Will.i.am claims his song 'Yes We Can' won Barack Obama the American presidency in 2008.
The 43-year-old American musician-and-producer created the music video which entirely used quotations from the soon-to-be President of the United States, and despite Obama's campaign having no involvement in the video, the Black Eyed Peas star claimed it helped Obama get the White House.
Speaking to The i newspaper, he said: "That song went on to tip the election to where Obama became the Democratic nominee because it galvanised the youth. I don't like using the term 'virus', because anyone can catch a virus. I say 'baton' because a baton means effort: you have to run to the nearest person as fast as you can to pass it to them. So that song was baton-able and people shared it, and it was the first time a political figure running for office had a piece of content that gets seen 20 million times in a weekend, and he became the Democratic nominee after that."
The song - which was co-created by Bob Dylan's son Jesse - features a number of singers and actors including Scarlett Johansson, John Legend, Nicole Scherzinger, Tatyana Ali, Harold Perrineau and Aisha Tylor.
