The Louis Vuitton Don is definitely dominating the bylines lately within the hip-hop industry.
Courtesy of HipHopDx.com:
“In other legal news involving West, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill which was partially enacted after the death of West’s mother, Dr. Donda West [click to read]. In August, Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles, 26th District) told the Los Angeles Times the bill was drafted [click to read] in response to the death of West and other cosmetic surgery patients.
The cosmetic surgery bill AB 2968, which was written by Assembly woman Wilmer Amina Carter (D-Rialto), would have required patients undergoing plastic surgery to first undergo a physical examination, give a complete medical history and get a doctor’s clearance. Governor Schwarzenegger cited the historic backlog caused by California’s 85-day delay in passing a new state budget as the primary reason for vetoing the bill.”
Interesting stuff concerning the backlash of Dr. Donda West’s death.
Also, the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, gave a shout-out to Kanye West during an interview with MTV.
Courtesy of MTV.com:
So how does Obama feel about the genre that has rallied around him?
“I enjoy it, but these days I don’t have the time to listen to it all the time,” he told MTV News. He said that he still finds time to shuffle through MCs like Jay-Z and Kanye on his iPod, but he thinks the genre’s impact extends far beyond a few hot tracks.
“I’m a little older than hip-hop culture,” he said. “I was there at the beginning, but I was already getting older. … What I’ve appreciated, watching this hip-hop generation, is to see how entrepreneurial they’ve been. In the past, musicians oftentimes were commodities. They were just shuffled around. Obviously, they did well, but they didn’t have the vision to say, ‘I’m going to build a business. I’m going to build my own studio. I’m going to create my own production operations.’ I think they’re a lot more sophisticated than in the past, and that is a wonderful thing.”
He went on to tell MTV News that he’s still seeing growth in the genre and that he’s optimistic about what’s ahead for hip-hop.
Good stuff. Nice to see Obama drop a quick line during his busy presidential campaign.
