Today marks the 100th Day that our first African-American President, Barack Obama, has been in office. Despite the large amount of support he received from rappers, singers and actors during his bid for the Oval Office, I can’t honestly say he’s had a measurable impact on the entertainment industry thus far. But what President has?
Well, Ronald Reagan created such piss poor conditions for America’s underclass during his term that he fueled some of the most politically conscious music from inner cities since the 1960s. This was of course followed by the advent of Parental Warning Stickers in 1986 and the NC-17 rating in 1990. Bush Senior continued that trend into the early 90s but from 92-2000 the Clinton era gave us Tyra Banks, Mos Def, The Matrix movie and The Playstation 2. What! George W. left us with a confused mix of folks rehashing trends from the 80s and mixing them with the excess of the 90s (Autotune anyone?).
So what will the Obama effect be on entertainment? Hard to say after just three months, but I can make some fun predictions for the next 100 days. Where will we be by August 7, 2009? Read on to see…
1) The top selling album will be Lil Wayne’s Rebirth. Dr. Dre’s Detox will still be nowhere in sight.
2) In a twist of irony, the economy will rebound on the strength of all the jobless couch potatoes buying the Snug Wow :
3) The new iPhone will come out with an enhanced GPS locater app that sends cheating spouses and rogue teenagers cursing AT&T.
4) Three months ago it was all about Facebook, today it’s Twitter, in 3 months it’ll be some pervert-powered webcam-based social network like Camfrog.
5) Bill O’Reilly will finally admit that he’s a gay fish.
6) Swine flu will wipe out the Mexican tourism trade and cause their economy to collapse. Piracy will take place off the Gulf Coast. Snipers will take out the culprits and day laborers in the U.S will protest and people in the suburbs will have to cut their own grass.
7) TI. will still be in jail.
8 ) Prodigy will still be in jail.
9) DMX will be released from jail but will be arrested for assaulting a costar on celebrity rehab and sent back.
10) Superhead and Darius McCray will get a reality TV Show called Fried Vixen. Bobby Brown will cameo.
11) Tragically, Kool G Rap will still be known by most as Superhead’s baby daddy.
12) Chris Brown will be a playable character in the new Def Jam Fight For Your Career game.
13) Rakim will finally admit he wrote the lyrics to Will Smith’s “Summertime.” Only people over 30 will care.
14) Drake will finally admit he still writes all of Lil Wayne’s rhymes. No one will care.
15) Michael Bay gets kicked off the Thundercats movie after rumors spread that he kills off Panthro like he did Jazz in Transformers.
16) Gas prices will rise to $3 a gallon when people realize Escalade Hybrids aren’t available in Heineken Green.
17) Busta Rhymes accepts that he doesn’t actually make Arab money.
18) Solange Knowles will Twitter that she lost her blackberry…and her damn mind.
19) A Ciara sex tape will surface proving once and for all that she is not “like a boy”
20) The G.I. Joe movie will suck.
21) Thousands of people will go to see the new Terminator movie thinking it’s Transformers 2.
22) Rihanna and Britney spears will do a duet produced by The Dream. We will all hate it at first then love it when the video comes out.
23) The President will attend an NBA playoff game if the Chicago Bulls make it past the Celtics
24) The Lakers will win the NBA Championship. They’ve owned Cleveland all season.
25) Facebook will put out a magazine called GOTCHA! With all of our embarrassing profile photos (read the fine print, folks. They OWN you.). People will pay for it NOT to be published.
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