Let 'Em Know

Album: released as a single (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • Shaboozey released "Let 'Em Know" as the theme song to Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video. The song debuted on September 11, 2025 when the Green Bay Packers took on the Washington Commanders.

    The night-time NFL broadcasts often use existing songs repurposed for football; when Thursday Night Football was on the NFL network in 2012, Cee Lo Green contributed a song called "I Love Football" that was based on "Blitzkrieg Bop" by the Ramones. The longtime Monday Night Football theme music was "All My Rowdy Friends," which Hank Williams, Jr. adapted from one of his earlier songs. "Let 'Em Know," though, was made specifically for Amazon's football coverage.
  • The song fits into the Shaboozey universe, which most of us were introduced to in 2024 on "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," where he's a working stiff making the most of his time hanging out with friends at the bar. In "Let 'Em Know" he plays the same part, but he no longer has to wait for the weekend to get a little boozey with his buddies - they can let loose on Thursday night because football is on! Let 'em know.
  • The song was released exclusively on Amazon Music as part of their "Originals" series. Other artists to release Amazon Music Originals include Jimmie Allen and Taylor Swift.
  • Here's some of the football imagery in the lyrics:

    When the fans go out the band goes crazy when the drum line rolls on in
    Drum lines and marching bands are more common in college football but sometimes show up at NFL games.

    Every single down, we gonna let 'em know
    Outside of special teams, every play in football (the American kind anyway) is a "down."
  • The visual that goes with this song finds the Thursday Night Football at Shaboozey's place, which is a kind of football funhouse where every team gets a room for their wildest fans.
  • You can almost field a football team with the writers on this track. Along with Shaboozey, the credited writers are Sean Cook, Isak Hallen, John-Emil Johansson, Timothy Whitfield Kane, Kevin Joseph Powers and Jenson Vaughan.

    Sean Cook often collaborates with Shaboozey; he did production work on "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and co-wrote "Good News."

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