Nas is the first hip hop artist to write a song about Barack Obama and his historic nomination for President. MTV has the exclusive preview, and reports on reactions to Obama’s nomination from Sean Diddy Combs, Young Jeezy and other hip hop artists.

“Today is one of the greatest and proudest moments of my life,” Diddy said Wednesday (June 4) of Obama’s nomination. “Not just as a black man, but as an American. Senator Obama becoming the Democratic nominee for president is history in the making and proof that we do live in the greatest country in the world!”

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“It goes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,” Young Jeezy raps at the beginning of The-Dream’s “I Luv Your Girl.” The Snowman says he’s been really interested in the political race this year.

“For real, as bad as we try to ignore it and act like it ain’t got nothing to do with us, it’s real,” Jeezy said about what some people in the black community have felt. “What [the rest of the country] feared for a long time, a black president, it could possibly happen right now.”

Jeezy said any of this year’s presidential hopefuls will do a better job than our current president. He wore a shirt onstage at Sunday’s Hot 97 Summer Jam that read, “F— Bush.”

“I know however it comes out, [the election] is gonna affect all of us,” Jeezy added. “It’s like trying to fix a record label that’s bankrupt. These different households — middle class [or] people on Wall Street waking up bankrupt every day when the stocks ain’t the same. It’s a hard job for any one person to fix the country. It’s a lot of people. I can’t make everybody happy in my family. I know damn well can’t nobody make everybody happy in the country. You gotta deal with too many issues.”

For months, hip-hop artists such as Will.I.Am, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, the Game, Jay-Z and 50 Cent have been publicly supportive of Obama’s quest for the Oval Office.

“I heard Obama speak,” 50 told MTV News earlier this year. “He hit me with that he-just-got-done- watching-’Malcolm X’ [thing], and I swear to God, I’m like, ‘Yo, Obama!’ ”

He then threw his fist in the air. “I’m Obama to the end now, baby!”

It’s no surprise that the thought-provoking Nas would be the first hip-hop artist to drop a song about Obama’s run for the presidency. MTV News has a received a new song by the mic savant called “Black President.” (Check out the song right here!) The record conveys Nas’ hopes for Obama, should he win the election, and touches on some of the hardships he could face along the way.

The cut, produced by DJ Green Lantern, starts with Obama being introduced as the next president of the United States. It then goes into Obama’s speech from Tuesday night. The track builds with a sample of Tupac Shakur’s voice: “Although it seems heaven-sent, we ain’t ready to have a black president.”

Source: Diddy, Young Jeezy, Respond To Barack Obama’s Historic Nomination; Check Out Nas’ New Song: ‘Black President’

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UPDATE: Nah Right has the full version of the song – Nas – Black President (FULL)

Video: Nas “Black President” – New Barack Obama Song (Preview Clip)