Rapper Nas has recorded a song in honor of America's historic presidential election on Tuesday.

The hip-hop star missed the poll as he is currently on tour in Norway and decided on the eve of the vote to write a track, dedicated to the eventual winner Barack Obama.

Producer DJ Green Lantern tells MTV.com, "I'm currently on tour in Europe with Nas and we were at dinner talking about how crazy it is that we're not in the states on Election Day. Someone quoted his verse from (his song) Black President, when he said 'What's the Black Prez thinkin' on Election Night?' And Nas said,...

Hip-hop star Nas will defy his record label bosses at Def Jam when he releases The Nigger Mixtape - after he was pressured to drop the controversial word from the title of his forthcoming album.

The I Can hitmaker announced earlier this month that he will be changing the LP title from Nigger to Nas, in an effort to appease Def Jam executives' fears over the racially charged word.

However, on a forthcoming underground collaboration with fellow hip-hop star DJ Green Lantern, Nas will finally be able to use the name - and achieve his original aim of making a political statement about...