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Monday, June 13, 2005

Nick Cannon: The Pro-Life Rapper

We don't always associate rappers with conservative ideas, but Nick Cannon might be changing that, as a new advocate of the pro-life movement.

The feature song entitled "Can I Live", on the album by the same name, is being praised by advocates of the culture of life for its powerfully pro-life statement....

The video, skillfully directed by Cannon himself, beautifully dramatizes the torment and the uncertainty as Cannon's own mother arrives at a "Women's Health Clinic" (abortuary) in the late seventies with the obvious intention of ending the life of her child. Cannon himself appears in the video clad in white, symbolically portraying the person of the as-yet unborn child, and giving voice to his own implicit right and desire to live.

As Say Anything notes, this well-made video, probably won't win him many friends in the entertainment industry.