November 10, 2008

New Jay-Z Track Celebrates Obama Win

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mojo-photo-jayz.jpgVarious web sites seem to be in disagreement about whether this new Jay-Z track was “officially” released or just leaked, but either way, it’s on the internet and you can hear it. It’s called “We Made History” and apparently celebrates Barack Obama’s win on Tuesday with lyrics like “Where are you, victory? I need you desperately/Not just for the moment, to make history.” The track was produced by Kanye West (in his new, ultra-basic synth-y style) and features the vocals of singer Tony Williams. It’s got an appropriate lighters-in-the-air tempo, but resembles nothing so much as a cross between The Cars’ “Drive” and a Chinese love song, and I’m not sure I’m down with it. But then again I thought “Love Lockdown” was weird at first and now I think it’s awesome, so maybe I should just trust Kanye.

Listen or download “We Made History” here.

Also: this is the Riff’s 1,000th post. Hooray! There’s cake in my office! Not really! Either way, thanks for putting up with me, MoJo staff and readers. Now if we could just get more of the Jonesians to post stuff over here, we could almost have a real blog…

Photo by Flickr user Kim Erlandsen used under a Creative Commons license.

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