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Ex Lurker

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Wed Feb 17, 2016, 06:39 PM Feb 2016

Rapper makes a video about paying his student loans back

This is brilliant

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Dee-1 sure as hell picked a good time to drop the video for his latest track, “Sallie Mae Back.” It’s not every day that you get to see a banging video for a hip-hop anthem about paying off your student loans. But then again, it’s not every day that the State of Louisiana announces it can no longer afford its most important scholarship program either.

The video–directed by Colin Pierce and produced by Justen Williams–finds the New Orleans rapper (who picked up a 2015 Best of the Beat Award for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Artist) celebrating his new debt-free life, while pointing out the absurd price of student loans. It’s fun, it’s political, it’s topical and it’s been viewed by over 250,000 people on Facebook in the last 24 hours.

So to everyone who’s ever struggled to make that monthly payment, gone through a FAFSA nightmare or wondered why it costs so damn much just to get educated–this one’s for you.
https://www.offbeat.com/news/204811/
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Rapper makes a video about paying his student loans back (Original Post) Ex Lurker Feb 2016 OP
Dee-1 is awesome!!! GumboYaYa Feb 2016 #1
I wonder if people will ever put together the fact that cutting taxes leads to stuff Egnever Feb 2016 #2
 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
2. I wonder if people will ever put together the fact that cutting taxes leads to stuff
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 06:58 PM
Feb 2016

like the scholarship programs being cut.

Eventually I figure things will get so bad people will start complaining they can no longer do all kinds of things they used to like drive down the road without destroying their car. I just wonder how bad things will have to get before people wake up.


Video is hillarious and sad at the same time.

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