President Obama’s new single cracks the Hot R&B charts, beats Ella Mai
Former POTUS hops on a Hamilton remix track... and proves yet again he is cooler than the others...
President Barack Obama is now a Billboard-charting artist to the list, thanks to Hamilton. His appearance on the song "One Last Time" which entered the Billboard's Hot R&B chart at No. 22.
Barack Obama is a man of many titles.
Beloved former U.S. president, best-selling author, Nobel Prize winner, Harvard educated attorney. And now, you can add Billboard-charting artist to the list, thanks to the record-shattering mega-hit of a musical Hamilton, a production he actually sparked the flame to get produced. He could drop the mic again right here.
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Obama appears on the “44 Remix” of the Hamilton song “One Last Time” which entered Billboard‘s R&B chart this week at No. 22 spot. The remix was released on Dec. 21 and features original cast member Christopher Jackson, Grammy Award-winning Gospel artist BeBe Winans, a full gospel choir, and the 44th President of the United States.
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The remix is the final installment of Lin Manuel Miranda‘s Hamildrops, a monthly series of Hamilton-related tracks where the money raised from streams and sales benefits nonprofits. Obama appears at the 1:43 mark of the track and reads part of George Washington‘s farewell address as a guitar and piano play in the background.
“Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error,” Obama says, reading Washington’s words. “I’m nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will view them with indulgence.
“I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers,” he continued.
Check out the track and tell us what you think of the former POTUS’s cameo:
