DoubleSpeak’s good friend Ari Melber wrote a piece over at The Nation about a “star-studded” video just released on the interwebs.

Ari writes:

On Saturday, YouTuber user “WeCan08″ uploaded “Yes We Can,” a music video for a new Obama ballad by the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am and director Jesse Dylan, Bob Dylan’s son. The “song” was essentially written by Barack Obama, since the lyrics are adapted from his “Yes We Can” speech after the New Hampshire primary. That speech, of course, was inspired by Cesar Chavez’s motto for a United Farm Workers hunger strike in 1972. Excerpts of Obama play throughout the video, with accompaniment from stars like John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Common, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali and Nick Cannon. The video was first reported by ABC News, which interviewed the creators.

There’s no telling if this video will catch on, but musicians have turned political speeches into popular songs before. The most famous example is Haile Selassie’s 1963 address to the UN, which Bob Marley put to music in the song “War.”

If you haven’t had a chance to see the video, you have to take a look. Pretty powerful stuff.