tag:ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com,2009://8/tag:ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com,2008://31.41867- Comments for Barack Is Like Movable Type 4.24-en tag:ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com,2008://31.41867 2008-01-27T02:50:32Z 2008-08-04T16:51:38Z Barack Is Like Man just watched Obama acceptance. Circa '94, I thought Nas was God's gift to hip-hop. Whenever I heard he was releasing a cut, or was on someone else's record, I had this sense that I just knew he was gonna... Man just watched Obama acceptance. Circa '94, I thought Nas was God's gift to hip-hop. Whenever I heard he was releasing a cut, or was on someone else's record, I had this sense that I just knew he was gonna rip it. It was like watching Jordan in the playoffs or Elway in the 4th. That's the feeling you get when Obama is about to give a speech. I just watched Pat Buchannan say that Obama has to give a perfect speech. And before I even heard a word, I knew he'd deliver. Incredible.

The Essence:

As we leave this great state with a new wind at our back, and we take this journey across the great country, a country we love, with the message we carried from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up, and when were down--that out of many we are one, that while we breath we will hope.

Man. What'd Slick Rick say? Even make construction workers turn feminine.

]]>