President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a stunning decision that comes just eight months into his presidency.
Less than nine months into his presidency, Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it honored Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

READ: Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize [CNN]

Haha… man I freaking love RA’s antics. In the latest video blog, he touches on everything from Biggie to Kanye West to Obama to Jesus. All in promo for his upcoming project, Legendary Classics, which is dropping October 27th. And if you are unaware of how RA gets down on the mic, just peep the beginning of the clip and let your ears be amazed.

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Let’s be real: when you see photos like this, you can’t tell me that Jimmy Carter’s claims of racism are unfounded. Face it: this man has to undo damn near a decade of fuckery, and already eight months in “citizens” of this country are calling for his head. Expecting ol’ boy to miraculously turn stool into gold in such a short time is just ridiculous. But what do I know, I’m just a lonely blogger that barely watches anything outside of SportsCenter.

I’m sure he’s gonna catch all kinds of hell for this (as he’s caught it for damn near everything else as of late), but you know what? One man’s opinion is just that, no matter who he is. Plus, I think we can all agree that the whole ordeal was just insane to begin with. SHAKE UPDATE: And this is all pretty much over already. Kanye apologized on Leno, Taylor spoke on it during The View, and lastly Ye called Ms. Swift on the phone and apologize personally.

DOWNLOAD: Obama’s Remarks On Kanye’s VMA Incident (Audio) | Mediafire

If you can watch three minute vignettes from your favorite rapper, you can easily sit to watch 40 minutes of the most important person in the United States rigght now speak at the NAACP Convention.

*moonsaults into volcano at the 5:08 part*

You know what, though? That shit is hip-hop.

Phonte, Nicolay, YahZarah, Zo! and Darien Brockington sit down with SoulBounce to talk shop about Twitter (yhuuck), The Foreign Exchange music, upcoming projects from the entire crew, what would happen if Barack Obama cut a record with Auto-Tune and why they would never do a reality television show. You already know the comedy that comes with Phonte speaking. So check it out! Also… hit the jump for some footage of Tigallo doing his 1 2 thing during a performance at the Winter Music Conference in Washington, DC.

I’d like to be more optimistic/ But the world is twisted/ A new America?/ Oh shit, I think I missed it.

With Mr. Lif’s album, I Heard It Today, being pushed back to April 21st (back from an original Inauguration Day release) he wanted to make sure he dropped something on the historic day. Aka I’m a good week late on this post haha. Now before you go and say “Damn, another Obama song?” take a listen. Lif is always one to check for and it’s not all love. Peep his thoughts on the record after the jump…

DOWNLOAD: Mr. Lif – Obama* | Mediafire

My focus and emotions took quite an unexpected turn after Barak Obama’s historic victory in the 2008 election. I thought the excitement would have remained more prominent in my mind, but it dissipated rather quickly. After all the celebrations died down, we were still right here in America (the land where there now seems to be a major pitfall looming behind every alleged opportunity). A fierce dose of cynicism set in on me. Then I began to shun politics altogether at a time when I expected to be paying strict attention.

Many of you know that my new album “I Heard It Today” was orignally scheduled for an Inauguration Day release. When it got pushed back to an April 21st 2009 release date, I knew I still had to release something to commemorate this historic Jan 20th, 2009 Inauguration Day. So, I went about the challenging process of capturing all of my sentiments in regards to the Obama administration within a 3 verse song.

I started the song (now titled “Obama”) so many times and failed. I have 3 or 4 verses that never got past the first 4 bars. I have verses that simply didn’t make the final cut. At one point, I felt I couldn’t organize my thoughts well enough to write the whole song on my own, so I recruited my long time friend and collaborator, “Akrobatik” to contribute a verse.

We approached writing the song in several ways but to no avail. Really, it was my conversations with Ak about the topic that helped me break through and figure out what I really wanted to say. Unfortunately, Akrobatik’s voice is not heard on the song, but I truly believe this piece of music would not have been completed on time without his help.

In closing I will say, I am glad to have the opportunity to release this song on such an important day in American history. Hopefully some of the ideas expressed reflect things you have felt at some point as well.

Thanks for listening…
-Lif

*The download link is straight from his MySpace so if you’d like a package with the CDQ main, clean, a capella, instrumental and a mini poster with lyrics; be sure to cop it on iTunes!

President Barack Obama calls Cipha Sounds live on Hot97. Oh lawd…