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He needed some of the swagger reflected on the Spotify playlist he recently released, featuring Tupac’s “Changes,” as well as Flo Rida, Pitbull, The Sugar Hill Gang, Kanye, Big Sean, devoted Obama supporters Jay-Z and Will.I.Am, and a Foster the People song about “a cowboy kid” who finds a gun in his dad’s closet and goes after “all the other kids with the pumped up kicks.”

Rubio told GQ that he loved the documentary on Tupac, “Resurrection,” and his song, “Killuminati,” and that 30-year-old hip-hop is now “indistinguishable” from pop. (Sorry, Tipper.)

He said that Tupac, who loved Shakespeare and called “Romeo and Juliet” “serious ghetto,” wrote poetry. Tupac’s “Changes” lyric — “You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us to do what we gotta do to survive” — could be an anthem for the busted Republican Party.

Maybe Rubio is siding with West Coast rap in an early bid to nail down California’s 55 electoral votes. But in The Atlantic Wire, Elspeth Reeve argues that, message-wise, it would make more sense for the ambitious G.O.P. senator to go with B.I.G., who had “up-from-his-bootstraps small-business acumen” and a mom who immigrated from Jamaica and ended up, as Biggie rapped, pimping an Acura with “minks on her back.” Tupac’s mother and stepfather were Black Panthers.

Asked by BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith about this recently, Rubio said that he was in school at the peak of Death Row music and preferred it.

He demurred when asked if he had learned any life lessons from Tupac — “I don’t listen to music for the politics of it” — and noted that mostly, rappers were not “condoning a certain lifestyle” as much as reporting on “what life was like in South Central.”

beastie wrote:Oh my sweet lord. It may take me a while to recover from that one. I have to say it even beats Mom Jean Romney "who let the dogs out".

News flash: Marco Rubio supports hip-hop music, which sages on this board know is the downfall of society.

ajax18 wrote:Yeah, I don't see this form of reaching out to minorities producing that many votes for Republicans. In fact I don't see how Republicans will capture any votes from these people without becoming socialists themselves. You might find a handful of people that value work and self reliance but that's the exception in human nature, not the rule. Most people are out looking for a way to take advantage of other people.

With Barry O in power
Quasi knows with certainty
He's gonna live the sweet life
on social security!

We coudn't pay it all
by cutting national defense
so we hiked income taxes
at the working man's expense

When they wouldn't take a job
No matter how high we bid
We started paying single women
to have a lot of kids.

bcspace wrote:

News flash: Marco Rubio supports hip-hop music, which sages on this board know is the downfall of society.

Well no. Not the music.....