The movie deals a lot with breaking color barriers. How do you think your characters would have reacted to Obama's victory?
Mos Def: Chuck Berry talking to Barack Obama -- I have a feeling that it already happened. I'd like to be a fly on the wall in that conversation. Wow, what's Chuck Berry going to say to Barack Obama? I'm open for that inauguration gig, I just want to let you know.
Cedric the Entertainer: Willie [Dixon] would want to write a song "Barack Obama Ain't Got the Blues No More, I'm the President Dammit." It's a great song. I'm still working on it.
Eamonn Walker: Anyone who sees the movie will draw the poignancy that we now have a president elect who is an African-American.

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