We want to say fuck Bush and fuck Kerry!” Stic.man, one-half of dead prez, cried out to scattered applause. It was Saturday afternoon, June 19, the fourth and final day of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention (NHHPC), and most of the delegates — mainly college-age students from around the nation who qualified as delegates by registering 50 voters or more — along with a few hundred attendees, had decamped to the Essex County College gymnasium in Newark, New Jersey. Among the speakers before a long and drawn-out ratification process for the first-ever national hip-hop political platform: self-styled rappers ... More >>>