Houston rapper Bun B has taken on a new calling: political correspondent.
This past week the founding member of influential rap duo UGK and unofficial mayor of Houston flew to New Hampshire to report on the presidential primary in that state for Vice.
His primary coverage leads off with a photo of him and Chris Christie, with the New jersey governor’s arm around Bun.
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The self-made trillionaire is no stranger to Vice, last appearing in a video profile filmed in December over the Day for Night Festival weekend. Bun takes Vice to House of Pies.
Bun even got to see evergreen presidential candidate Vermin Supreme in person, which makes us pretty jealous.
In his latest dispatch, Bun almost gets to see Donald Trump talk before an Elks Lodge crowd.
“I've never been in an Elks Lodge before. Hell, I don't even know what an Elk is or means,” he writes.
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Bun and other members of the assembled press can’t get into the lodge because it’s way beyond capacity.
“I really wanted to see the modern-day New York version of Barney Rubble stand next to Fred and the boys while speaking to the Royal Order of Water Buffaloes,” he laments.
While traveling through snowy, cold New Hampshire the rapper/reporter spies a house with a number of Bernie Sanders signs out front. The house next door has both the American and Confederate flags on a pole out front.
“These neighbors obviously don't borrow sugar from each other,” he writes.
Maybe New Hampshire is a lot more, um, diverse than Texans would imagine.
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This past Monday night Bun finally gets to see Trump in action at a rally, hours before New Hampshire are to go to the polls.
“The energy in the room cannot be denied. Trump, the Medicine Man, has come to town and the people have come out in scores for a taste of his snake oil,” writes Bun. The whole rally rubs Bun the wrong way, as he writes that security staff on site look at him and other black attendees as potential protesters.
He’s there when Trump calls his political foe Ted Cruz a naughty word and that’s about enough for Bun it seems.
“This isn't politics. This isn't making America great. This is truly a circus,” Bun writes.
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