Yes We Can

"**Yes We Can**" (also known as "**Obama Rap**") is a song by Ian Kibbe featuring Mars Argo, credited under her birth name Brittany Sheets. It was released to the DigitalFunTown YouTube channel on February 4th, 2008, along with an accompanying music video.

## Background

The track was written by Titanic Sinclair, credited under his birth name Corey Mixter, and features Kibbe in character as a rapping pizza, asking to be Barack Obama's running mate in the 2008 election.

## Lyrics

Hey Obama girl, how you doin?

Oh hey pizza supreme, just chillin'

Hey, I need your help

I've just fallen in love with Barack Obama

Yeah, I know how that is

I'm in Chicago and I just gotta find him and let him know

Well, what do you need him to know?

I wanna be his mate, his running mate

That's serious business

But I know, I got all the right ingredients

That's pretty cheesy

Yo, cheese is all I know

You're gonna need a partner, and a running mate

I'm hot from the oven, I'm great in debate

I keep a tight curly hair in a tiny locket

And a picture of you inside my pizza pocket

You represent hope and a brand new day

The other candidates smell like a wet toupée

You're funk and fresh, they're just cliché

You're the hot butter, they're just a [?]

You look muscular like you work out in gyms

And if you get hungry you can eat one of my limbs

I heard chilli is your favourite food

You must never met a pizza with such attitude

You'll be [?], and I'll be [?]

You'll be the mountain, I'll be the goats

You be the [?], I'll be the floats

You got the charm, I'll get the votes

Hey Barack, don't you dare stop

Gonna rock your campaign till the beat drop

Pizza, Barack, and Obama girl

Gonna take this party into the new world

Hey Barack, you need a V.P. and the man for the job is pizza supreme

Imma pizza, you're a black man

Can we win this election? Yes we can

Yo, did I mention that I have a very strong following among college students

And I also pose strongly with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

And the elderly

Went to your bookstore, and your barber shop

I saved you from some bandits with a Karate chop

Went to your headquarters and I stood outside

I want you and me to march for pizza pride

Went to the place where you first kissed ya wife

Who knew a Baskin Robins could change your life?

To be in politics I need a family of my own

But I'm not to worry cause I'm dating a Calzone

You wrote a couple books, I read them all

I bought em with Oprah when we went to the mall

Now I'm writing bout my struggle with oregano

And how he kept me on the streets, always needin' dough

Everybody likes pizza, I'm the perfect meal

They love my butter crust and my sex appeal

People say you're black when they look at your face

But when I look at your eyes I see the United States

Hey Barack, don't you dare stop

Gonna rock your campaign till the beat drop

It's undeniable I'd be the perfect V.P

You and me, Obama supreme on the marque

Hey Barack, you need a V.P. and the man for the job is pizza supreme

Imma pizza, you're a black man

Can we win this election? Yes we can

Yo, you and me Obama

Went to the Quantum Leaf

You're like- you're like Scott Bakula

And I'm like that other guy with that fancy calculator

It's gonna be just like that movie Deep Impact

When Sammy lil Jackson was president

Oh, I mean uh Morgan Freeman

And that Harvard kid Toby Maguire

Wait- shit, whatever, you know what I mean

Pizza, you so crazy

## Official versions

* Music video version – 3:20
	+ Instrumental – Unknown
		- Video snippet – 0:39

## References

1. ↑ digitalfuntown (February 4, 2008). "Obama Rap by Pizza Featuring Obama Girl-Yes We Can". *YouTube*. Retrieved May 28, 2022.