Hip-Hop Hillary? She Could Use This "Upgrade"

To: HillaryClinton

Subject: "Upgrade U"

So you want YouTubers to help select a campaign song -- "Send us your ideas!" you said in your latest online video.

Funny you should ask. We were at a club on Connecticut Avenue recently and one of Beyoncé's thumpin', heavy-on-the-bass ditties made us think of you. Maybe you've heard it, "Upgrade U"? It's about Beyoncé, the hardest-working woman in the biz, upgrading her man, CEO-rapper Jay-Z, still the baddest MC around.

First Jay raps: "How you gon' upgrade me? What's higher than number 1? You know I used to beat that block. Now I be's the block."

Then B sings: "I hear you be the block but I'm the lights that keep the streets on. . . You need a real woman in your life . . . Introduce you to some new things . . . Upgrade you."

See, you and Bill can be the B and Jay of politics. What with all this buzz about the Clinton dynasty (Bush in '88, Clinton in '92, Bush '00, Clinton '08?), and all the talk about you possibly being the first woman to head the White House.

Beyoncé does croon to Jay, "It's very seldom that you're blessed to find your equal."

Now, we're not saying you have to roll around on top of a mountain of bling, like she does in her music video, telling Jay, "Ya dynasty ain't complete without a chief like me."

But with Barack breathing down your neck and Bill's I-have-confidence-in-Hillary video being kinda so-so, we thought "Upgrade U" might give you some juice.

Hey, you did ask.

Originally published in the Washington Post.