Hip Hop Republican is a combined music and politics blog that started in 2004 by Richard Ivory.
[1] Ivory says that he started the blog in part because of frustration with the belief that blacks must be Democrats.
[2] The blog was credited with giving conservative blacks a sense of community during the 2008 presidential election when they were often expected to vote in solidarity with Barack Obama.
[3] The blog has since expanded to feature many other commentators alongside Ivory, including Lenny McAllister and Shirley Husar.
[5] This World Wide Web–related article is a stub.