Twitter Reacts to the Ben Carson Rap That Shouldn't Exist

Ben Carson's campaign has succeeded at making a radio ad go viral online. Just maybe not in the way it intended.

Its unexpected reach is the only upside to the disaster that is this old-school rap ad that the Carson campaign is releasing this week on radio stations in eight markets, including Birmingham, Alabama and Detroit.

The ad's biggest problem? Its ham-fisted pandering to black voters comes across as pure condescension. Not only that, but the rapping itself is so dated that the very people the campaign is trying to connect with probably weren't even born when that particular style was popular.

Thankfully, Twitter users, including prominent leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, aren't about to let the Carson campaign off the hook. Here's just a small sampling of what they had to say:

For Democrats, at least, this could serve as excellent attack ad fodder. We can see the ad copy now: "Ben Carson wants to bring hip hop—and America—back to 1984."