In an effort to reach young black voters, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson rolled out a new 60-second hip-hop ad featuring rapper Aspiring Mogul on Thursday.

The Carson campaign said the new ad, titled "Freedom," was created to target a younger generation of African-American voters in eight urban radio markets: Miami; Atlanta; Houston; Detroit; Birmingham, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Jackson, Mississippi, reports Politico. The $150,000 radio ad buy will debut on Friday and run for two weeks.

In the ad, Aspiring Mogul raps about the retired neurosurgeon and urges people to vote.

"Vote and support Ben Carson for our next president and be awesome," he raps. "If we want to get America back on track, we got to vote for Ben Carson matter of fact."

Clips of Carson's stump speech can also be heard throughout the ad.

"America became a great nation early on, not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now," Carson says.

"I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one that's willing to pick up the baton to freedom," he continues. "Because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for us because we are fighting for our children and the next generation."

Campaign spokesman Doug Watts told ABC News that the purpose of the ad was to reach younger black voters "on a level they appreciate and follow and see if we can attract their consciousness about the election. They need to get involved and express their voice through their vote."

Watts continued, "This happens to be a group that we feel pretty strongly is ready and prepared to start working for Ben Carson," adding that the advertisement signifies an "expressed articulation to another market, a non-traditional voting market for Republicans."

According to his campaign, Carson needs to win at least 20 percent of the black vote in order to beat Hillary Clinton in the general election. However, the latest national Quinnipiac University poll shows Carson trailing the Democratic front-runner by a huge margin among African-American voters -- 73 percent to 19 percent, reports CNN.

When asked about the new ad, Carson said that while he trusts his campaign advisers, he may have taken a different strategy in appealing to young, black voters.

"There are people in the campaign who felt that that was a good way to do things and, you know, they're entitled to their opinions," Carson said Thursday at a book signing in Florida. "I support them in doing that, but you know I probably would have taken a little different approach."

Listen to the ad below.