Rapper Ludacris, known for a genre of music frequently criticized for promoting sex, drugs and violence, flipped the script during a Chicago visit Wednesday.America's team.
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.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Obama, Ludacris rap about AIDS
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: