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Long-shot mayoral candidate Jessie Sponberg this week became just the second candidate in the Portland race after Ted Wheeler to release a campaign commercial, but it's hard to imagine anyone else producing something quite so visually and lyrically compelling.
"Ted Wheeler has $600,000 in the bank," says Sponberg, "but he's not going to get a rapper to write a song about him."
Sponberg, one of 15 candidates in the May 17 election, did.
Artists Al-One, Prologic, My-G and Brown Caesar wrote lyrics about access to water, police brutality, food insecurity and oppression faced by black and Native residents — "sincere issues that need to be addressed," says Sponberg.
Check it out.
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