Donald Trump Is a Rapper
Consider the argument: Donald Trump was gifted with a surname that already sounds like a rapper’s nom de microphone (though the savvy street poet would amend it to something like Trump the Don, so as to conflate the first name with a mafia honorific.) He is the only person in the 2016 Republican field to have appeared both in a commercial endorsing the Wu Tang Clan and the Russell Simmons episode of “Behind the Music.” Trump’s combativeness and overt egomania may induce cringes in the G.O.P. establishment, but this is precisely the behavior we expect—nay, demand—from hip-hop artists. Ditto his tendency to accessorize with beautiful women, a habit that surely motivated his purchase of the Miss Universe pageant. This was not simply a means of burnishing his public appeal by proximity to beauty but also a brilliant means of monetizing male insecurity in a way that has long been painfully apparent within hip-hop culture. Moreover, he’s the only Presidential aspirant with his own clothing line, an atypical venture among real-estate magnates but a virtual requisite for the brand-conscious music impresario—Jay-Z, Diddy, Russell Simmons—looking to diversify his revenue and tastemaking opportunities. It’s no coincidence that when Trump stepped away from his reality show The Apprentice, rumors swirled that Jay-Z would serve as his replacement.
Besides, we pretty much know that President Obama thinks of Trump the same way he thinks of Kanye West.
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