Actually, I thinking any thinking music critic would say that rappers are easily more conservative than "liberal." Has their even been a musical movement more infatuated with the spoils of the free market than mainstream rap? I mean, if you start approaching the fringes and talking about sententious goons like Sage Francis or Blackalicious, yeah, then you're getting into some pretty clearly defined liberal orthodoxy.

But 50 Cent may be the most staunch advocate of up-by-your-bootstraps Reaganomics in the history of the microphone. "I get money/money/money/ I, I get money/money/money." If that isn't trickle down economics to a beat, then what is?