Puts Final Nail In Bush Presidency Coffin

With 29-Tracks of Lyrical and Turntable Mastery

(Oakland, CA) Hard Knock Records along with Slam Bush National Rhyme Contest, Hard Knock Radio, The League Of Pissed Off Voters PAC, Free Range Graphics and UMA Productions bring you the mixtape with the most beef, “SLAM BUSH: THE OFFICIAL MIXTAPE” containing twenty-nine rare and exclusive tracks. “SLAM BUSH : THE OFFICIAL MIXTAPE”featuresthe 25-year old National Slam BushRhyme Competition Champion and Pittsburgh native, Vanessa German,with her “Thank You Poem To George Mutha F*cking Bush” along with an incredible line up of Hip Hop heavy weights and up and coming emceesspitting venomous rhymes aimed at GW.

“Sending Bush home to Texas is the least the Hip Hop Nation could do.  We would actually like to thank George for the last four years - his Presidency has awoken the Hip Hop generation and has inspired millions to get involved.And frankly, we can’t survive another four years of Bushit in the White House or anywhere else for that matter,” said Nick Huff, President of Hard Knock Records. “Move over Kay Slay, ‘Slam Bush: The Official Mix Tape’ is the Beef record everybody’s been waiting for!” he added. The streets have watched and listened for the last four years and now it’s our turn to respond to the biggest wangstas of the all, George Bush.  With fourteen days to go before the election, Hip Hop Slams Bush hard in this Rhyme Battle for our future.

Slam Bush is also a very real Get-Out-The-Vote campaign reaching millions of potential voters of the Hip Hop Nation. In a series of live shows leading up to this mixtape, it pit hundreds of America's best rappers and street poets against George W. Bush in 25 rhyme battles in critical swing states, registering new voters and building a large Hip Hop database for the League of Pissed Off Voters in its wake. The contest culminated in a Slam Bush National Championship in Miami Florida, the day before the first Presidential debate, judged by Black Thought with performances by The legendary Roots and a surprise performance by songstress, Jill Scott.

"The hardest part was sorting through the hundreds of tracks from every corner of the country - seems every Emcee in every hood, had a anti-Bush song," addedLouis Fox of Free Range Graphics, the creators of the Slam Bush Rhyme Contest. We couldn’t fit them all into the CD so we are now posting them on the Hard Knock Records website as well as our famed Wordsworth v. Bush music video.” As much as the Hip Hop nation has felt disenfranchised with the voting system and the lack of attention the government pays to our communities, Bush’s policies have been so blatantly absurd, corporately driven and shortsighted that we have no choice but to get involved or risk the potential of our future.

A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS ALBUM WILL BE DONATED TO THE SLAM BUSH PAC.

A HIP HOP COMPILATION THAT SETS OUT TO EXPOSED THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR AND
HOW IT AFFECTS OUR COMMUNITIES.

Featuring: Michael Franti & Spearhead, Blackalicious, Zion I, Abstract
Tribe Unique, The Frontline, Raashan, Non Prophets, Rico Pabon, Hobo
Junction, The Piper, Cool Nuts f/Bosko and Many more!!!
Oakland, CA - Hard Knock Records has just released the highly anticipated
album "What About US". The compilation is a critical response by the Hip
Hop community to what has taken place since the tragedies of September
11th. "The concept behind the creation of the album is in the title
"What About US?" states Executive Producer Nick Huff. "The media portrays
the Hip Hop generation as apathetic and materialistic but never supports
artist that have something to say about what is going on in their
communities."

When asked why most of the Hip Hop community is critical of the wars in
the Middle East Nick responds: "Because we know that the majority of the
consequences of the war will affect our communities the greatest. The
Billions of dollars, possibly Trillions before it's all over, that are
being spent on the defense budgets are not coming from taxes to the rich
or from corporations because they are getting their taxes cut to
"Stimulate the Economy". The bulk of that money is coming from programs
that actually need the money the most like public education, after school
programs, childcare for low income families, Medicare. These programs
which our communities need the most are the ones taking the biggest cuts
because we don't have lobbyist to speak for US. Is this what president
Bush meant when he promised to leave no child behind?"

Hip Hop Pioner and activist Davey D sets the tone for the compilation in
the intro by stating, "When you listen to this album "What About US?" keep
in mind that we finally get to put our perspectives out there. That's the
perspective of young people, the perspective of young people of color, all
those individual folks who come from all different backgrounds who were
absent at the table when they were calling all these experts to tell us
why we need to go and engage in the different wars and pass various laws
for the security of this country. The things that have been prescribed by
the people in leadership are not the only solutions and so on this album
you will hear the perspective and solutions offered from a whole lot of
other people, who I think make the majority of this country."

A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS ALBUM WILL BE DONATED TO YOUTH SPEAKS AND THE KPFA APRENTICESHIP PROGRAM.