BigDawg Spotlight On: Conservative Hip Hop/Rap Artist Hi Caliber – No 'Common' Rapper Here

Correction: The quote referring to Common’s music as “very positive” was mistakenly attributed to Media Matters in the originally published version of this piece. We regret the error.

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Have you heard about “Poetry Night” at the White House? I find it appalling and very inappropriate (yet not at all that surprising) that the Obamas have invited “Common”, a rapper who grew up in the pews of America-hating “Reverend” Wright’s church, who he describes as an “intelligent, strong individual…a great man…a conduit of love.” He denigrates women with his misogynistic lyrics, promotes killing cops, and burning (President) Bush. Isn’t that special? His lyrics have been praised by a Fox News reporter as being “very positive.” Are you kidding me?

Hi Caliber

This is just another tactic this administration is using to convince young Americans that Barrack Obama is just that “cool” and that these are the kinds of artists your kids should be listening to.

Please.

In the New York Times Bestseller Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation, author Jason Mattera describes how liberals successfully launched their highly successful technology-based campaign to take advantage of and brain-wash his generation into becoming “zombies” for Team Obama. They used every facet of new media to reach our youth through their computers, iPods, and cell phones via new media venues and services like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and text messaging and “rocked the vote” in favor of “That One.”

Thankfully, we conservative keyboard warriors are fighting back with those very same tactics to reach our young voters using every weapon in our arsenal (e.g., conservative websites, blogs, video rants, music, books, artwork, and the list goes on). In less than two years (since the 2008 elections), through the effective use of new media, the TEA Party movement managed to rise up and put a major hurtin’ on the Democrats in the House and Senate in the mid-term elections. It was interesting to note that younger voters seemed less than enthusiastic about voting in 2010. Perhaps voter’s remorse is setting in?

Good.

Make no mistake, we have our work cut out for us and it is up to us to reverse the damage done by the left to our kids. We need to keep hammering away at them with the truth, we need to speak their language, and present the conservative message in ways they are more apt to take notice. One way is through the music they listen to.

Allow me to introduce Hi Caliber.

Hi-Caliber, one of our fine culture warriors at BigDawg Music Mafia, is a conservative hip-hop artist, a proud TEA Party member, and political talk radio guru. His mission is to battle the left-wing media with a tool rarely used by his fellow right-wingers. That tool is hip-hop. Hi Cal states:

The goal is to show our youth that being patriotic is “cool” and that not all conservatives are rich, racist, hatemongers as some would have them believe.

After a political and spiritual awakening in 2001, Hi Cal discovered conservative talk radio and accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. It was shortly after that he decided to combine his life-long passion for hip hop with his new-found passion for politics. His first “buzz” came during the 2008 election when he recorded a song called Use Your Brain which gained multiple spins on the Imus in the Morning show.

Hi-Cal had heard a lot about the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2009 and decided he needed to be there. With absolutely zero contacts or connections, a backpack loaded with copies of his first CD Mr. Conservative, and $30 to his name, he showed up in an old beat-up Buick carrying a sign that said “Support Conservative Music”. He was approached by liberal blogger, Max Blumenthal, who was looking to depict him as a nut job. Hi Cal “spit” a couple rhymes on camera which later showed up on the Daily Beast and Breitbart.tv.