Artwork for Michael Barber’s song Quiet War

Last week, rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter spoke with Philadelphia rapper, Meek Mill, and persuaded him to not meet with President Donald Trump. Meek Mill who was recently released from prison was heading to the white house to speak on a panel that would highlight prison reform. Early speculation was that former President Barack Obama suggested to Meek that he shouldn’t attend, but no base has been found for that rumor. Jay-Z and Obama are close friends, however.

Last month, Meek was released from jail after the officer who arrested him back in 2007 was found on a secret DA list that highlights dirty cops. Last November, Meek was sentenced two to four years in prison for violating his probation. Meek spent five months in jail and was awarded bail April 24.

Before Meek Mill turned down his invitation to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Kanye West was bashed by the media and the left for tweeting out his love for the 45th President, and even wearing a MAGA hat.

Now the media and the left which includes 99.9% of the hip hop community is shunning a record just because President Trump endorsed it. The song, Quiet War, by Indiana rapper, Michael Barber, attacks the current opioid epidemic. Trump and the white house heard the song before it’s release, and sent Barber a letter about the song.

The song was finally released last week online, but Barber’s publicist, Andrew “Dru” Tyler tells us that the record isn’t getting the spins or placements online mostly because of the Trump endorsement.

“Imagine a record co-signed by Obama, it would be major national news running on the bottom of CNN and MSNBC, but since it’s Trump endorsing the song, it’s a different ballgame. the blogs are telling me that they can’t do anything with it, but last week they were using every record I sent out. They are taking the endorsement from President Trump like an endorsement from (sic) Michael Barber himself. It is still an endorsement from the highest office in the land, and on top of that, Michael did a video blog and wrote on his own blog that the song isn’t about the left or the right, it is about ending the opioid epidemic.”

The news of Trump endorsing the song was seen on a few major hip hop blogs including rapper Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent’s website, Thisis50 and on the world famous YoRaps website, but the news has been limited and the hate high for the record. Tyler continued in my phone call with him:

“People said Trump only endorsed the song because Barber is a white rapper which is bullsh*t because he heard the song, he didn’t see a picture, or have a clue if Barber was white or black or red. The hate is unreal, but who is causing the division? Trump is the sitting President and has been for 2 years. Whether you voted for him or not, if you don’t like it or didn’t vote for him, that is great, but there are millions that didn’t vote for Obama, but they didn’t not accept that he was the President after 2 years in office.”

Quiet War is currently available on iTunes and GooglePlay as well as on streaming platforms. Michael Barber has said he is donated 100% of the profit of the song to an Indiana charity that deals with the opioid epidemic.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/quiet-war-single/1384313309