BALDWIN: This just in to us here at CNN, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio will be delivering the Republican response to the president's State of the Union address. That happens next Tuesday, February 12th. It will air following the State of the Union. And speaking of a certain Florida senator here, the unofficial hip hop historian dropped some knowledge on a room full of young people at a Capitol Hill bar last night, even took sides on which rapper he likes the most. BuzzFeed captured it all.</s>SENATOR MARCO RUBIO (D), FLORIDA: I think that Tupac's lyrics were probably more insightful in my opinion, with all apologies to the Biggie fans. And that was a time where -- you know, in some ways, rappers were like reporters, especially in that era in the '90s. People kind of picked up on it the wrong way. They thought that these were folks that were condoning a certain lifestyle. Maybe there some of that in there, but mostly they were reporters. And, in particular at that time, from the West Coast, there was a lot of reporting about what it was like in South Central in the L.A. area and they were reporting what life was like in that -- and that's really what you found in hip-hop.</s>BALDWIN: Senator Rubio did not stop at Tupac and Biggie. Here's what else you didn't know.</s>RUBIO: I bet you don't know there's actually a Tupac song that mentions Bob Dole.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I did not know that.</s>RUBIO: Yeah.</s>BALDWIN: Political reporter Shannon Travis joins me now from Washington. So, Tupac, Biggie, what, Kanye, apparently, he's released his Spotify playlist. Tell me more about the -- his hip hop likings.</s>SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, who knew that Marco Rubio was such a fan of gangster rap.
Marco Rubio Talks Rap Music