"I approve this dope rhyme." (That's what the kids say, right?)
Support Ben Carson
for President it would be awesome.
So goes the opening rhyme scheme on the newest Ben Carson radio ad. It is one minute of rap music you will never forget. If you don't see the rhyme, he rhymes Carson with awesome. Yeah. He did that.

Like most politicians, Democrat or Republican, you can expect some pandering here and there. You can expect some pandering to the black community, and the black community already knows this well—which is why the Black Lives Matter protests are bipartisan. But you need a Republican candidate to get the beauty of completely tone-deaf pandering like this Ben Carson advertisement. It's only a minute of your life but, it's a real thing, and you should probably listen to it just to tell your grandchildren you did.

If we want to get America back on track
We gotta vote Ben Carson, matter-o-fact

Twitter has a hashtag for today's festivities. #TweetYourReactionToTheBenCarsonRap:

(See the original article for the tweets. Some are rather cute. Some are quite insightful.)

Rapper Talib Kweli was a bit more blunt when asked by the Washington Post, what he thought about this foray into his world:
Does this strike you as an effective way of reaching out to young, black voters?  
The most effective way for Ben Carson to reach out to young black voters is to actually care about other black people, which Ben Carson has proven to be incapable of. When you say things like "Obamacare is the worst thing that's happened to America since slavery" and describe the youth-driven Black Lives Matter as "sickening" and accuse them of "bullying" people, who cares about your rap ad? 
Even if it was good, which it isn't, no one would care.
Do you think you'd look at this differently if Carson weren't black? If Jeb Bush released this, for example, how would that change things? 
I almost feel like Jeb Bush has more respect for the black vote than Carson. I couldn't imagine him being this pandering to black people. And I'm no fan of Jeb Bush. Jeb could have probably found a better rapper too.
You can see a lot more "fan" reactions to Ben Carson's attempt at ingratiating himself into hip hop culture following the #TweetYourReactionToTheBenCarsonRap on Twitter.