Things That Are Cool: White House Edition

The Excelano Project kids are cooler than you are. We've loved on them before, and we're going to do it again. Because the EP's own Josh Bennett performed at the White House yesterday. For Barack Obama, the coolest president...ever. Alongside James Earl Jones, aka DARTH VADER. So yeah, there's a whole lot of cool factor going on.

We can pretend we discovered Josh, as he was an Ego of the Week back in October, but we certainly can't claim responsibility for his performance at the NAACP Image Awards (with fellow EPer and EOTW Ben Alisuag) or his role on HBO's Brave New Voices.

Word on the street is that he performed "Tamara's Opus". The White House is a little slow to upload onto their YouTube channel, so for now we'll let you guys see his awesome performance of the piece at the Nuyorican Poetry Slam: