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"My President" is the fourth official single
off rapper
Young Jeezy's third
studio album, The Recession. The song also
features rapper Nas and is produced
by Tha Bizness. This
song was number 16 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best
Songs of 2008.[2]
The song was recorded on the morning of the day Barack Obama clinched
the Democratic nomination for President. The song is also famous
for the unified collaboration between the two artists, who had a
feud in 2006 due to Nas' "Hip Hop Is Dead" statement and
album, which Young Jeezy took offense to.
Music
video
The music video was shot on Sunday, November 23, 2008 in
Atlanta, Georgia and features many supporters of Barack Obama
holding placards with various names written on them including
Mother Teresa, Sojourner Truth, Bamir Topi, Sali Berisha, Bernie
Mac, Sebastian Edwards, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas,
Bun B, Juelz Santana, William Shakespeare, The Game, Lil Boosie,Jam
Master Jay, Trick Daddy, David Banner, Akon, Jermaine Dupri, Pimp C
and Soulja Slim. Other placards name famous world figures like
Mahatma Gandhi and Che Guevara. The placards are meant to evoke
those held by delegations at national political conventions;
however, Hart elected to also include neighborhoods like
Queensbridge and countries like Haiti, Israel and Iraq. The Israel
placards caused offense to many Palestinians, including DJ Khaled
and Muslims because of Israel's onslaught in the Gaza Strip,
killing Palestinians in January 2009. Young Jeezy bought his
Lamborghini Murcielago for the music video in which he raps, "My
president is black, my Lambo is blue".
The video was directed by Gabriel Hart. The music video was released
on January 16, 2009 in preparation for Obama's inauguration. It
ranked at #44 on BET's Notarized: Top
100 Videos of 2009 countdown.
Remixes
The official remix features former Def Jam labelmate Jay-Z, it was leaked on the
internet on January 29, 2009. It was mentioned by Jay-Z, who
performed his verse live with Jeezy on January 18, 2009 at Love
Nightclub in Washington, D.C. Jay-Z's verse of the remix was
released on January 20, 2009, President Obama's inauguration, it
was called the "DC Mix". The remix also produced by Tha Bizness. Jeezy's
new verse of the remix is a diss to Bill O'Reilly. This is the second song
off the album that has a remix with Jay-Z, the first song was "Put On", the 1st single.
Chart
positions
References
- ^
MTV.com
- ^ "The 100 Best Songs of
2008". Rolling Stone (December 25, 2008). Retrieved
2008-12-25
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