"We the People...." is a song by American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, and the first single from their sixth album, We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service. Produced by Q-Tip and co-produced by Blair Wells, the song contains a sample of the drum break of "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by Black Sabbath. The chorus of the politically-charged song parodies Donald Trump's presidential campaign. "We the People...." was critically acclaimed and included on several year-end lists by critics.

On November 13, 2015, A Tribe Called Quest reunited and performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, on the same night of the Paris attacks. Inspired by the energy of their performance, the group members put aside their differences and began recording a new album, We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, shortly thereafter. "We the People...." was one of the first songs recorded for the album, as it featured a verse from group member Phife Dawg, who died on March 22, 2016 before the album's completion.

Jayson Greene of Pitchfork called the song "a ferocious and driving song about intolerance and fear," adding that it "simply put, is a sliver-sized miracle, a crack of light illuminating the door in a dark wall. This is the function Tribe songs have always served—they point to a path through wilderness." Gil Kaufman of Billboard praised the song, noting that it "instantly became the national anthem of the anti-Trump nation."

At the end of 2016, The Village Voice named it the fifth best single of the year in their annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.Billboard ranked it the 10th best song of the year, while Pitchfork ranked it 11th, Consequence of Sound ranked it 25th, and NPR ranked it 34th.

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