Jammin Ba-rack O-bama 2
Every time I visit Voices without Votes I am stunned at the amount of engagement and creativity around the world in regards to the US elections.
Take this song from Jamaica for instance – it’s much better than anything that could have come out of the Obama campaign itself (via The World Wants Obama).
Jamaican reggae star Cocoa Tea has released a new song “We Want Obama”. The lyrics include this line: ‘This is not about class nor color, race nor creed. It’s about the changes, what the Americans need.”
Want more? Here’s a song about Barak Obama from Grenadian-Trinidadian artist, The Mighty Sparrow. These are the first lines of the song (see full lyrices here). This is not light fare, listen to the whole thing:
The respect of the world that we now lack,
If you want it back then, vote Barack!
Because this time we come out to vote!
Stop the war!
Stop genocide in Darfur!
No matter what,
Get health care for who have not!
The Foreign Relations Committee,
Can attest to his tenacity,
For homeland and job security.
No question US politics could do with a little more music, and I don’t mean this boring old stuff. Who will be the first to sell compilation CD’s of all the songs out there to raise money for the Obama campaign?
he`s a hope… so give him a chance…love and peace to all living beeings in this world… ayjamouna from germany
Please tell me how to get ahold of a copy of The Mighty Sparrow’s Barack Obama tribute song on CD(download, perhaps?). Also, I want a copy(cd) of “Viva Obama”, by Amigos De Obama, along with a copy of the spanish hiphop version(of an Obama tribute) I heard right after Viva Obama on the “World Wants Obama” site along with yours. I live in a mixed cultural neighborhood, and would like to drive down the streets with the appropriate songs BLASTING out of my car(don’t worry-Ican’t afford the loud sterio systems; mine’s stock).
I finally got a copy of Cocoa Tea’s piece onto cd today(from iTunes), but couldn’t find the others.
Sincerely,
Coleen Lyon
3605 Saint Paul St.
Denver, CO 80205