Barack Obama, the president of black America (AND BLACK AMERICA ONLY) did an interview with a New Mexico radio station today, which was probably a secret message to Mexican drug cartels because of the radio waves. In the over six-minute interview, President Obama and the hosts of the show explore the full range of banal topics, from New Mexico food to good soul food spots in Chicago (because, yeah) to Obama’s wish to own all the Rosetta Stone tapes, to a question about the kind of music Barack Obama listens to.
And that is where this whole awful thing went off the rails.
However, when asked about his favorite pop music, Obama responded, “Jay-Z, Beyonce, you know, Nas.” Despite correctly pronouncing Jay-Z and Beyonce, Obama completely mispronounced Nas. The correct pronunciation for Nas is na:z, not n:ass.
Nas has been an ardent supporter of the president, even recording the song“Black President,” which sampled from Obama’s Iowa caucus victory speech.
We took the recording of this interview to the Wonkette Audio-Visual Laboratory, also known as Turning Up The Volume On YouTube To Max, and it definitely sounds like the President is saying “Nahz” like “Chaz” instead of “Na:z” like “Pa:k the Ca: in Ha:va:d Ya:d”.
Nas’ new album is titled Life Is Good. We assume his next album will be named Until The Goddamn President Slightly Mispronounced My Name In A New Mexico Radio Interview And Then I Ate All The Ice Cream In My Fridge.
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Obama still mispronounces Rmoney's name too.
Rmoney is n-ass.
Wait. You mean it's not pronounced "uhb-nok-shuhs lahy-ing dil-doh"?
Strange, because "fucknugget sociopath" rolls off the tongue so easily.
How about "estupido comemierda"?
Still, it cannot be denied that the president has God-given ass. And man, could he play guitar!
He's a hard ass-worker.
When that Eagle story breaks, watch out.
Also, well hung and snow white tan.
When the kids had killed the man i had to break up the band.
yeah, that.
It's okay, for Barry to mispronounce a rappers name. After all, he's only half Black.
Confirmed by his comment that Wilco is another favorite band.
Hey, I love Wilco!
I saw them at Wolf Trap last month ( along with 3,000 other white people)!
I know many hardcore Wilco fans that are conservatives. Their love for the band outweighs they hatred of Barry.
Spell check,and grammar Nazi's are everywhere.Now pronunciation Nazi's?
Na:zi
Narr-zies
–W. Churchill
(Ahem! No apostrophe! But you were just baiting us, wernt you?)
Your honor, the prosecution rests.
That is a grammar nazi's prerogative.
The apostrophe. It's the most important symbol in language because of its importance.
Get it right.
Obamer will be waving his arms in the air like he just don't care as Rmoney will be proclaiming he's pretty fly for a tight ass uptight snobby white boy and failing.
Dammit Obama! Don't you know we're all one Hip Hop pronunciation fuck-up away from losing our Medicare?
Barry O you is NASty.
Sure it wasn't Joe Biden?
Not enough bleeps.
Nah. It wasn't a big fucking deal.
There's a NEW Mexico now? Time to put up a fence and start shooting over the border!
I heard that it's cleaner that the Regular Mexico.
But we already got plenty of OLD Mexicans…
"Time to put up a fence and start shooting over the border!"
And if you were to accidentally hit Arizona…
*presses finger against side of nose*
well, accidents happen, amirite?
I saw Nas right here in New Mexico summer before last. He ranks right up there with Alan Jackson.
As what?
Which casino did he play at?
Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe
Yes, but at least he didn't try to make a profit out of 9/11.
Who cares, now that Obama's locked up Flo Rida post-Ryan.
Yep. I've got a good feeling.
I totally butchered the pronunciation of Flo Rida so I would never had gotten this right.
Nobody is perfect. And by that I mean the President's taste in music is borderline criminal.
And his taste in levis. Definitely grandpa jeans.
Watchu talkin bout? Grampa jeans???
Lee jeans are for people with big asses.
Levi jeans are for people with skinny asses.
QED
In keeping with his bland "centrism".
The name ain't baby. It's Barack. Mr. Obama if you're Nahz-ty.
It's ok. Mitt Romney just pronounced Bing Crosby "Bing Crosberry" on an oldies station.
We're now even.
Meh, regardless Nas feels like a Black Republican
Hey your P-ness has gone up again!
Yup! I've lost the pretty symmetry but gained a p-ness.
You keep forgetting that Joe Biden is The Real Black Man on the ticket. He says "y'all".
Didn't the NAACP make him an Honorary Negro after that speech?
I thought "y'all" was redneck.
"Y'all" does not discriminate based on the color of one's neck.
Does Obama not understand that Nasty Nas is in the area, causing mass hysteria?
Also yes, my username is an Illmatic pun.
It ain't hard to tell – about your username, I mean.
Unforgivable! Who's the Green Party nominee this year?
Don't you mean the Green Day Party nominee?
To the left, to the left.
Al Gore?
I':m s:o lo:st.
Look for a Romney ad this afternoon extolling how much Mittens and Lyan' are down with the hip hop and would never do anything as divisive and hateful as mispronouncing a name.
"Who let the dogs out?"
I… I confess, that was me.
"Ice Ice Baby" will be played at GOP convention to show how Romney likes that group Vanilla Ice and not just the Osmonds.
Frankly, I'd be more concerned if Barry knew all this trivial shit, because I'd be wondering where he learned the "proper" pronounciation. I'm glad he's got bigger issues on his mind.
Meh, just that midwestern accent sneaking through. At least he didn't say "soodah".
Midwesterners are much worse than that – they pronounce it "pop"; simply awful.
Or "pahhhp," if you're from Chicago.
My first shopping trip outside of NJ, I discovered that they not only refer to soda as "pop", but there's something called "red pop", like it's not even pretending to have a flavor.
Worst of all, at the end of the interview when the radio guy said "Buenas Noches, Senor Presidente," Obama replied "Veh-ah cone dye-os, my a-my-go."
He was talking about the Muslim one, obviously.
that was Peggy Hill.
Well he's lost the black vote now.
He lost the suburban white kid vote.
By "black vote" I assume you mean the vote of the one black person who will pass all the new Repubican voter ID, location, hours, and other restrictions.
So the GNoP seemlessly shifts from "Obama is too Blah" to "Obama isn't Blah enough."
You betcha!
Hey, Preznit – try some Talib Kweli or the former Mos Def.
Obama really 9/11'd that name, yep.
"Na:uzbeky:beky:beky:stan:stan:stan:z"
Romney mispronounces his favorite musical artist as "Pat Booney. "
That sounds a bit dirty.
Elvis is Still Dead!
I would have loved to see the reaction had he referenced taylor swift.
Don't even joke about things like that. It'd be like 9/11, the zoot suit riots, and the Texas State Fair all rolled up into one.
*Yawn* – oh I'm sorry, did someone mention ….zzzz…. mention Talor *yawn* Swift? Sorry, I'm suddenly feeling sleepy…
I hear her latest song is about someone she used to date/beard for.
He would have been swift boated. Get it? hahaha, oh, forget it.
"Yo, interview guy, I'm'a totally let you finish…"
Couldn't be worse than Ann Falter's false accent. As fake as Sheer InSannity's forced laugh.
OT: Anybody seen Barb(with or without underscore) around? Haven't read in a while and she is missing in action in latest threads..
It's ridiculous, and pisses me off; Barb was banned by because Jim he though she went too far on something she said on Twitter regarding Owls' online stalking and harassing of her.
That's one (wildly inaccurate) explanation for what happened.
Let me know if you're open to hearing the truth sometime; it may force you to re-examine verbs like "harassing" and "stalking," as well as their subjects.
Romney's favorite rapper is Vanilla Ice.
"White, white, baby. So very white, white baby." (Jim Carrey – "In Living Color")
Dangit, Soros! I'm not deleting my comment, though.
At least he didn't identify Ted Nugent, Pat Boone and the fucking Osmonds like some other presidential candidates we know.
Biden knows that 2 Chainz is the shizit.
Break out the White House Honey Ale for another beer summit to apologize to Nas, and all the foreign leaders.
Because we all know how much those urban guys love the white honeys, amirite?
Protip for aspiring rappers: don't have stupid names whose pronunciation is counter-intuitive.
Idiot.
Nas is short for Nasir, which is his name.
Which is pronounced "Nah-sear".
Given that they say their names out loud 100 times on each album, it shouldn't be too difficult. That being said, saying "Nahz" versus "Naz" is not like when my mom says "Snoopy Dog Dog"
Or Enema Man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dog?
http://youtu.be/gZstxpTBqL0
Well, in Ghostface's case he says 100 different names to refer to himself, nahmean?
I wouldn't expect Obama to know how to pronounce Nas's name correctly. Most people who grew up in Kenya/Indonesia have never even heard of him.
I wanna hear about my honorary gay husband Tom Morello. Hey Wonkette, write about Mr. Tom Morello and what a fucking gigantic badass that man is, please? Make a prommie happy.
The boy can play guitar.
He can also write editorials for Rolling Stone in which he disembowels Paul Ryan and serves the fuck a bowlful of his own steaming intestines while Ryan just sits there with his creepy fucking smug shit smile not even knowing he's been destroyed.
Smug is the musical key.
And I can upvote them on Wonkville. Twice. And did. Are you one of the other two Wonkers to have done so to date?
Tom Morello is the fuckin' man, man. Can we have a gay mormon plural honorary gay marriage, pleeeeeeeease?
… the President is saying “Nahz” like “Chaz” instead of “Na:z” …
Barry's white half rears its ugly head.
Back that Nas up!
While we're on the subject, how the fuck do you pronounce "ska"?
I have been told it's pronounced "SKE-yea." But that just looks all screwed up.
He once mispronounced the word "hijab", too, which was just a sly move to make us think that he wasn't Muslim. Now he wants us to believe that he's not black, too!?!??!11
OT: My daughter came up with a new name for Romney: "wRongney." I like it!
That's a good one!
What the hell is Nazz? What is rap? What is hip-hop?
That stuff is old. Rock and roll is the new thing, hepcats!
How does he pronounce Uroš Dojčinović?
Red, Green or Xmas?
You young whippersnappers don't remember the shit LBJ used to take for pronouncing it "Veet-NAM."
George H.W. Bush: "Sodom Hussein". That was deliberate Spook Mindfuckery, though I think.
Yes! I remember that! "Sodom." Cracked me up everytime George Herbert Walker said that.
He had me at Beyoncé.
OT: I got a personal invitation by email from Michelle for a chance to have dinner with the Obamas at the convention. She wants to sit with me! Hear that losers … Michelle wants to sit with me.
Hey wait, I just got that too. They keep asking for money. I am just one person, I can't fund this thing alone Mr. President.
Was Michelle's message forwarded from a certain Nigerian businessman?
As long as I have a face, she will have a place to sit…
Rap libel?
Why would a highly respected establishment like the Washington Free Beacon just make up something as serious as that?
Life is tough when you give yourself a stupid stage name.
I would have been impressed had Obama said that he loved Psy's new Gangnam Style video (korean rapper's highly viral video, 35 million views in a few weeks, totally brilliant) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0&fe…
Obama is more V103 than GCI. All y'all South Siders know what I'm talkin' about! (crickets)
He is getting rather dusty in the dome . . .
Are we sure he wasn't referring to one of Rundgren's outfits?
Wow, that really made me Open My Eyes
n:ass warfare!
He could have singlehandedly solved the current Israeli warmongering issues if only he had thought to say "Matisyahu".
a la "Life of Brian":
How shall we wave our hands in the air, O Lord?
Well, that proves it: Obama doesn't care about black people.
Man, just wait until they figure out that Nas is a muzlin.
Waitaminnit!! Howzat pronounced?
And white folk would know this, how?
That's a lot of love.
Do they know that Wilco collaborated with the communist Billy Bragg?
And one of the band's main influences is also a noted commie: Woody Guthrie.
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