Posted Nov. 5, 2008 -- It didn't matter that the rapper Nas wasn't home on election night, because he made sure to have his contribution ready. The Queens-bred MC went into the studio on the morning of the historic presidential election, while on tour in Oslo, Norway, to record "Election Night" in honor of now President-elect Barack Obama.
On the song produced by DJ Green Lantern, Nas spits, "I'm a first-time voter, how can I front?/ Barack been campaigning like 21 months/ The whole country needs answers / While he has to deal with grandma dying from cancer/ He ain't even got time to weep/ And we standing on line when we normally don't/ People claim black people too lazy to vote."
This isn't the first time Nas has recorded a song inspired by Obama. His recently released "Untitled" LP features a track entitled "Black President," which will likely become an anthem in the wake of this victory.
Green Lantern told MTV via email that while he and Nas were at dinner discussing their whereabouts and how crazy it was that they were not in the United States for the election, someone quoted a line from his song "Black President" which said "What's the Black President thinking on election night?" That inspired Nas to want to go straight to the studio and write a spin-off song about "Election Night."
Though the song was recorded before the results were announced, Nas predicted in the song that Obama would win. He also says that he'll be at the inauguration.
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