Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am was so inspired by Barack Obama’s concession speech in the New Hampshire presidential primary that he crafted the powerful speech into a musical collage that has been viewed on YouTube more than 21 million times. In the speech, Obama used what would become the catchphrase of his campaign: “Yes, we can,” the short yet powerful line that would come to propel the previously little-known Senator from Illinois to the presidency. will.i.am took that excitement and crafted it into an Emmy-winning video featuring a plethora of celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson, Common, John Legend and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, among others. In answering the question of why he recorded “Yes We Can,” will.i.am wrote on the Huffington Post, “That speech made me think of Martin Luther King, Kennedy and Lincoln, and all the others that have fought for what we have today.”
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