This video was actually elicited in 2012 in response to a request by Keith Ellison. He said, I want to have a rap the vote contest. I had created a rap in 2010 out of my song "Vote for Change". So in response to what Keith Ellison announced I posted this rap. It was my intention to use the e-mail addresses of all the voters in the Congressional District 4 (in St. Paul and suburbs), which the Secretary of State's office had promised I could purchase and use, to send this message against gender-quota corruption of the Minnesota DFL to every one of the voters. However, when I purchased the file, it only had phone numbers (I could have called everyone) and the DFL Secretary of State Mark Ritchie would not release any e-mail addresses he had collected and sold to parties. Betty McCoillum had publicly demanded any voter e-mails not be released, to another candidate Diana Longrie. So, Betty McCollum cheats in every way she can, and especially gender quotas in nominating her. She attained office when her predecessor Bruce Vento, passed away.
"Make It Count" sets out why everyone should have participation. The black voters who are reduced to a quota in the DFL should have full participation. Gender quotas limit black men as well as white men. And it sets out the agenda: liberty, industry, family, education and equal political participation which the DNC's quotas deny by "capping" you according to your identity.
THE BEGINNING:
"American Community Party" 2010, updated 2018
When in 2010 Betty McCollum and her people, and Teresa Collette the Republican started talking about my music when we met, I decided to start to reduce the songs to raps. Basically to create a single style of people hearing words and not having to take in some genre, like folk, blues, rock or gospel that they didn't like.
I figured once they heard the words that's it. That's all I wanted. Because those words carried a message that is part of my political campaign, things I want to accomplish in office and things I want to accomplish, with everybody else, on my way into office. Here are those raps, where I performed them, with or without accompaniment. One of these was done with my cellphone sitting in the audience at the Artists Quarters practicing with the house band to help me memorize the lyrics. That probably warmed up the audience. (Big secret--everyone in the audience was a poet for the open stage night. Every one of them performed, and I was just as enthusiastic for them. I was just a first-timer. There were some audible gasps from some in the audience when I knocked ObamaCare and said McCollum "totally redundant" as Pelosi's whip.
THIRD VIDEO cut
"To the Mountain Top" 2012
"To the Mountain Top" is a reminder about MLK saying we need to get to the mountain top, adding he's seen it but "may not get there with you." What did MLK see is what everyone wants to know. What we do know is it's not Obama's attempts to shut down the government. Obama may have started to the mountain top but he clearly lost his way. "To the Mountaintop" is a reminder to back away from the fiscal cliff.
FOURTH video
"Fight Like a Girl," over the great John Coltrane's "Giant Steps", a post-bop hip-hop rap.
(Notes by Steve Carlson the songwriter etc.) I call this post-bop hip-hop because Coltrane was post-bop (Charlie Parker etc.). My friend the late great Eddie Berger taught me to play just the lines of all Charlie Parker songs, plus a few Miles Davis songs and Dizzy Gillespie. If you could do that, and learn the blues changes, he said, you could learn to improvise be-bop, because you could see what they did to the lines. So I jumped into Scott Hall and found a piano, and just played the changes over the lines. I could not understand what Parker was doing at first, just like I couldn't understand what Jimi Hendrix was doing. But I got it. "Bongo Bop", "Billie's Bounce", "Bloomdido", "Au Privave". I'm grateful for Ed's work and his friendship. Parker's and Gillespie's improvisations were so tight that they stood alone as new songs, in a new genre. As I listen to the words of this Giant Steps for Breast Cancer Treatment song, I appreciate more and more how masterful Coltrane was on this. The story is he invented these step-wise changes in major thirds and stayed in his room all day, and didn't give the changes to Tommy Flanagan, the piano player. The intensity John expressed in his improvision is the intensity I feel in litigating for these women who are "aged out" by Keith Ellison and the other pols, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although that court continues to RECKLESSLY allow women to be forced out in the workforce to get their promised medical care during treatment, we have succeeded in exposing this travesty and exposing the foolishness of "Medicare for All", because THIS is what your county welfare program does with your medical care once the entire population is consigned to their "mercy". Fight like a girl against this stuff.
FIFTH video:
"Fight Like a Girl," with Justin Timberlake's Cant Shake the Feeling barely audible in background, inspired by his great Super Bowl performance. (Slower and easier to follow than Coltrane)
These two most recent productions focus on the fight against Ramsey County and Minnesota DHS "aging out" women who are in the federal funded breast cancer treatment program because the state is refusing to pay for the completion of the treatment!! This case has been to the United States Supreme Court. Where that court ignored this atrocity. So the fight continues in the political realm. In view of the U.S. court's deadly omission of serious violations of cancer patients' federal rights, the U.S. Senate needs to pass a clarification that under current law the program's funding MUST continue until the woman's treatment is completed. I will also introduce a SECOND bill to extend the upper initial eligibility age to 69. The Medicare payments will be applied first after age 65, and the extended program will cover the balance so the breast cancer patient will get the standard treatment in order to get standard success rates.
[The Minnesota Court of Appeals found that Ramsey County officials responsible for administering the life-saving Medical Assistance Breast and Cervical Cancer federal funded program, "improperly" went into my wife's case and terminated her from the program and charged her and me a crushing "spenddown" each month before her medical providers in her cancer treatment program could be paid a dime. That was supported by then-Minnesota AG Lori Swanson, who is referenced in the rap "Fight Like A Girl," a well-known campaign against deadly breast cancer.]
SIXTH cut:
"Spankin' Franken" from 2012
Well, this was before Franken got spanked by the U.S. Senate and send home for basically being crazy, and I hope Al taking another run at sanity on his podcasts can redeem himself, I really do, but partisanship works against him. Another thing that works against Al is "winning" by excluding and blocking all debate. Seems Harvard slick to Al but he ends up basically talking about NOTHING the whole election except his little ads, which are proven wrong. So Al ends up as the proponent of dishonest little ObamaCare amendments, sending U.S. TROOPS and would have been Minnesota national guard to Africa to get a little taste of ebola, dealing with student loan debt by merely refinancing it, that's not solved, doing NOThING while savages in the Middle East are torturing and slaughtering Christians (hmmmmm..), trying to blue slip all federal judges, where he got his ass handed to him since McConnell just ended the practice, given Al's juvenile power-tripping. You can see the issues in the video. I think the Harvard arrogance combined with the comedian persona worked against Franken. His whole legacy in the Senate is kind of a poor performance with no personal awareness.
SEVENTH cut:
"Vote for Change 2010" 2010
This is the first rap I performed, in 2010 in response to flak against my musical version which was so good it was highlighted in the Washington Post online and AOL and the liberal Huffington Post and many more. So I reduced it to rap because I realized when haters don't like your candidacy they attack the genre, etc. So as you can hear it runs through ObamaCare, the Tea Party, S.B. 1070, pro-life, Afghanistan, the crash of 2008, race-relations, and Nancy Pelosi's rabid partisanship. Serious stuff. As the life audience response shows it had a certain cohesion and authenticity. Rivaling the musical reviews. AND Obama got "shellacked" in this election, and this captured the mood of that shellacking.
NINTH cut:
"Trump Is The Leader" 2018
This is just a simple response to Eminem's ridiculous attack on President Trump. Mathers doesn't have a serious position on politics. That requires rational thought and not just abusing the art form to foment insurrection and agitate hatred in the middle America's perils. Yes, it self-expression. But normalizing relations between the community and police (and society) means telling the truth, Eminem! George Floyd was poisoned and propped up to die on camera. He would have died within the police efforts to keep his airways open. He was called in as a medical emergency, the caller saying he was very "drunk" on something other than alcohol. Threats that he was going to drive his car (which he was not doing) were a clear attempt to get the two rookie cops to come and handcuff him--which obviously would kill him. A real artist would look at the truth, not make up a malicious fantasy like Mathers does.
TENTH cut:
"Our Country'tis of Thee" 2014
This work from the 2014 U.S. Senate against Franken expresses my passions related to that year and that race. It took a lot of work because I originally wrote the lyrics to sing with straight-up Eric Clapton "You can change you world..." a beautiful song. A gate agent suggested to me I might have trouble if I did that. So I decided to rewrite the melody, and structure and decided to use these beats on my little keyboard. Reggae (which I decided to move to a minor key, the New World Symphony with a samba beat; the pro-life verse with the gospel beat, and a rock beat I originally used as a kind of Prince 1999. And so the four pieces are here, with the flow, I just hit these little buttons to change the beat and change the sound, piano or organ.
Even in 2014 it was already clear that extremism from national party control, and the fracturing of the Democratic party was accelerating. This is a result of gender quotas, racial quotas and other special accomodations of different voter groups. So I a strongly appreciative of diversity and respect basically all cultures, and yet our civilization is in peril. Our politics are bringing in people like Barack Obama who basically have nothing to do except start trouble. And they do. It's time to time your light. In one version of this I show the rogue intel trying to overthrow the government. It time to pay serious attention and make good judgments. Vote for Steve Carlson and Donald Trump--not Ilhan Omar and Tina Smith. Now with the burning of Minneapolis the state is "woke". The kind of woke that says, hey, wait a minute, what's going on here?
My passion for life, for a civilized understanding that human life matters, Kanye West is RIGHT, he was planned to be aborted. The Birthday Party is needed, I hope he stays with it and will endorse me against Tina Smith. For ever child a birth, and their place on the earth, is a theme that runs from my raps and music from 2010 to the present day. All Lives Matter.
ELEVENTH cut:
"America Wrong or Right" 2014
This work from the 2014 U.S. Senate against Franken expresses my passions related to that year and that race. It took a lot of work because I originally wrote the lyrics to sing with straight-up Eric Clapton "You can change you world..." a beautiful song. A gate agent suggested to me I might have trouble if I did that. So I decided to rewrite the melody, and structure and decided to use these beats on my little keyboard. Reggae (which I decided to move to a minor key, the New World Symphony with a samba beat; the pro-life verse with the gospel beat, and a rock beat I originally used as a kind of Prince 1999. And so the four pieces are here, with the flow, I just hit these little buttons to change the beat and change the sound, piano or organ.
Even in 2014 it was already clear that extremism from national party control, and the fracturing of the Democratic party was accelerating. This is a result of gender quotas, racial quotas and other special accomodations of different voter groups. So I a strongly appreciative of diversity and respect basically all cultures, and yet our civilization is in peril. Our politics are bringing in people like Barack Obama who basically have nothing to do except start trouble. And they do. It's time to time your light. In one version of this I show the rogue intel trying to overthrow the government. It time to pay serious attention and make good judgments. Vote for Steve Carlson and Donald Trump--not Ilhan Omar and Tina Smith. Now with the burning of Minneapolis the state is "woke". The kind of woke that says, hey, wait a minute, what's going on here?
My passion for life, for a civilized understanding that human life matters, Kanye West is RIGHT, he was planned to be aborted. The Birthday Party is needed, I hope he stays with it and will endorse me against Tina Smith. For ever child a birth, and their place on the earth, is a theme that runs from my raps and music from 2010 to the present day. All Lives Matter.
NINTH cut:
"Election National Fight Song" 2012
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This work from the 2014 U.S. Senate against Franken expresses my passions related to that year and that race. It took a lot of work because I originally wrote the lyrics to sing with straight-up Eric Clapton "You can change you world..." a beautiful song. A gate agent suggested to me I might have trouble if I did that. So I decided to rewrite the melody, and structure and decided to use these beats on my little keyboard. Reggae (which I decided to move to a minor key, the New World Symphony with a samba beat; the pro-life verse with the gospel beat, and a rock beat I originally used as a kind of Prince 1999. And so the four pieces are here, with the flow, I just hit these little buttons to change the beat and change the sound, piano or organ.
Even in 2014 it was already clear that extremism from national party control, and the fracturing of the Democratic party was accelerating. This is a result of gender quotas, racial quotas and other special accomodations of different voter groups. So I a strongly appreciative of diversity and respect basically all cultures, and yet our civilization is in peril. Our politics are bringing in people like Barack Obama who basically have nothing to do except start trouble. And they do. It's time to time your light. In one version of this I show the rogue intel trying to overthrow the government. It time to pay serious attention and make good judgments. Vote for Steve Carlson and Donald Trump--not Ilhan Omar and Tina Smith. Now with the burning of Minneapolis the state is "woke". The kind of woke that says, hey, wait a minute, what's going on here?
My passion for life, for a civilized understanding that human life matters, Kanye West is RIGHT, he was planned to be aborted. The Birthday Party is needed, I hope he stays with it and will endorse me against Tina Smith. For ever child a birth, and their place on the earth, is a theme that runs from my raps and music from 2010 to the present day. All Lives Matter.
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TENTH cut:
"War on Children (Human Trafficking)" 2014
This work from the 2014 U.S. Senate against Franken expresses my passions related to that year and that race. It took a lot of work because I originally wrote the lyrics to sing with straight-up Eric Clapton "You can change you world..." a beautiful song. A gate agent suggested to me I might have trouble if I did that. So I decided to rewrite the melody, and structure and decided to use these beats on my little keyboard. Reggae (which I decided to move to a minor key, the New World Symphony with a samba beat; the pro-life verse with the gospel beat, and a rock beat I originally used as a kind of Prince 1999. And so the four pieces are here, with the flow, I just hit these little buttons to change the beat and change the sound, piano or organ.
Even in 2014 it was already clear that extremism from national party control, and the fracturing of the Democratic party was accelerating. This is a result of gender quotas, racial quotas and other special accomodations of different voter groups. So I a strongly appreciative of diversity and respect basically all cultures, and yet our civilization is in peril. Our politics are bringing in people like Barack Obama who basically have nothing to do except start trouble. And they do. It's time to time your light. In one version of this I show the rogue intel trying to overthrow the government. It time to pay serious attention and make good judgments. Vote for Steve Carlson and Donald Trump--not Ilhan Omar and Tina Smith. Now with the burning of Minneapolis the state is "woke". The kind of woke that says, hey, wait a minute, what's going on here?
My passion for life, for a civilized understanding that human life matters, Kanye West is RIGHT, he was planned to be aborted. The Birthday Party is needed, I hope he stays with it and will endorse me against Tina Smith. For ever child a birth, and their place on the earth, is a theme that runs from my raps and music from 2010 to the present day. All Lives Matter.
ELEVENTH cut:
"America Wrong or Right" 2014
This work from the 2014 U.S. Senate against Franken expresses my passions related to that year and that race. It took a lot of work because I originally wrote the lyrics to sing with straight-up Eric Clapton "You can change you world..." a beautiful song. A gate agent suggested to me I might have trouble if I did that. So I decided to rewrite the melody, and structure and decided to use these beats on my little keyboard. Reggae (which I decided to move to a minor key, the New World Symphony with a samba beat; the pro-life verse with the gospel beat, and a rock beat I originally used as a kind of Prince 1999. And so the four pieces are here, with the flow, I just hit these little buttons to change the beat and change the sound, piano or organ.
Even in 2014 it was already clear that extremism from national party control, and the fracturing of the Democratic party was accelerating. This is a result of gender quotas, racial quotas and other special accomodations of different voter groups. So I a strongly appreciative of diversity and respect basically all cultures, and yet our civilization is in peril. Our politics are bringing in people like Barack Obama who basically have nothing to do except start trouble. And they do. It's time to time your light. In one version of this I show the rogue intel trying to overthrow the government. It time to pay serious attention and make good judgments. Vote for Steve Carlson and Donald Trump--not Ilhan Omar and Tina Smith. Now with the burning of Minneapolis the state is "woke". The kind of woke that says, hey, wait a minute, what's going on here?
My passion for life, for a civilized understanding that human life matters, Kanye West is RIGHT, he was planned to be aborted. The Birthday Party is needed, I hope he stays with it and will endorse me against Tina Smith. For ever child a birth, and their place on the earth, is a theme that runs from my raps and music from 2010 to the present day. All Lives Matter.
TWELFTH cut:
"In This Election Year" 2014
This work from the 2014 U.S. Senate against Franken expresses my passions related to that year and that race. It took a lot of work because I originally wrote the lyrics to sing with straight-up Eric Clapton "You can change you world..." a beautiful song. A gate agent suggested to me I might have trouble if I did that. So I decided to rewrite the melody, and structure and decided to use these beats on my little keyboard. Reggae (which I decided to move to a minor key, the New World Symphony with a samba beat; the pro-life verse with the gospel beat, and a rock beat I originally used as a kind of Prince 1999. And so the four pieces are here, with the flow, I just hit these little buttons to change the beat and change the sound, piano or organ.
Even in 2014 it was already clear that extremism from national party control, and the fracturing of the Democratic party was accelerating. This is a result of gender quotas, racial quotas and other special accomodations of different voter groups. So I a strongly appreciative of diversity and respect basically all cultures, and yet our civilization is in peril. Our politics are bringing in people like Barack Obama who basically have nothing to do except start trouble. And they do. It's time to time your light. In one version of this I show the rogue intel trying to overthrow the government. It time to pay serious attention and make good judgments. Vote for Steve Carlson and Donald Trump--not Ilhan Omar and Tina Smith. Now with the burning of Minneapolis the state is "woke". The kind of woke that says, hey, wait a minute, what's going on here?
My passion for life, for a civilized understanding that human life matters, Kanye West is RIGHT, he was planned to be aborted. The Birthday Party is needed, I hope he stays with it and will endorse me against Tina Smith. For ever child a birth, and their place on the earth, is a theme that runs from my raps and music from 2010 to the present day. All Lives Matter.
