1. "My President Is Black (Remix)" - JAY-Z

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"Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther could walk/Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run."

2. “What We Talkin’ About” - JAY-Z

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“And now that that's that, let's talk about the future / We have just seen the dream as predicted by Martin Luther."

3. “Made In America” - JAY-Z

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“Sweet king Martin, sweet queen Coretta / Sweet brother Malcolm, sweet queen Betty / Sweet Mother Mary, sweet father Joseph / Sweet Jesus, we made it in America.”

4. “HIIIPOWER” - Kendrick Lamar

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“Visions of Martin Luther staring at me.”

5. “Backseat Freestyle” - Kendrick Lamar

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“Martin had a dream / Martin had a dream / Kendrick have a dream.”

6. “MLK” - U2

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“Sleep tonight / And may your dreams / Be realized.”

7. “Pride In The Name Of Love” - U2

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“Early morning, April 4th / Shot rings out in the Memphis sky / Free at last, they took your life / They could not take your pride.”

8. “We Shall Overcome” - Bruce Springsteen (Pete Seeger Cover)

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“Oh, deep in my heart / I do believe / We shall overcome some day.”

9. “Maybach Music 2” - T-Pain, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West

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“Martin Louie the King Jr / Starting all that stunting is gonna ruin you.”

10. “By The Time I Get To Arizona” - Public Enemy

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“Talking MLK, gonna find a way.”

11. “Fight The Power” - Public Enemy

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“Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be / Lemme hear you say / Fight the power.”

12. “I Have A Dream” - will.i.am and Common

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“It's a Cold War - I'm a colder soldier / Hold the same fight that made Martin Luther the King.”

13. “One Vision” - Queen

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“I had a dream when I was young / A dream of sweet illusion / A glimpse of hope and unity / And visions of one sweet union.”

14. “Don’t Hold Your Applause” - Wale

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Lyric: “And I be feeling Malcolm, Martin, and Pac would defend me.”

15. “Proud To Be Black” - Run DMC

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“Like Martin Luther King, I will do my thing / I'll say it in a rap cause I do not sing.”

16. “Like A King” - Ben Harper

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“Like a king, like a king, like a king / How I wish you could help us Dr. King.”

17. “Do Your Time” - Ludacris

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“Give my eyes to Stevie Wonder just to see what he's seen / But then I'd take 'em right back to see Martin Luther's dream / I'd dream that I could tell Martin Luther we made it / But half of my black brothers are still incarcerated.”

18. “Doin’ It Again” - The Roots

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Lyric: “I'm like Martin Luther King, you like Rodney / The difference is I give it everything inside me.”

19. “Happy Birthday” - Stevie Wonder

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“The dream as clear as he that they should make it become an illusion / And we all know everything / That he stood for time will bring / For in peace our hearts will sing / Thanks to Martin Luther King.”

20. “Sideline Story” - J. Cole

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“But homie if you change, may you change for the better / Back when Martin King had a thing for Coretta / Wonder if she seen all the dreams he was dreamin' / Did she have a clue of all the schemes he was schemin.’”

21. “Ghetto Classics” - Ying Yang Twins

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“And y'all forgot about the earlier times / When Martin Luther King had a dream / That one day we'd walk together.”

22. “Letter To The King” - Nas and The Game

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“I've been meanin' to do me some letter readin' / To the King, he forever breathin', your message is never leavin.’”

23. “My President” - Nas and Jeezy

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“Stuntin' on Martin Luther, feeling just like a King / Guess this is what he meant when he said that "he had a dream.”

24. "2000 And Beyond" - Big K.R.I.T.

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"Martin Luther King had a dream; we was right there/I wonder what he saw when he up and had nightmares?/Quite scared, all the work he had done/Couldn't stop what we've become in 2000 and beyond."

25. "Word To The Mother (Land)" - Big Daddy Kane

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"Martin Luther was a tutor; many were pupils/Those who fell victim were those without scruples."

26. “Glory” - Common and John Legend

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“Selma's now for every man, woman and child / Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd.”

27. "Doin' It Again" - The Roots feat. John Legend

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"Doin' it again just like Poitier and Cosby/I'm like Martin Luther King; you like Rodney/The difference is I give it everything inside me."

28. "B.M.F. (Build Minds Faster)" - Lupe Fiasco

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"I think I'm Malcolm X, Martin Luther/Add a King, add a Junior/Some Bible verses, couple Sunnahs/an AK-47-that's a revolution."

29. "Dirty Mef" - Method Man feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard

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"Ya'mean, I'm taking one for the team/Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream."

30. "A Boy Was Conceived" - Ice Cube

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“Only three short years after the 1965 Watts Riots/ And the death of Malcolm X/ And of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr./, A boy was conceived, who's lyrics would change the world.”

31. "They Killed Him" - Bob Dylan

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“Another man from Atlanta, Georgia, By name of Martin Luther King/ He shook the land like the rolling thunder/ And made the bells of freedom ring today/ With a dream of beauty that they could not burn away.”

32. "One" - India.Arie

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“Gandhi was a Hindu/ Martin Luther King, a Christian/ God is a religion, they knew love was the vision/ And it all comes down to one.”

33. "Demons" - A$AP Rocky

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“Give me the beat, and let me lean, tap the vein, let it stream Feel the pain, Young Martin Luther King, with a dream.”

34. "Dreams" - The Game

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“Cause Martin Luther King had a (dream)/ Aaliyah had a (dream), Left Eye had a (dream)/ So I reached out to Kanye and (I brought you all my dreams).”

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