Steele Explains His ‘Urban-Suburban Hip-Hop’ Strategy: I’m Going To Create ‘A Little Hip-Hop Storm’
Steele Explains His ‘Urban-Suburban Hip-Hop’ Strategy: I’m Going To Create ‘A Little Hip-Hop Storm’
Last February, RNC Chairman Michael Steele got widely mocked when he told the Washington Times that he wanted to apply the Republican Party’s principles “to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.” Guest hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show today, Steele explained to a caller exactly how he planned to reach out to those “settings.”
“I’m working up a little game plan for the fall that would allow me to spend some time on a number of BET channels as well as Radio One Cathy Hughes, her network,” said Steele. Steele added that he plans “to actually visit some of these colleges and universities and have a conversation.” Steele said he planned “a little hip-hop storm”:
STEELE: What it’s about right now is your health care, ability for you to run a small business and grow it to a major business. Defining wealth in America. What I like to call creating legacy wealth that is generational. Empowering you to put your kids in schools that actually educate them as opposed to dumb them down to go out and be, you know, not very productive members of society. So, you know, these are important conversations to have. I’ve just been struck by the fact that this president has not addressed those issues in a meaningful way, in the black community especially. So, I’m looking forward to doing that and causing a little hip-hop storm, if you will.
Listen here:
In March, while appearing on D.L. Hughley’s now defunct CNN show, Steele explained that when he talks about hip-hop, he’s “really not talking about specifically just hip-hop” but “an urban agenda.” “I’m not trying to play off of hip-hop. I’m not trying to use hip-hop,” he added.
Transcript:
STEELE: Joseph in Texas, what’s going on buddy?JOSEPH: Mr. Steele.
STEELE: Hey.
JOSEPH: Hey, I was was calling because I have two questions, if we can get to them. But the first question is, I attended an HBCU at Prairie View A and M University and I was wondering — because I’ve just got turned on to you, I guess, in the last couple months — I was wondering how come you aren’t on programs with like BET, doing interviews with like Cousin Jeff or like at hip hop summits with Russell Simmons and Puff Daddy and things like that. Or around the HBCU circuit because I think you have a very interesting message, even though it may be different than, you know, blacks are the minority
STEELE: Right.
JOSEPH: We’re getting from the Democrats. But, I, this is, you’re new to me and you’re new to our community.
STEELE: Well, no, I appreciate that and in fact we are. I’m working up a little game plan for the fall that would allow me to spend some time on a number of BET channels as well as Radio One Kathy Hughes, her network. And to actually visit some of these colleges and universities and have a conversation. I’m not afraid and I’m glad you, I’m glad you called Joseph and put that question up there, because I’m not afraid to go and have this conversation. I was at the NAACP this week and I thought that it went very well. People responded. They listened. And I wanted to engage in a different way and say, look, I don’t want to come here and start talking the same old platitudes that Republicans typically say and, “oh, I’ve got to remind you that Bull Connor was a Democrat, you know. That’s not what it’s about now. What it’s about right now is your health care, ability for you to run a small business and grow it to a major business. Defining wealth in America. What I like to call creating legacy wealth that is generational. Empowering you to put your kids in schools that actually educate them as opposed to dumb them down to go out and be, you know, not very productive members of society. So, you know, these are important conversations to have. I’ve just been struck by the fact that this president has not addressed those issues in a meaningful way, in the black community especially. So, I’m looking forward to doing that and causing a little hip hop storm, if you will. We’ll be back.
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OMG – Big Mike’s gonna bust a cap!!
wonder who’s gonna get it??
July 17th, 2009 at 2:02 pmMike Steele, you should really just STFU!!!!!!! You’re making it worst for you party. You’re a “FAB” Fake Ass Brother.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:04 pmDoes this mean he’s FINALLY going to answer Stephen Colbert’s rap battle challenge?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:05 pm“…put your kids in schools that actually educate them as opposed to dumb them down to go out and be, you know, not very productive members of society”
you know…Republicans!
July 17th, 2009 at 2:05 pm.
LIE-CHEAT-STEELE
THE “NEW” G(no)P
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July 17th, 2009 at 2:06 pmHey Mike, why don’t you drop a GOP rap disc with the Republican Party’s hip-hop sensation MC Rove?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pmhttp://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp3-29-07a.jpg
Hip Hop – the fad that passed Steele by.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:08 pmSo Steele’s going to put a little shizzle in his sizzle? Good on you, Mikey!
I look forward to your little “hip-hop storm”. If it’s anything the “sh!t storm” you’ve been stirring up for the past six months, it will be very entertaining.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:09 pmI can’t wait for Mikey’s hip-hop storm. ;)
Keep digging!
July 17th, 2009 at 2:11 pmPoor Mikey… he doesn’t even see Princess Wasilla right behind him, nipping at this heels.
Anyone doubt that Palin’s been promised Steele’s Chair? Trade the black guy for the vag, it’s all tokenism to the GWMP (Grand White Men’s Party)
PEACE
July 17th, 2009 at 2:12 pmhahahaha….
every time Steele says things like this it must just drive JEFF SESSIONS over the edge.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:13 pmWas I the only one who saw more than a passing resemblance between the performance of MC Rove, and the Monster in Young Frankenstein doing “Puttin’ on the Ritz”?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pmSteele is the whitest black man I’ve ever seen, and that includes the King of Pop (RIP)
July 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pmOK, this clinches it. Steele is really a performance artist, just pushing the envelope to see at what point NOBODY takes him seriously.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:15 pmOoh, I hope it’s a lot like the gay-thering storm!
July 17th, 2009 at 2:17 pmOR how ’bout if Steele were to team up with the other right-wing rap sensations, the Young Cons?
Wouldn’t that be Da BOMB?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:17 pmspencers mom says
July 17th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Anyone doubt that Palin’s been promised Steele’s Chair?
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By the time Steele gets done with the Chair, he will have made it so irrelevant that it will be a nice, safe place to put Sarah.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:17 pmranus69 says
July 17th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
The African-American GOP’s has pretty much written him and the GOP off.
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And I don’t think the white GOP’s ever really “wrote him on”.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:18 pmby_karizma says:
Flag away.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pmFirst off let me say to Mr. Steele that “Black People” don’t watch BET anymore, BET is nothing but a Viacom Minstrel Show, you know the Black version of the GOP. No self-respecting person of any color would want any part of the so-called Republican party. Your saying you have a Hip Hop strategy while hosting Mr “abort the black babies” Bennett radio show? How stupid do you think “black” people are?
I already know the answer to that, but I have some news for you, not all “black” people are as dumbed down as the ones in your party.
Idiot.
Black, Hispanic, Gay, Women Republicans= Stockholm Syndrome
RIP
July 17th, 2009 at 2:25 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
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Down with GOP
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/republican-rap-down-with-gop/2117359657
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July 17th, 2009 at 2:25 pmSteele should hook up with Michelle Bachmann.
They could really have some crazy, freaky sex…
I mean, really crazy and freaky…
July 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pmI wonder how Mr RNC Steele feels about Mr Bigot Buchanan and others of his ilk (many many of them) constantltly talking about the GOP needing to protect the rights and power of white men? The entire Steele situation is nothing but an embarrasment as well as a perfect example of what the GOP is today …ridiculous.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:27 pmRanting Tammy @ 13
I would add Alan Keyes as well.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:27 pmSteele Explains His ‘Urban-Suburban Hip-Hop’ Strategy: I’m Going To Create ‘A Little Hip-Hop Storm’
Thanks for letting us know you’re planning on soiling yourself , Mikey ……….
July 17th, 2009 at 2:27 pmDid anyone hear the speech that President Obama made at the NAACP? It sounded like the crowd would follow him to the ends of the earth. Good luck Steele with that “hip-hop storm” you’ve got planned. The GOP leader is the Wile E Coyote to Obama’s Road Runner. Steele will no doubt record his first album at Acme Recording tudios.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:29 pmThank you for providing me with a concise explanation about what made you what you are today.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pmApparently, you truly are a product of a dumbed down educational system and, an overall jerk.
Ironic that Steele is talking about wealth creation and education, when Republican policies have worked hard to destroy both in non-white, non-privileged, non-suburban communities.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:35 pmSo is he “jiggy” yet? I can’t tell.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:35 pmDoes Pat Buchanan think Mikey Steele is an affirmative action appointee? And how does anyone in the GOP still listen to Steele?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:36 pm“Steele Explains His ‘Urban-Suburban Hip-Hop’ Strategy: I’m Going To Create ‘A Little Hip-Hop Storm’”
and i’ve got the perfect name for him: flava fool
July 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pmThe more I stare at that picture, the more I have to wonder if that isn’t really a white guy wearing makeup… he really looks like a white guy with a good makeup job.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pmscalle says:
I wonder how Mr RNC Steele feels about Mr Bigot Buchanan and others of his ilk (many many of them) constantltly talking about the GOP needing to protect the rights and power of white men? The entire Steele situation is nothing but an embarrasment as well as a perfect example of what the GOP is today …ridiculous.
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Steele feels the same way:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/05/steele-sotomayor-white-male/
July 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pmMikey, you’ll never be Hip, so why don’t you Hop your ass outta here…
July 17th, 2009 at 2:38 pmlol
July 17th, 2009 at 2:38 pmselsi bot got voted out of extinction.
The headline here should be “Steele endorses Health Care plan”, delusions are treatable.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:39 pmHow are YOU creating “legacy wealth”, Mister Steele?
By selling out?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:42 pmDidn’t President Obama say last night that he wanted young people to aspire to be more than ballers and rappers?
Mike Steele a lot of rappers end up sending their children to very prestigious schools because they too have high aspirations and goals for their children.
Isn’t their a black leader who’s willing take him to the side and let him know that it will take a lot more than rap to lure minority voters to their party.
What is even more sad, is that Steele doesn’t think highly of blacks or he wouldn’t talk this way.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pmMore like creating a “Sh!t Storm”…
…the Republic Fascist Party is a regressive party of failure…
…why do you think we have the situation we’re in right now…
…because ignorant people voted against their own goodwill.
Republic’s think government will fail at everything…
…and that is why they run for government…to prove them right.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:44 pmEmpowering you to put your kids in schools that actually educate them as opposed to dumb them down to go out and be, you know, not very productive members of society.
You mean since all these years of Republican ‘care’ gave us a school system designed to dumb kids down so that only rich Republican kids who went to private schools had a chance at education?
The irony, Mikey, is the Repubs sent their kids to the fundy schools like Regent.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:53 pmI can never make much sense of anything Steel says.
It’s no wonder he is being treated as the GOP’s court jester and not as the chairman…
A “little hip-hop storm”? WTF is that?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:54 pmWhen you’re less than 30, what do you think of the old coot who tries to speak the hip lingo but is obviously faking it ?
When you’re from the slums, what do you think of the fat cat who comes into the slums and tries to pretend that they’re one of you ?
In short, did Steele get his PhD in hip hop from Regents U ?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:55 pmHAHAHAHA President Obama just addressed such problems at the 100th NAACP. Gawd, he just plain stupid. His old ass is not urban/suburban and definitely not rural material.
Those stations are only putting him on so we can laugh at his stupid ass. Play out your little cap parade on those shows. HAHAHAHAHA
He fits right in with the teabaggers. His legacy is wealth/money not helping mankind or improving the quality of life, but money.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pmMr. Michael Steele. Now, there’s your real clown, Jeff Sessions.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:56 pmMr. Steele:
Just a little tip if you DO plan on engaging in any sort of freestyle rap battle. Be sure to put in as much self-deprecating stuff into your verses as possible. That way, you rob your opponent of anything to say about you. Worked like a charm in 8 Mile…
Also, you might want to start thinking up words that rhyme with “bald.”
July 17th, 2009 at 3:00 pmSo is he “jiggy” yet? I can’t tell.
I can’t tell, either. But, as the Rock would say, I think we can all “smell what he’s cookin’”.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pmGregor Samsa says:
A “little hip-hop storm”? WTF is that?
HAHAHAHAHA
What is that, is right. And violence?
HAHAHAHA
July 17th, 2009 at 3:07 pmRantingTommy says:
Steele is the whitest black man I’ve ever seen, and that includes the King of Pop (RIP)
Go to hell.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:16 pm“Steele Explains His ‘Urban-Suburban Hip-Hop’ Strategy: I’m Going To Create ‘A Little Hip-Hop Storm’”
Steele sounds more clownish everyday and every minute. He certainly live up to his position as the token man. Geez, first luring new GOP recruits with fried chicken and potato salad and now a new pet project: a little hip-hop storm. Is that how you are going to lure minorities in the GOP crib, Mike, with a meal and some hip-hop storm? Do you take minorities that dumb, Mike? Pass the popcorn please.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:18 pmTired of fighting: Im glad you said that. Black people don’t watch that much BET save for a few particular shows.
Sometimes I wonder If steele even has any idea what hip-hop meant before it was dragged into the mainstream and co-opted by people like him.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:19 pmHe needs to go away somewhere, why was he not allowing those republicklans to disrespect our soon-to-be court judge to be.
That’s where you start getting those racist in order until then quit being a house Negro.
You cannot compete with Obama so quit trying the more you open your mouth the more you embarrass black people.
Go find the cave that Dick Cheney was hiding in the past eight years and make sure that you go with him good riddance!
July 17th, 2009 at 3:24 pmHow to kill a music genre and entire industry.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:29 pm* * *
hey mike,
long john silver
was into hip hop.
;<)
arrrrr!
:0
July 17th, 2009 at 3:33 pmIt’s just not cool to be a Republican. I’m sorry, but it’s true. This guy and Ron Christie don’t have any soul.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:41 pmsteeley damn, control your stupid, will ya.
Don’t blame citizens when schools are government run. People don’t purposely send their children to sub par schools.
You should be advocating only private schools, not socialized liberal schools.
steeley you’re a b itchy, icky, creepy sort of a runt. You fit right in with the rest of the teabaggers.
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And yes I think there will be a lovely war between steeley damn and mooseyak.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:52 pmThe war of stupid. I wonder who will win?
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“And you hip-hop, and you don’t stop
Just blast off, sure shot
‘Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin’ cars and eatin’ bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!”
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July 17th, 2009 at 4:07 pmHey is that a wannabe Latin King….
“This dude walked in lookin’ strange and kind of funny
July 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pmWent up to the front with a menu and his money
He didn’t walk straight, kind of side to side
He asked this old lady, “Yo, yo, um…is this Kentucky Fried?”
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Triple Fresh Steele is illin….
Krooklyn Krook says:
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Like You White Progressive know about Rap music. Please most of you are spoiled rich cowards.
So? The progressive tent is HUGH! We respect and celebrate OUR differences, and defend our right to do so. Jealous much?
Word to you: I’m African American, and I HATE rap music, but loves me some classical.
As per Michael Steele–Unless he can take being booed, he needs to stay off of BET and any other venue he’s thinking of using to appeal to the younger members of minority groups.
July 17th, 2009 at 4:25 pmDoes this guy ever listen to himself? Talk about a FOOL!
July 17th, 2009 at 4:53 pm… … …
majii,
krooklyn krook…
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there’s nothing like a troll
unless it’s an obvious troll.
:|
July 17th, 2009 at 5:22 pmThis has to strike even Republicans I know as clownish, and it clanks out an unwelcome beat. They aren’t hip, don’t want to be hip, don’t like hip-hop, don’t have any intention to reach out to (scary) urban hip-hop people.
Steele is convenient so they can say, see we’ve got a black guy as a leader too. But when he opens his mouth, Republicans cringe.
July 17th, 2009 at 5:30 pmDoes this man have rhythm? I suspect he’s about as musical as Jesse Jackson.
July 17th, 2009 at 6:50 pmMr Steele, will said storm make it RAIN?
Or is it a CYCLONE? You know, those really current songs that really feed the soul, favorites of all those in the Black community facing tough times.
He’s such an old head.
But I like the analogy of a storm. About half a day of really annoying, aggressive weather that blows things over randomly and reduces choices in what to do, then after that people move on. A real spit storm.
July 17th, 2009 at 7:09 pmWoo hoo! I got to pull the handle that flushed Twajie!
(ralph does a victory lap with arms upraised)
July 17th, 2009 at 8:59 pmSteele is becoming cartoonish. Pretty sad.
July 17th, 2009 at 9:03 pmKrooklyn Krook
You are a stupid inbred punkass troll with the IQ of dryer lint. Stick your stupid up your tarhole MORON
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July 19th, 2009 at 7:49 pm