I don’t often look to the O’Reily Factor for insight, but they might have a point courtesy of Dennis Miller. The former comedian was discussing the clip of Jay-Z and Young Jeezy performing ‘My President‘ in a DC nightclub the weekend before the Inauguration. Somewhere between to callow sniping and hypocritical complaints about ‘hate’ levied at Jeezy’s anti-Bush comments, Miller made the statement:

‘You’re looking at an obsolete model there because if the dinosaurs were done in by the asteroids, role models in the black community like that are about to be done in by a shooting star named Barack Obama.’

And he May be on to something. Hip-hop has a long and uncomfortable history in the role it plays inspiring the black community. Even at the highest echelons of pop stardom, artist stumble between …