DMX Says He's Never Heard Of Barack Obama
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 03.18.2008
Funniest interview of the year...
Below is a section of an interview with DMX in a recent issue of XXL.
XXL: Are you following the presidential race?
DMX: Not at all.
XXL: You're not? You know there's a black guy running, Barack Obama and then there's Hillary Clinton.
DMX: His name is Barack?!
XXL: Barack Obama, yeah.
DMX: Barack?!
XXL: Barack.
DMX: What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?
XXL: Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
DMX: Barack Obama?
XXL: Yeah.
DMX: What the fuck?! That ain't no fuckin' name, yo. That ain't that nigga's name. You can't be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here.
XXL: You're telling me you haven't heard about him before.
DMX: I ain't really paying much attention.
XXL: I mean, it's pretty big if a black…
DMX: Wow, Barack! The nigga's name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain't his fuckin' name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, "Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit" [laughs] "That ain't your fuckin' name." Your momma ain't name you no damn Barack.
XXL: So you're not following the race. You can't vote right?
DMX: Nope.
XXL: Is that why you're not following it?
DMX: No, because it's just—it doesn't matter. They're gonna do what they're gonna do. It doesn't really make a difference. These are the last years.
XXL: But it would be pretty big if we had a first black president. That would be huge.
DMX: I mean, I guess…. What, they gon' give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a black president now. They should've done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn't be in the fuckin' position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up then give it to the black people, "Here you take it. Take my mess."
XXL: Right, exactly.
DMX: It's all a fuckin' setup. It's all a setup. All fuckin' bullshit. All bullshit. I don't give a fuck about none of that.
XXL: We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
DMX: I mean, either way it doesn't matter. I don't care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.
XXL: Yeah, but the country is.
DMX: I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don't make no damn decisions.
XXL: The president…they don't have that much authority basically?
DMX: Nah, never
On some levels I agree with him, and wish I didn't care at all.
Posted By: Sad (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 11:12 AM
You know, he's right.
Posted By: Marcus (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Does this remind anyone else of Dave Chappelle's stand-up routine?
"Where is JA?"
Posted By: Ken B. (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Wow. You think with some of the money he has he might be able to afford...I dunno...a clue?
Posted By: EricG (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Funny that a guy that barks in his music can make fun of anyone. This shit perpetuates negative black stereotypes, and XXL has a social responsibility to partially try and curb those. It's disappointing, but completely f***king hilarious.
Posted By: beezy (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 12:12 PM
The realist in me says "Yeah, I hate to admit it, but DMX is right..It doesn't matter who is president", and the racist in me says "Yeah, turn things over to a Black man...because they are known to make situations better!" (Sarcasm). Seriously though, what the hell? DMX can say the whites have been ruining this country for years and it's no big deal, but if I said the same things about blacks, I'm an f'n racist?
Posted By: Sleazy-E (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Wait, Baraka's running for president?! Does this mean that Governor Sub Zero might be lending his support??
Posted By: daniel (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM
So he's allowed to say fuck and bullshit all the way up until the end? They don't have to censor him until close to the end? That was stupid.
And so is DMX. Yes, the President doesn't really matter, since Bush has fucked up this planet beyond repair, but DMX could not possibly have made himself look more ignorant.
Posted By: Talon (Registered) on March 18, 2008 at 12:56 PM
It's nice to see rappers still using racial slurs to describe themselves. Really socially progressive, they are.
Posted By: Cosmo (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 01:18 PM
OMG! Yoda reads 411!
Posted By: Guest#7696 (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 01:22 PM
like DMX is the guy to ask presidential race questions...what a joke
Posted By: Guest#2359 (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 01:25 PM
How insightful. It saddens me that articulate, intellectual rap musicians are made to wade in the muck of the underground, yet ignorant, untalented ass-hats like DMX are given a position to sell millions of records.
Just another "dumb nigger" holding down the black community, being held up by rich white men as representative of said community.
Posted By: Chungles (Registered) on March 18, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Why do black people always have to go racial? Get an education then you wouldn't have to play the race card instead of saying something "smart" when you speak in public.
Slavery ended 140 years ago. Move the fuck on.
Posted By: Ben Dover (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 02:48 PM
i totally agree Chungles. why not ask common or lupe fiasco on their opinion on the the pres election? nope lets ask the cracked out, law breaking, dog barking dmx.
Posted By: jd (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 02:56 PM
What a dipshit.
Posted By: Dude (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 03:44 PM
I like how he instantly switches form not knowing who's even running for President to knowing all about the Presidency and how much power they do or don't have (his retarded theories are so far off base its ridiculopus, btw).
And then being offended at the blakc guy being handed the mess, in his words..when he didn't even know he was running.
Posted By: AdamS (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 04:11 PM
Well, this doesnt surprise me.
Is anyone with me when I say that I wouldn't blink an eye if DMX got hit by a bus?
Why is everything always "the white man holdin us back"
Fuck him.
Posted By: Tim (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 04:43 PM
I swear I thought I DMX was gonna bark in that interview or start rapping. That guy just seems like the biggest asshole out there.
Posted By: JM (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 04:47 PM
i don't know where to start... part of me is like "dude is funny, dude is crazy..."... but people... this is how black people feel bro, the world is against us and has always been... this world IS based on inherent racism, honestly there is nothin you can say to change my mind... honestly, cuz i know what the fanbase of this website is, i'm probably gonna be looked at like i'm crazy but ay...
Posted By: Guest#6846 (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 05:29 PM
Somebody, help me find DMX, make some sense of all of this! Help me Dog Man, HELP ME!
Posted By: Mike (Guest) on March 18, 2008 at 08:15 PM
lol, as pathetic as that is, he's still right which is awesome.
Posted By: Matt (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 01:51 AM
I like how Katt Williams stand up routine made fun of DMX, he said he met DMX and they were the same size lol.
He said he prolly couldn't cheat in school cause he's always hollering AYO BITCH, WHATS THE ANSWER TO #7!
Posted By: Chris (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 02:10 AM
The interviewer should have reacher over and smacked him. Shit like that is why racism still exists. Hooray for ignorance!!!
Posted By: Steve307 (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 02:25 AM
To me the funniest thing is that he sounds like all the racist white people when they first heard of Obama like 4 months after he announced he was running.
Nigga named Barack? That aint a real name. Nigga named Barack? That some made up shit. LOL whats he from Africa or some shit?
Hell even the inbred and uneducated red necks around here made better Obama jokes then that. I was waiting on him to bust out a "Your mom so fat she sweats chicken grease. Obama mama so stupid...she name her baby Barack".
Posted By: Town Drunk (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 06:58 AM
As far as his comment as the world is near it's end..
Man "bro", people have been talking about the end of the world since it's existance..if the war in Iraq didn't fuel the fire for WWIII then something else would have.
This world is not going to end in our lifetime. Everything else about that interview I guess I agree with..even though I have lost alot of respect for DMX. He always plays the mastermind in movies and yet he doesn't know a thing about politics? I am not American, but a black man and a female are in the top tier in the Presedential Race and he was unaware?
Yeah right.
Posted By: swanson (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 08:32 AM
DMX: Wordsmith extraordinaire.
Posted By: GotNoShame (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 09:56 AM
"this is how black people feel bro, the world is
against us and has always been... this world IS based on inherent racism,
honestly there is nothin you can say to change my mind..."
I guess seeing Obama win Wisconsin, North Dakota, and other predominately-white primaries doesn't do much to change the "white folks don't want a black man in office" schtick (which, ironically, perpetuates the racism that people claim to condemn).
And to those that say it doesn't matter who wins: tell that to my friends about to be deployed to Iraq for the second time in just as many years, the guys wondering whether they'll be out next Spring or if their kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids will be fighting this war for the next hundred years. Tell that to the people who can't spare a dime for health insurance, and may *required* to buy it next year.
As a veteran, as an American... heck, as a person, I'm disappointed when I read or hear statements saying this election being irrelevant, and lumping all members of a race into a category of "this is how we feel; this is how they feel, and no amount of societal change is going to shift my perspective."
Posted By: E. E. Faulk (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Well, it's good to see DMX just being the ignorant dumbass he really is.
Posted By: Mike (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Did he find 'Barack' funny because it sounds similar to 'barrack', the form of military housing facility? Or did he do a Homer Simpson and think "his name is different from my name! Imagine that!"
Either way, he's a cock. They should interview Immortal Technique, instead.
Posted By: T.G. Corke (Registered) on March 19, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Even though I'm embarrassed for him that he's not more informed, I believe that some of his points, particularly those made toward the end of the excerpt, are valid, i.e., "Here you take it. Take my mess.".
Posted By: Mitch (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Wow DMX most be one of the only celebrities that can make 50 cent look like a genius
Posted By: Dave (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 01:44 PM
I fuckin lol'd so hard at this. DMX is fucking awesome hahahah8
Posted By: natedoggcata (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 02:43 PM
You know when he first heard the name Barack he was thinking Baraka from Mortal Kombat II
Posted By: Joe (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 03:10 PM
E.E., Barack isn't offering "free" health care. It's going to be funded by taxpayers, and it's going to create a massive bureaucracy. For instance, I don't want anything to do with the mess called universal health care. I should have a right to not have to fund it and not have to take part in it.
Barack is not the cure all. Just because he makes you feel good doesn't mean he's qualified to run the country. Raising taxes is the only thing Democrats know how to do.
Posted By: Michael (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 03:36 PM
If the 2008 presidential election is supposed to be about "giving the black man the mess", then why hasn't this happened before? It didn't happen during the Great Depression, it didn't happen during either of the World Wars, etc.
Posted By: Chris (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 04:26 PM
What a dumbass!
Posted By: John (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 05:45 PM
I'm not saying that any candidate is a "cure-all," and I definitely don't believe that Democrats are only capable of raising taxes (which, imo, gets more done than people give it credit for). My point was more towards the role ignorance plays in impeding social progress, and how silly I think it is that some believe this election doesn't matter.
Posted By: E. E. Faulk (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 11:24 PM
So DMX doesn't know who is running for president, yet he knows what goes on behind the scenes and that the president is a puppet?
I didn't expect him to be articulate, but he could try making an ounce of sense.
And for the love of God, will people stop saying "these are the last days". That's not an excuse to be ignorant of the world around you.
Posted By: Allen Gabriel (Guest) on March 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM
