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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says the GOP ‘not like us’
Description: Kendrick Lamar’s hit single “Not Like Us” is a diss toward fellow rap star Drake and his inner circle.
But one Illinois politician is taking the song to a whole new civic level — using the phrase to try to highlight the contrast between Democrats and Republicans this election.
WBEZ’s Mariah Woelfel reports the state’s attorney general – Kwame Raoul – is making a habit of churning political metaphors out of Lamar’s lyrics.
HOST: LARA