As you’ve probably realized, Election Day is over, and the sunrise was predominately red across the country. In Colorado, Republican Cory Gardner unseated Democrat Mark Udall in the run for senate. No matter what side of the spectrum you fall on, we hope you exercised your right to vote and had your voice heard.
Many in the hip-hop community worked in the weeks leading up to Nov. 4 to get word out about voting. Artists were involved in endorsing initiatives (like DJ Cavem did with the “yes on 105” campaign), or organizing fellow musicians to “party at the polls” like Flobots.org’s Jonny 5 and Wheelchair Sports Camp’s Kalyn Heffernan.
We rounded up reactions from Denver’s hip-hop community, who sounded off on social media about the 2014 election results.
Some, like Jonny 5 of Flobots.org was half clever half exasperation:
Oil and Gas defeat Senator Udall. All this while Stephen Colbert is going non-satire…
— Jonny 5 (@Flobot5)
While others like Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchair Sports Camp decided to look on the bright side of things:
Lame. Can't imagine how shitty I'd feel if I didn't legitimately try to get people to vote all day…
— WheelchairSportsCamp (@wcsportscamp)
Molina Speaks kept it classy and middle of the road with a congratulations to second-term Gov. John Hickenlooper:
Congrats . Thank you for your continued support for education, the arts, Colorado music, and social programs for the underserved.
— Molina Speaks (@MOLINAspeaks)
DJ Cavem, who endorsed the “Yes on 105” campaign that would require GMO labelling on all food items, chose to continue educating the masses:
Monsanto will have spent more than $10.65 million to keep voters in the dark this year alone!
— DJ CaveM (@IETEF)
Sole isn’t an MC to cry over spilled milk. Especially when that milk is being taxed to high heavens:
There was an election yesterday? Who won? The war party or the capitalists?
— S O L E (@mcsole)
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