by now with the amount of trouble it has caused in the past.

The GOP has done a great job of demonizing itself.

Agreed

Knaan is a pretty outspoken, compassionate person who has come out of the darkest place in the world to become one of the best known, and respected artists, both hip-hop and world music, and I don’t blame him one bit for being pissed his most famous song got hijacked by someone who is the antithesis of what he represents.  Just like Hank Williams Jr. or Toby Keith would be pissed if Obama used one of their godawful songs at the convention or something.  But keep blaming the demonization of th GOP as a reason for this cultural shift! 

David is a lawyer in case any of you didn’t know!  I didn’t even have to read his post to know he was superficial and insecure.

Why didn’t he stay and make the throne that is never quite a throne a better place to live? I recall history books that tell me Americans have died in their hundreds of thousands to make America into their vision of it. You run, you hide, nothing gets done. Where’s his family? Rap artists are the biggest hypocrites in the world. They should call it “Complain/Blame Music.”

Wow, that is actually really cool.  I wish I could hear 20 people doing that at once.  

But yes, it would be hysterical on the political stage.

It’s Somlia dude, you are lucky to see 30 yrs old in that place. You obviously have no sense of the world and how it works.  He came with his mother (who was a famous singer in Somalia, but was persecuted, as in imprisoned, beat up) for wanting democracy and rights for women, so they escaped to North America to start anew.  Since then, he has become an internationl superstar, worked with the international community to improve aid and retuned to Somalia to work in the famine relief effort.  From your comment I am gonna guess you are bout 15 years old, am I close?

It’s actually kinda hilarious how many R-wingers have this happen to them. R’s get Travis Tritt and D’s get… well.. everyone.

liberals fill entertainment…its rare to find someone that isn’t liberal in music or Hollywood.  So that means virtually any republican that uses a song has this situation occur to them.  However liberal entertainers don’t realize half of their audience is republican and half are democrats.

So they should abandon their beliefs and allow the message of their songs to be misappropriated to help help a candidate that they and half their audience don’t believe in? Saying half the audience of popular music and film are republican and half are democrat is a silly assumption anyway.

Take the genre of the artist in question, K’Naan, the majority of the audience for rap music are under 30, a demographic the republican party does not do well with. For most popular musicians, you’d lose more fans by saying yes to someone like Romney than you would by saying no.

I am sure there are liberal musicians who don’t want their music played by the Dems either, just for that reason.  But what it really comes down to in most cases is they simply don’t want to be associated in any shape or form with someone who’s outlook they abhor.  I think that’s fair, don’t you?

really? are you that dense?

Stamp out both Mitt and all rap-crap.

You sir, are a 24 Carat Gold Plated Knob…

…Congratulations!

You exemplify the reasons the GOP will never engage outside of it’s base…

Dear to all .
I don’t mind If Mitt was some where in Afrinca or Desert b/c mostly there is no rules and regulation, but in USA is totally different then what is wronG??
  Again , Knaan songs are personal that carrying  values of life for mankind– You don’t understand Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow.  Streets have thousand meaning …