Kanye West backs Obama at DNC

Performs with Jamie Foxx on Wednesday








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Kanye West's repent on the day Barack Obama was nominated for president: that his mother, Donda, hadn't lived to experience it.

"It's an incredible time to be about. I wish my ma could get seen this day," the rapper told a crowd gathered for his performance early Thursday morning in Denver.

Jamie Foxx then coupled West onstage and delivered what was easily the strangest Obama song dedication at this week's Democratic National Convention.

"We make story, man," Foxx declared at the ONE campaign party. "With Obama, we make history. If you ready for Obama, make some noise. Yo man, let's do this for Obama."

Nobody said politics and amusement always commix smoothly. The pair then launched into their hit "Gold Digger," about money-grubbing women.

The party, sponsored by Bono's ONE anti-poverty hunting expedition and the Recording Industry Association of America, john Drew celebrities including Forest Whitaker and Ashley Judd, world Health Organization arrived with Foxx waving an American flag. Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle too walked the red carpet.

Some, including Daschle, left the club earlier West took the leg and roared through hits such as "Touch the Sky," "Home" and "Stronger."

Backed by a band clad in black outfits that seemed elysian both by Mad Max and the riot law ringing the convention sports stadium, the rap music star as well tried out two new songs he said he'd written in the past several years -- both more focused on relationships and grief than politics.