



Later on the record, he bookends the opener with the more topical “The Evening News”, which is much too heavy-handed for its own good - the sing-songy chorus uses high gas prices and dropout rates seemingly as evidence of impending Armageddon - yet nevertheless includes a couple good barbs. The track’s called “The Morning News”, and includes Cham waxing critical on, among other subjects, the Rosie O’ Donnell-Donald Trump feud (“nonsense”) and Bill O’ Reilly (“an idiot”). The above-quoted international news report is how the Houston rapper, famous mostly for last year’s Weird Al-parodied ringtone favorite “Ridin’”, opens his sophomore album. If nothing else, you have to give Chamillionaire credit for ambition. Initial reports claim Israeli jet fighters bombed a guerrilla base, killing at least 49 soldiers and 13 civilians…” “Fighting broke out overnight between rival factions along the Israeli-Syrian border.
