Asshole alert: Tim Graham

Since his celebrated, triumphant election, heads have secretly wondered what the Barack Obama age will mean to hip-hop.
Specifically, will a culture so vitally attached to a villainous ruling party in terms of, you know, content, suddenly toe the line and pledge allegiance? And if this happens, won't the music lose its lifeblood? As Nas rattled off for 50 minutes about everything evil on last summer's Untitled, he did so closing on an optimistic footnote about the new guy.
How does one stick it to the man, when the man is, kinda sorta the man?
As this is sorted out internally, one thing is clear, the sudden rise of circular, simplistic white man arguments of this nature:

Obama won, why are you still angry?

Some Madd Rapper shit. There's an army of right-leaning intellectuals finding a silver lining in using the Obama win as an excuse to do away with hip-hop's legacy and impact once and for all. Take today's sensationalist, ill-backed and poorly presented  column by Newsbusters's Tim Graham.
The headline says it all and the piece goes on to attack Russell Simmons' recent NPR interview, using favorite old tricks like quoting N.W.A. out of context.

This isn't so much news, as it as a heavy-handed recommendation to write this guy intelligent hate mail. To serve this guy up proper because it's infuriating that the genre's credibility and significance - especially golden era Cube shit - is still in question. We must protect this house.
That's mail@timgraham.net