The DailyGrind

New York City, November 4, 2008, 6pm EST: I have been monitoring exits polls all day, receiving telephones from polling places across America and getting e-mails from hip-hop voters (18-35 year-olds) today. Based on all the existing polling of people...

As most of you know, today is Election Day 2008. I feel as a writer it is my responsibility to address what's real in this whole matter and what's fake. First of all, I must say that I do not know who is going to win in this election; all I can say is...

Words cannot express how amazing it is to be alive and able to fully understand the significance of this day The time is 5:46am and as I sit in the living room of my mother's house in Wilson, NC I can't help but be filled with excitement. My 86 year old...

November 4, 2008 Obama wins the presidency Virginia goes for Obama with 93% of the votes counted The west coast states are closeing Cnn declares Obama the winner This is a historic moment we are half way to electing our first African American president...

Today hip-hop icon and multi-platinum selling recording artist T.I. took the lead as a national "voting rights leader. " TI aka Clifford Harris, surprised voting officials in the Metro-Atlanta Area early this morning by showing up to vote for the first...

DENVER, CO – On WEDNESDAY, October 29th, entrepreneur, philanthropist and activist Russell Simmons will join the Obama campaign for an Early Vote for Change Rally at Tivoli Commons in Denver. Simmons, in partnership with the Hip Hop Congress, will remind...

From the red carpeted "Town Hall" stage set at Belmont University in Nashville, TN last night, millions of Americans and millions of others throughout the world via TV and the Internet watched with bated breath the second round of the 2008 US Presidential...

All successful hip-hop MC's know the importance of originality, authenticity, spontaneity, credibility and the ability to reach your core audience with the rhyme and rhythm that makes a difference in the consciousness of people. But when it comes to evaluating...

WE ARE IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY!!! YOU MUST REGISTER TO VOTE BY MONDAY OCTOBER 6, 2008!!!!! We are only 31 days from the most important election of our lifetime. MONDAY OCTOBER 6, 2008 IS THE DEADLINE. We are at war, banks are closing, people are losing...

Listen up. There are only 33 days to V-Day (Vote Day) on November 4, 2008. The entire world community is watching America. Democracy is always at it best when it is fully participatory. That is why everyday until V-Day should be taken with the utmost...

With only 38 days left to the November 4, 2008 US Presidential Election, millions of young hip-hop voters are preparing to make a tremendous impact on the outcome of the election. As we witness the daily "Countdown to Change" in America and the world...

Sorry Mr. President, I don’t believe you. You need more people. I don’t believe that the country will fall into a major recession/depression if we, the taxpayers don’t agree to an estimated $700 billion bailout of companies who, ironically enough, were...

You might have heard that the Federal Government bailed out the huge insurance company AIG to the tune of $85 billion dollars. Ain’t that a trip? Let’s compare this to what happens when you owe somebody. If you owe a cell phone company, let’s say $100...

Today of all days, I’m just not feeling it. I’m not feeling the election or 9/11 tributes or as Keith Olbermann puts it, “9/11 trademarked”, which has taken people’s real suffering and grief and turned it into campaign slogans . I’m not feeling Sarah...

After all the Sarah Palin drama from an entertaining but empty RNC speech , I have an idea. Joe Biden is cool and all but with all his foreign policy experience, why not make him Secretary of Defense or State? Barack Obama should respond to McCain’s ludicrous...