I Got It From My Mama

Album: Songs About Girls (2007)
Charted: 38 31
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Songfacts®:

  • The Democratic party asked Will.i.am if they could turn this song into a campaign jingle - "I got it from my mama, I'm voting for Obama" - during the 2008 presidential election. However Will.i.am told his lawyer, "Dude, if you use that as the song, he'll never be our president." He explained to The Independent on Sunday May 17, 2009 that he refused to sanction the use of this song as "it's the wrong emotion." Will explained: "You don't send that party emotion out at a time when America's in a bad place, when there's nothing to celebrate. Dude, you got to make people cry with this song. It can't have no drums on it, cos if you have rhythm it'll suggest only a certain demographic agrees with whatever it is he's doing. It should only have guitar – and it should only be percussive or rhythmic by the way the guitar is plucked."

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