Barack Obama’s annual summer playlist dropped Monday and included North Texas-raised Paul Russell’s 2023 hit single, “Lil Boo Thang.”
Former President Barack Obama, with President Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, participates in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, March 28, 2024, in New York.
“Lil Boo Thang,” by Paul Russell, is catchy and up-tempo, with a chorus that goes: “You my lil’ boo thang / So, I don’t give a hoot what your dude say.”The song, which samples The Emotions’ 1977 “Best of My Love,” was first released as a 21-second clip on TikTok as “fun content,” Russell toldAfter the snippet went viral, Russell put out a full-length version that now has more than 270 million streams on Spotify and more than 28 million views on YouTube.
With summer winding down, I wanted to share some songs that I’ve been listening to lately – and it wouldn’t be my playlist if it didn’t include an eclectic mix. I hope you find something new to listen to!The 26-year-old’s budding music career has taken him to stages overseas, but it has also brought him back to where he grew up.Russell moved to Allen in the fourth grade and graduated from high school there in 2015. In recent years, work limited his return visits to once or twice a year, he said.
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