The Fighting 44s

OK, maybe everyone’s favorite Freestyle Friday champ and battle rapper Jin (AKA “The Emcee”) isn’t likely to be vice president material, but after the release of the single “Open Letter to Obama” on social networking behemoth MySpace, the Obama campaign has actually reached out and recognized the rapper’s efforts.

I don’t think I’ve ever been interested and passionate about an election prior to this,” [Jin] continued. “So I did the record, we put it out, and as things started growing traction, people from the actual campaign started reaching out to me. At first it started out with the [Obama] MySpace page sending me a message saying, ‘Great song, we appreciate it, keep it up.’ I wrote back like, ‘Thanks, appreciate it.’

Then another week goes by and they hit me up again, like, ‘Yo, what’s your profile address? We’d like to feature you in our top friends.’ I’m like, ‘Cool.’ And next thing you know, I check it and I’m the top friend on that page, which was pretty ill.”

Jin himself seems genuinely surprised by the “official response” as well.

“Their campaign is taking a risk [associating with hip-hop], especially with the platform that candidates are on, they get scrutinized for everything,” Jin said. “They could easily not recognize me at all. Easily. ‘Cause it’s a big liability.

The full story can be read right here.

The song can heard on Jin’s Myspace page right here.

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