{"id":958,"date":"2004-12-07T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/12\/colin_powells_new_rap\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T00:49:26","slug":"colin_powells_new_rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/12\/colin_powells_new_rap.html","title":{"rendered":"COLIN POWELL’S NEW RAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell got down the other night in Washington D.C. — or
\nthought he did — when he paid tribute to Warren Beatty at the Kennedy Center Honors<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> with a
\nrap that went like this:<\/P>
\n

I’m Colin Luther Powell.
Public service is my thing.
Don’t do it for the
\nfame.
Don’t do it for the bling.
<\/P>
\n

Harlem Globe Trottahs
Got nuthin’ on me.
Been everywhere
That a brutha
\ncan be.
<\/P>
\n

Been a soldier,
Brass stars on my shouldah,
Ran JCS an’ NSC,
Hung it up,
\n‘stablished a char-i-tee,
<\/P>
\n

Came back into office as Secretar-ee.
And what comes aftah this
Y’all
\njes’
Hafta wait an’ see.<\/I>
<\/P>
\n

Then, according to this report<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, he pounded his chest once and shouted to Beatty: “Representing, my bruthah!” Now we know why Colin Powell has had so little influence on foreign policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell got down the other night in Washington D.C. — or thought he did — when he paid tribute to Warren Beatty at the Kennedy Center Honors with a rap that went like this: I’m Colin Luther Powell.Public service is my thing.Don’t do it for the fame.Don’t do it for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20816,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/20816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}