We sat down with Hip Hop activist, Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson to talk about the impact Barack Obama's move to the political center and the right was having on Black and Brown communities as well as the young Hip Hop and MTV generation folks who came out in record numbers to vote for him.

Dyson who is also a surroaget for Obama explained some of the challenges Obama has in trying to appeal to so many people and how it's essential that that his core audience not be taken for granted.

We talked about Obama's stance on key issues like the prison industrial complex, Katrina and gentrification among other things. We talked specifically about how Obama owes a great bit of gratitude to Hip Hop Less