It was an awe-inspiring day all around, and I have to say this is an amazing day for the United States of America.  Barack Obama was officially inaugurated as the 44th President.  He is the first black president, one of the youngest presidents elected, and a heck of a guy.
This is one of those days where you should forever remember where you were, when President Obama was sworn in at 12:00 pm EST.
Some things you may have noticed:
Rick Warren
What a guy.  Seriously!  He’s pretty notorious and controversial, but he gave …

We all sort of had high hopes for this grand new day since Obama got elected.  But as the results begin to trickle in, we see that it basically was one giant step forward, but two steps back at the same time.
The USA, or rather four states (Arizona, Florida, California, and Arkansas) seemed to fan the flames of intolerance and ran away from more equality overall.
Those four states did their best to ban same-sex marriage, a position I simply can’t wrap my head around.  Arkansas, for their part, passed …

This will be a really short post but I wanted to share this comic with you courtesy of XKCD.  Now that the election is finally over, and our man Barack is in charge, what will we do next?

In what is basically breaking news, law enforcement officials in the US have “broken” a plot to kill Barack Obama.
The plot itself does lack some credibility, but I’m happy that the security officials took it so seriously.  In essence, this is what transpired:
Two neonazi skinhead douchebags (one of them pictured on the left) met on the internet, decided they needed to kill some people.  These idiots hatched a plan to murder 102 people by attacking a primarily black school.  Then, they would drive at Obama really fast and try shooting …

So Luda, like a lot of hip hop artists, supports Obama.  Unfortunately, his efforts to produce a pro-Obama song haven’t really worked that well.
First of all, Obama rejected the song because it was too contraversial.  That’s a smart move on his part because the right-wing has really capitalized on it.
The lyrics are typically bombastic, but there are some seriously bad judgment errors.  For example, in the track Ludacris called Hillary Clinton a bitch.  Not the best move to keep the party united, so it’s no wonder Obama had to distance …

4080 Records is no stranger to the Zimbabwe controversy.  We’ve been reporting on the developments there for quite some time now, and it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that Morgan Tsvingrai has pulled out of the Presidential Race.
Ever since he narrowly won the election a few months ago, there has been major speculation about what the “run-off” between Tsvingrai and Robert Mugabe would be like.  Pretty much everyone has reported that there is a better chance of Mike Jones winning a grammy than of this election …

The chairman of the New Black Panther Party’s Boston Chapter is a rapper named Jamarhl Crawford (a.k.a. UNO the Prophet).  Besides being the leader of a chapter of a controversial black supremacist organization, Crawford also seems to take aim at conscious rappers.
“I’m respected because I’m not one of these conscious rappers who you can’t find a revolutionary part of,” Crawford said. “If the only thing you’ve contributed to the revolution is a poem or a rhyme, then you’re not a revolutionary, you’re just a poet or an MC.”
He actually …

Al Gore has come out in support of the Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
After Bill Clinton’s repeated meltdowns during the primary season, Gore is probably now the most respected Democrat in the party.  Many still see him as having won the 2000 election, and now that he won a Nobel Prize he’s doing pretty well for himself.
This is only major news because Gore stayed neutral on purpose during the whole Democratic primary.
“The former vice president turned Nobel Prize winner playfully said he recalled one Republican nominee wondering out loud whether his …

Well, only sort of.  This is an extremely long overdue post (especially since Obama is now actually the Democratic nominee).
Back in May, almost exactly a month ago, Mark McKinnon kept his promise that he would leavve the McCain campaign if Obama was going to win the nomination.

John McWhorter is an “author” who writes for the New York Sun. He’s got a book coming out called About the Beat: Why Hiphop Can’t Save Black America and in an effort to stir up some attention about it he’s written an article claiming that conscious hip hop is a myth.
In his incredibly awkward (I’m talking puberty-level awkward) rant, he fundamentally misunderstands the argument in support of hip hop and conscious hip hop in particular. With a flawed understanding, it’s no surprise that he arrives at his arrogant …