What hasn’t Jay-Z done? Well, an alt-country song for one:
Well, now he can add performing at a presidential inaugural to the list of accomplishments. Though one of the songs caught me a bit by surprise: This one! Yeah, that’s right, “99 Problems (But a Bush Ain’t One).” Hey, that’s actually clever and funny. I wonder if a rather humorless Obama got the joke.
Let’s be honest though. It was a fitting adieu and probably to be expected. Most musicians have very few good things to say about George w. Bush or (more aptly) have a lot of bad things to say about him.
There’s been no media uproar this time–remember how Ludacris got Obama in trouble by dissing Hilary Clinton and John McCain? There hasn’t been a peep complaining about Jay-Z’s little dis, but maybe it’s just because it’s actually clever and funny.
Or maybe it’s because Jay-Z speaks the flat out truth here. Really, that one altered line from Jay-Z’s song pretty much says it all. The economy? Two wars? Heck, I could probably come up with 96 other problems for America right now, but you know what isn’t a problem anymore…
TOPICS: poingly