Saturday, September 24, 2011

Video: Brooklyn Rapper Waxes Poetic About Welfare Abuse

 

Video: Brooklyn Rapper Waxes Poetic About Welfare Abuse Conservatives have been up in arms all week over a rapper who seemingly glorifies the decadent lifestyle of food stamps and welfare. Stanley Lafleur, aka rapper Mr EBT (H-Man), watched as the video for his single "My EBT," which joyously depicts him using his government-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer card to pay for junk food, went viral this week after Drudge Report and other conservative bloggers held it up as The Reason This Country Is Going To Hell (not the champagne toasts). But Lafleur tells the News that conservatives just don't get his message: "I couldn't believe people are hating on me like I'm rubbing the benefit card in the face of taxpayers. They don't get it. My video is a parody." [ more › ]
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Video: Brooklyn Rapper Waxes Poetic About Welfare Abuse
Ben Yakas
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:55:40 GMT

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