Written by Sir Francis Scott Key
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Performed by Keedra Carroll
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Music produced and arranged by Jesse Bowens Jr.
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Rap by Jesse Lee Bowens (Preacha}
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1ST VERSE
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
(Laughter) Lies!
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RAP
I don't know if I should do this!
I don't know if I should do this!
People calling me the rudest!
So I don't know if I should do this!
People say I'm new at this?
Always trying to spit a diss!
Stab a back just like Brutus!
So I don't know if I should do this!
Nah!
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History will tell you that I'm tellin' ya'll the truth
Been called a nigger since early in my youth
My Mommie Annie taught me not to ever let my anger loose
But it was hard to drink that juice!
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(I went to their school)
Professor handing out a bad grade expecting me to fail
I'm the only black kid in class, I'm the only black male
Still fightin for a degree, yeah, fighting tooth and nail
They always expecting me to bail!
Whoooooo!
Momma always told me I had to be twice as good as the rest of em.
She said this country ain't given you nothing boy unless you the best of em.
They always killing our people, convicting, and arresting them.
Why they got a bullet proof vest on em'?
I stick out my chest to em!
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And yall want a nigga to vote potus
with no satisfaction like Otis
Our black people keepin focus
from all ya'll hocus pocus
I pledge no allegiance
When all ya'll give is greivance
Takin lives of the innocent
Don't believe me? Here go the list..
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SPEECH: "I HAVE A DREAM" by Martin Luther King