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  Barack Obama: 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Campaign'?

  August 15, 2012 – The '80s Indeep classic goes "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life," and now the people behind Obama's reelection campaign are apparently hoping for a similar effect. …
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  Will the Vote Go Un-Rocked? MTV's VMAs Leave Democrats Without A-List Convention Acts

  August 8, 2012 – MTV's Video Music Awards are scheduled for September 6 in Los Angeles. The Democratic National Convention takes place from September 3-6 in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to the Hollywood Reporter, that's shaping up to be a problem for Dems, because top musical performers they'd usually have booked for parties during the week now have to be in L.A. instead. …
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  Bob Dylan and Barack Obama Pose for Amazing Photo at Medal Ceremony

  May 30, 2012 – After nearly half a century of paying very close attention to politics, Bob Dylan found politics paying very close attention to him (yet again) yesterday afternoon, when President Barack Obama awarded him and 12 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The medal is the highest honor an American civilian can receive. And the above photo of Obama gazing admiringly at Bobby Z in his shades at the White House is quite simply incredible. …
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  MTV Defers to President Obama, Moves VMAs Up an Hour

  May 17, 2012 – The MTV Video Music Awards have always been far more about the spectacle of ceremony than the awards. As SPIN editor Steve Kandell has put it, the network "doesn't pretend that Video Music Awards themselves are worth much more than the pewter they're molded from. …
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  Hip-Hop's Finest Duo: Barack Obama and Jay-Z

  May 17, 2012 – A French presidential candidate — now president — using a viral political advertisement featuring a song from Watch the Throne, Jay-Z co-signing president Barack Obama's pro-same-sex marriage sentiments, and the president shouting out Young Jeezy and slow jamming the news, are all reasons to rejoice in the cultural and political exchange that hip-hop has enabled. …
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  Barack Obama Jokes About Jeezy at White House Dinner

  April 30, 2012 – There were some controversial guests at the White House Correspondents Dinner, the annual event where journalists and cultural dignitaries join Washington, DC elite for an evening of laughs and networking, on Saturday night (Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, the cast of Glee). …
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  President Barack Obama Finally Collaborates With the Roots

  April 25, 2012 – Ahmir "Questlove" (or "?uestlove") Thompson is such a dedicated supporter of President Barack Obama that the Roots drummer uses a picture of the two together as his Twitter avatar. …
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  See Obama Sing the Blues With Mick Jagger, B.B. King, and Buddy Guy

  February 22, 2012 – Explain it to us slowly, everything-should-be-free zealots: Why exactly is it to so bad for politicians to cozy up with the entertainment industry, again? Is the tech industry and its contraception-loathing congressional advocates going to come up with better music? Mitt Romney has Kid Rock. New Gingrich couldn't even get Survivor. …
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  Only Barack Obama Can Save the Music Industry Now

  January 27, 2012 – Last week, President Barack Obama sang 10 seconds of Al Green's 1971 smash "Let's Stay Together" at a Harlem fundraiser. And now he has raised Green's single sales of the song to 16,000 — a leap of 490 percent, according to Billboard. Obama sang six words, so he improved Green's sales by 82 percent with every word he crooned. …
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  Dissecting President Obama's Al Green Cover

  January 20, 2012 – Here's a theory: There exists, within all of us, some deep, latent, and heretofore unfulfilled urge to see President Barack Obama perform a pop song. Way back in 2008, when everyone wanted "hope" and "change" right now even as the economy was on the brink of collapsing, you might have imagined that happening most naturally within a hip-hop context. …
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