President Barack Obama never fails to give us life! Last night he guest starred on The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon and assisted in slow-jamming the news. With only eight months left in office, this would serve as his final appearance on the show while president.
Although they were joking around, Obama, Jimmy, and Black Thought touched on some very vital subjects — first reminding the people of the progress Obama made during his tenure in office. Obama reminded the people that when he first entered office in 2008 America was in one of the worst recessions in history but he created 14 million new jobs, dropping the unemployment rate down to 5%. In short he got the country back on track.
Black Thought said, “he created jobs for you and me and he’s got one more left for Hilary!”
Oh, hey, Hilary endorsement!
“thanks to the Affordable Care Act, an additional 2 million Americans now have access to quality health care and same sex couples across the country now have a constitutional right to marry. In short, climate change is real, health care is affordable, and love is love,” Obama sang.
Jimmy made sure to follow up with the shade every time! He threw a little Beyonce comparison in there of course — “when Republicans have him lemons he made so much lemonade. Beyonce started to call
him Baracky with the good hair!”
Black Thought tag teamed with Jimmy saying, “His first two terms ended in such a hurry. Wish he could for for three like my man Steph Curry.”
We’re telling y’all, it was pure entertainment but you have to respect them for delivering the facts in such a dope way.
Talk about dope?! Obama brags that he already has his post-presidential vacation aligned — the Obamas will be taking on Hawaii! How dope is that?
“There will be no third term, j can’t stay forever. Besides, daddy’s for a Hawaiian vacation booked in about 223 days. But who’s counting?” He sang.
That’s not all though, the number couldn’t be complete without some Donald Trump shade.
“Now I know some of the presidential candidate have been critical of my foreign policy. I don’t want to name any names,” he said with some assistance from Black Thought who did the name dropping, “he’s talking about Donald Trump!” Obama continued, “but I believe it is of the upmost importance to work alongside other world leaders. That’s why I signed the Iran Nuclear deal. That’s why we re-opened diplomatic ties with Cuba. And that’s why I negotiated the new trade deal called the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP.”
In case you’re wondering if Obama is down with TPP, he wants you to know, “yeah you know me!”
What’s the TPP? According to Obama, it allows “American businesses to sell their products both at home and abroad,” he explained. “The more we sell abroad, the more higher paying jobs we provide here at home. It’s that simple…. This trade deal will help put everyday Americans back to –” and this is where things got spicy! “Work, work, work, work, work, work!”
Yes! They broke out with a snippet of Rihanna’s “Work” and Obama was definitely here for it!
But wait, now about his super shade, “Orange is NOT the new black!”
Black Thought ended the slow jam with a popular quote, improvising for the moment, “once you go Barack you will never go back!”
And then y’all know what Obama did after that, right?
*drops mic*
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