Thursday, November 30, 2006

Obama, Ludacris rap about AIDS

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Rapper Ludacris, known for a genre of music frequently criticized for promoting sex, drugs and violence, flipped the script during a Chicago visit Wednesday.

The gangsta rapper was in town to promote AIDS awareness with local college students and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.

Signed on as a spokesman for the international YouthAids organization's "Kick Me" youth awareness campaign, he talked safe sex and condoms in a frank, one-hour Q & A with students at Evanston's Northwestern University, then whisked off in an entourage of Cadillac Escalades to meet with Obama at the senator's downtown office.
America's team.