And what I am saying is some of you seem so far removed from the Obama youth vote and Obama urban black vote that has catapulted him to front runner status, that you aren't seeing your candidate accurately, much less the realities of the general election campaign.

People here, from what I can tell, view hip hop with contempt. Not only does your candidate NOT view hip hop with contempt, he embraces it. And is using the street organizations of the hip hop and indie music movement to do his grass roots organizing.

And no, you won't hear about that on National Public Radio.

Obama wouldn't be the front runner without hip hop. It is that simple. It is the hip hop street organizing model that is propelling his youth campaign forward. And the best thing about it for Obama is, they work for free, unlike ward bosses and election workers in Philly, who expect some money up front for making calls and driving voters on election day.

Now, unfortunately for hip hop the art form, what started out as a gritty portrayal of what was really happening on the streets has been perverted in less than two decades into a a seamy world of get rich quick corporate clowns, rapping about which ho wears their chain (like Jay Z, for instance, whom I believe is one of the clowns making billions out of his gangsta thug persona).

But fortunately for Obama, because that group IS so superficial, and so about whatever is the cool thing of the moment, he is it. So he has the support of the kids on the street, and their college campus wannabes, who are most beholden to the Brand Hip Hop that has become a tool to oppress and distract an entire generation of youth, especially young kids of color.

These politically activie Millenium kids are already organized, but not in political parties--they stay far from them. They are still, for the most part, an underground force. They are off the radar of philanthropists, party fundraisers and organizers, etc.

But Obama, with his connections in community organizations in Chicago, knows people who know them. So he has been able to mobilize them in his campaign. Which is how the Philly Inquirer ended up running an article this weekend on how a 19 year old Mass college kid could end up running a precinct campaign office for Obama, and alienate the Democratic party regulars from the 'hood by not playing the politics as usual game in what is still very much a Democratic party machine town.

But if you dinofolk wanna diss me in order to keep your heads buried in the sand about all this, go right ahead.

It's a beautiful spring day here, and I am all over and out.