President Bush Pardons Rapper John Forte

by Jokesta on November 25th, 2008

http://media.defsounds.com/uploads/assets/1704/1728/11596/asset.jpgHip Hop heads who thought George Bush wasn't a fan of the genre may be in for a slight surprise.

According to reports, the spurned president will be handing former Fugees rapper, John Forte, a presidential pardon before he steps down as Commander In Chief.

Grammy Award-winning rapper and music producer originally sentenced to 14 years in prison for smuggling cocaine is one of 16 people receiving pardons or reduced sentences from President Bush says the Washington Post.

John Forte, whom was featured on Wyclef Jean's hit single, "Stayin' Alive," and later became a producer for the Fugee Camp, was caught in 2000 at Newark International Airport with two briefcases filled with $1.4 million worth of liquid cocaine.

As a first-time offender, he was convicted of possessing the 31 pounds of cocaine with intent to distribute and was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years at Fort Dix, N.J.

Forte will be released on December 22nd but still faces five years of supervised probation.

You can check out Wyclef Jean. Feat John Forte and Pras below:

 
 
 
 

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thakidbemumbles11 months ago
i was going down the list..i didnt really notice. i was just looking for the weedheads in trouble
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psyberkayos11 months ago
Definitely a surprise.

I’m speechless.
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djphil11 months ago
i don’t know about ya’ll niggaz but wow! i remember readin the story on this nigga. question 1 is, Who did he snitch on? 2nd question is, What is the reason why?
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stiles0211 months ago
Wow, that’s a good look, now pardon Shyne…………
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bigfreeze11 months ago
George Bush sniffed mad coke in college, so he can empathize with Forte. Bush probably needs a new hook-up after he leaves the White House anyways, so it’s a win-win.
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413josh11 months ago
blah blah blah… post something interesting dammit
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caps110411 months ago
dj phil obviously dont know how to read. 31 lbs of coke would’ve probably got this dude life if it wasnt his first offense. instead he got 14 and served 8, almost 9. you dont need to snitch to get a presidential pardon retard, whod he rat out Bin Laden lmfao.
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youngunobaby11 months ago
wow…a whole 16…
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joe21111 months ago
want us to change our mind about you by freeing a nigger? get the fuck real.
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gullygordon11 months ago
joe 211 who do u listen to red hot chilli peppers…….. i think u on the wrong site homie……….. N how do u feel bout havin a nigga run the country……….. white boy
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flameeffex11 months ago
ban this faggot
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westcoastryder11 months ago
Gully,
Not that I am with any racist bullshit, but just realize we have just as much of a white president as we do a black one. When are people gonna understand that? Leave the race issue out of it for god’s sake.
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bakassiboys11 months ago
Good Lord that is a shit load of drugs
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gblocker11 months ago
@West coast ryda im Black too but I’m glad somebody finnally realized our new president is Black/white thank you bro 4 real! And joe211 just going around saying tha first stupid thing on his mind Ban his bitch ass!!
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westcoastryder11 months ago
The funny thing is, people will swear up and down that’s not the case.
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joe21111 months ago
aye fuck you muthafucker, and fuck those nigger who got neg shit to say to me. ya too dumb to understand what i mean? yeah i forgot ya just fit the stereotypical label. dumb nigger. there’s a diff between a nigga and a nigger. fyi muthafucker, im black, im no nigger.
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fiascomusik11 months ago
don’t forget that obama is also arabic folks…
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jarod11 months ago
You guys need to chill out with this “He’s ours too you know!” … “He’s half white you know!” stuff. Black is Black. Why the change of heart?

Read my article on this subject…

Black in North America: The President & The One Drop Rule
http://jarodjoseph.blogspot.com
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westcoastryder11 months ago
Glad to know you can’t read. Like I said, I ain’t fucking white, so ain’t nobody saying “he’s ours too!” LMAO. Facts are facts, he’s half and half. How many times do you need to hear that until it finally sinks in. Really, it doesn’t fucking matter, but just can’t accept the fact he’s not full black. Again, he’s just as much white as he is black, and vice versa. What is the problem with that? Honestly? Let it go. He’s half and half, THERE IS NOTHING you, him, or anybody else can do, or say, that’s gonna change that. One last time, IT IS FACT, he’s half and half. Now get over it and move on. Find some new material.
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adroc11 months ago
dudes right, in the blog listed above it points out, huey newton, malcolm x, and rosa parks were all of mixed descent
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djkronik11 months ago
Good shit now pardon.. Shyne,mystikal,Prodigy, (and all the other rappers ive forgotten 2 mention)
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standupguy11 months ago
Wow.
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screwfacejames11 months ago
George Bush doesn’t care about black people!
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screwfacejames11 months ago
Bush wuz like “Hey Obama, dis one’z 4 u!”
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sqad11 months ago
hhahaha funny shit
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screwfacejames11 months ago
@djkronik
Shyne got less den a year left on his sentence, why da fuck iz anybody gonna waste a pardon 4 someone dats almost home. Da same wit Mystical, he’s probably already out, if not, den he also got less den a year left. Dats a slap in da face 2 let somebody do 95% of their bid, den get pardoned 3 months b-4 dey comin home anywayz. As far as Prodigy, he’s safe in P.C., matta-fact, he’s about 2 change his name to H.N.I.P.C.! Hahahaha
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cheezus11 months ago
lol PC
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screwfacejames11 months ago
Bush had 2 pardon John Forte, who do u think all dat coke wuz 4 in da 1st place! When Forte 1st got locked up, Bush wuz like “NO, not my mule!”
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marquissade11 months ago
Lol wtf? Negro 31 pounds in suitcases into a major airport?

Supposed to fly in kansas where there is probably no airport security. Better off speeding on the freeway wit it in your trunk than tryin to go through check in wit that.

I’m glad he gettin out, but that was dumb.
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murderinc11 months ago
the president is stupid
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koniac11 months ago
man im speechless..Bush a str8 racist aint he? Think in office while in Texas he had most black folks put to death.
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ehype2511 months ago
BULL SHIT WESTCOASTRYDER. SORRY TO RAIN ON YOUR PARADE BUT OBAMA IS BLACK HOMIE! AND YOU ARE A RACSIT. I KNOW I AM FUCK WHITES.
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westcoastryder11 months ago
First of all, you can’t even spell “racist” lol. Second, you are in denial and a complete moron. Obama is half black, and half white. I really don’t understand how people can’t come to grasp that. it is FACT buddy. Third, I could care less if you’re racist, are you thinking I’m white? Everything you just said, is wrong. You fail. Don’t get mad about people being racist, if you yourself are. Next time, make sure you know your facts, otherwise you expose yourself as the moron you are.
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caps110411 months ago
rofl did he really just say that?
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twizted08911 months ago
EHYPE25, no matter if you’re black white or asian, you’ll always jackass. CAN PEOPLE JUST POST WITHOUT DECLARING THEY’RE RACE? Defsounds is for MUSIC.
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twizted08911 months ago
you’ll always be a jackass*
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gice11 months ago
Thats some fucked up shit.
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younghip11 months ago
Big up to dude whoever he is But Free Hoover R.I.P Tookey Fuck these Rap niggas They slow as hell
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necter11 months ago
WATCHING THAT VIDEO MAKES ME MISS THE 90’S
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necter11 months ago
WHEN FUGEES WERE HOT
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jumar0511 months ago
you know what “westcoast ryder” in response to your comment above. IDK why everybody wants to acknowledge that someone is biracial ONLY when they’ve become successful or at least reached a level where you have to respect their accomplishments. I mean think about it all the ppl who have mixed race in their family but have black as at least half….ARE OF COLOR!!!!!!!!! THEY’RE BLACK first and formost, especially when they are an average joe, a white biggot will call you a nigger just as quick as he would someone of wesley snipes complexion. but as soon as someone like tiger woods, or mariah carey or barack obama becomes famous and whites have to respect them they point out the fact…“Well you know he’s only HALF” and shit. it makes me sick, aint no such thing as half way black! If one of your parents are, and especially if your FATHER is Kenyan…thats directly from Africa. than dammit your black. and thats even the way whites wanted it to be 200 years ago when they wrote laws that if you have 1/8 of black blood in you your considered black so…reap what you sew folks
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olgbighomie11 months ago
@jumar^^… Couldnt have said it better!!!
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caps110411 months ago
that may be true man but im sure obama, as well as most biracial people, are proud of both sides of their ancestry. they dont consciously say, well i gotta pick a side here. people are who they are and that’s that, all we have to do is not trivialize the matter further by sayin, oh hes black! no hes white! NO hes both and that’s that. live and let live bro.
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westcoastryder11 months ago
Jumar, I don’t care when it is, or who we’re talking about, but I am always one to set the facts straight. SOmebody tried to say Obama is a “nigga running the country”, so I had to tell it like it is. If somebody were to say, “we have a white president”, same thing applies. I would say “we have just as much of a black president as we do a white one”. You made a couple ignorant comments as well. If you have any black in you, you’re black? I beg to differ. It is FACT my friend, he’s half and half. Why do some people have such a hard time accepting that? You just cannot accept the facts, and the facts are reality. You’re lying to yourself, and falt out wrong. Now this is turing into a race issue, but let’s not forget how it started. Some ignorant moron said “a nigga is running the country”. Why even bring race into the argument? ANd no, once again you’re wrong, I won’t point out the facts “ONLY” when someone reaches a level where you have to respect their accomplishments. Like I said, I tell it like it is. Doesn’t matter who it is, or when it is. Just like caps said above me, you don’t pick a side when you’re mixed, you are what you are. He’s half black, and half white, and there’s nothing you or anybody else can say or do to change that. Accept the facts and move on.
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jumar0511 months ago
and oh yeah big ups to John Forte….I only kno him from that carnival album but he left a lasting impression, thats when u know someones a good MC. lol
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thegreenmonster11 months ago
he jus did that so no thugs shoot his ass
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coconutsausage11 months ago
wouldnt you get your plug out if you could
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dremac11 months ago
Who cares what Obama is… Wait, genetically speaking all Blood starts with Black blood. Call it jealousy, envy…those who have any pigment mellon are BLACK. Half this half that, if you had 1/16th of black blood your considered black and thats that. FUck if Obama got some anglo blood he still a hoopin black man and that feels good to me after 43 other slave ownin rapest. Thats not meant to insult any europeans thats just for your FOUR Fathers. PEACE
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westcoastryder11 months ago
So by your logic, everybody in the world is considered “black”? George Bush is black, Bill Gates, Don Imus, Bill O’Reiley, etc.? You win retard of the year award for that statement. Where should I send the trophy? I’ll pay for it.
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lyterclick10111 months ago
Search beneith the skin and yuh will se we are all one blood
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dremac11 months ago
Who cares what Obama is… Wait, genetically speaking all Blood starts with Black blood. Call it jealousy, envy…those who have any pigment mellon are BLACK. Half this half that, if you had 1/16th of black blood your considered black and thats that. FUck if Obama got some anglo blood he still a hoopin black man and that feels good to me after 43 other slave ownin rapest. Thats not meant to insult any europeans thats just for your FOUR Fathers. PEACE
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dremac11 months ago
Who cares what Obama is… Wait, genetically speaking all Blood starts with Black blood. Call it jealousy, envy…those who have any pigment mellon are BLACK. Half this half that, if you had 1/16th of black blood your considered black and thats that. FUck if Obama got some anglo blood he still a hoopin black man and that feels good to me after 43 other slave ownin rapest. Thats not meant to insult any europeans thats just for your FOUR Fathers. PEACE
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dremac11 months ago
I heard forte had international pull but damn!
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ghostc11 months ago
EHYPE’s a faggot….a real stupid faggot lol
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noughskrilla11 months ago
First and foremost I’m not into Bushism , yet I don’t see how pardoning a person, that was convicted by a jury of his peers for moving that amount of weight as something POSITIVE that Bush did for black folks. I don’t know Forte personally so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he’s a decent dude that made a big mistake, but I’ve been arrested for moving product and was ready to take responsibility for actions. If he was due to do 14 years that’s what he should have done. I hope this doesn’t sound like I’m hating but I can rattle of a list of more POSITIVE things Bush could/can do for minorities other then cutting a convicted drug trafficker’s time in half.
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izzo24911 months ago
look at bush lettin niggas go. he tryin get that connect. you know his boy got caught wit a plane that had multiple tons of powder in it.
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izzo24911 months ago
but on the other hand he only got 14 yrs. for 1.4 million in coke. thats kinda deep he had to have people in high places. 1. he only got 14 yrs. 2. why would George Bush give him of all people a pardon. THINK ABOUT IT.
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wizewun11 months ago
Dude had a hot joint that they was playing the hell out of back in 98’in DC. His song, Camron’s, “Horse and Carriage” and Jay Z’s “It’s Alright” off Streets is Watching were the hottest songs that summer. Glad he’s getting out, dude had potential.
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scrillstar11 months ago
I mean I am not saying I don’t want Forte released or anything but why the hell is he getting a pardon? Always postin shit like this and always leave out important details. So Bush just randomly through darts at an inmate list and decided who to pardon to make himself look better before his term is up. WTF? I would be nice to know why he and others are getting pardon. I know ppl in jail for the long haul and they arent gettin no damn pardons and one of them is definitely innocent but in our judicial system you are rolling LOADED dice if you don’t take a plea deal. Anyways can anyone shed some light on why he is being pardoned.
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jarod11 months ago
Obama has stated in his books that he self-identifies as a BLACK man – not ignoring his white half – but socially and culturally he classifies himself BLACK. Read the Audacity of Hope.

@ WestCoast – I guess not only do you have a black man running your country, he’s too ignorant to do his own ethnical math huh. The country is doomed! ..retard.
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westcoastryder11 months ago
Obviously this is something you just cannot except. Like I said, doesn’t matter what he “says” he is, he is what he is. Of course he’s gonna “classify” himself as black, look how many blacks voted him in based on that alone. He has a white mother who raised him, and his black dad left him when he was a child….wow, big surprise there lol. That’s what people running for office do, they tell you what you want to hear. ANd everybody took the bait. We’ll see how much “change” he brings to our country. Socially and culturally? LMFAO. Fuck outta here with that bullshit. Ok, so if a white guy, “culturally and socially” considers himself “black”, is that the case? You are a moron. Slap yourself. Again, he is what he is, I know that breaks your heart, but just accept it and move on.
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westcoastryder11 months ago
And nobody gives a fuck about your canadian ass blogs. Is that you in the puc? LMAO, now it all makes sense. YOU are mixed, but would die to be full black. The irony lol
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jarod11 months ago
If Obama says he’s black, who the fuck are you to get technical? The racial tug-of-war is sad. White folks wont let us have this accolade without throwing the “biracial” shit in there out of insecurity.

Further reading: The President & The One Drop Rule

http://jarodjoseph.blogspot.com
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phillyeagle11 months ago
besides all african americans in my opinion have a little white in them. if not, we would all still look str8 african. im pretty sure in the slavery day alot of interracial babies were made. as far as obama, he is just a first generation african american. but his skin is black. that why we say hes a black president.and in america, if your not white or asian, you are considered black
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kingjames20611 months ago
liquid cocaine. dats a first one on me…
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screwfacejames11 months ago
How did dis convo go from Bush and John Forte to weather or not Obama is considered black or bi-racial? All I know is dat lil’Wayne iz a gremlin and he shouldn’t b fed after midnight.
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westcoastryder11 months ago
Lmao!
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jarod11 months ago
WestCoastRyder is an insecure white boy that is getting frustrated with all the nigga’s getting excited about having a possitive influence and someone besides Lil Wayne to look up to. — Calm down dude. — Udonis Haslem’s father is white, nobody ever calls him a biracial NBA star. Because socially he isn’t any more safer from the discrimination than Forest Whitaker is.

Genetically Obama’s half white, yes! you have a relation to him as well… you can have him on weekends okay ? shut up now.
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westcoastryder11 months ago
Boo! You fail again moron. Straight up, YOU are white, you’re the one who is mixed, not me. LMAO. If you knew how to read, you’d know that I voted for Obama, but like I said, I tell it like it is. Nice to see you’ve finally come to accept the truth. Stay assy you half ass nigga lol.
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bigbro480511 months ago
damn westcoastryder everything you said bout this is ON POINT, theres no argument against a FACT. he’s 50/50, actually if ya want to get more specific, he’s more white, baby gets more genes from moms. besides all that who really gives a fuck
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westcoastryder11 months ago
I agree man. Would’ve said the same thing if someone were to have said we have a white president. I tell it like it is. This whole subject started with someone saying we “have a nigga running the country”. Why he even brought race into the equation, I don’t know. Obama is about helping out middle class Americans, not “blacks”. But obviously, you see people here who can’t accept the truth, want that to be the case, and just want it to make into something it’s not.
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westcoastryder11 months ago
*want to make it into something it’s not
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