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Before President Barack Obama, the handsomest and coolest President of the United States was John F. Kennedy

DETAILS: A$AP Rocky & Lana Del Rey To Play JFK & Jackie O In “National Anthem” Video

Accompanied by his beautiful wife Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (later Onassis), John F. Kennedy and Jackie O were one of the nation’s most iconic couples. 

Jackie O’s classic beauty, stoic demeanor, and signature style made her one of the greatest style icons in American history.

Just this morning, A$AP Rocky announced that he and Born To Die singer Lana Del Rey will be playing JFK and Jackie O in Lana’s forthcoming video “National Anthem.”  

Being the original prototype for a cool politician, John F. Kennedy has served as intriguing subject matter for many of our favorite rappers.  

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From Jackie O references to parallels to JFK’s life, GlobalGrind rounded up 8 great hip-hop references to JFK and Jackie O.

Check them all out on the next few pages!

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Jay-Z “La La La (Excuse Me Miss Again)”

“He patterns his-self as rap’s JFK, you wanna pass for my Jacqueline Onassis, hop that ass out that S-Class”

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Rick Ross “Free Mason”

“My top back like JFK, They tryna push my top back like JFK, so I JFK”

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Erykah Badu “Window Seat” 

“Window Seat” was inspired by John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Erykah shot the video in Dallas, Texas almost near the “grassy knoll” where JFK was killed. Controversy surrounded the video because Erykah stripped down naked before being “shot” in the head with letters that spell out “groupthink” in her blue blood. The video ends with a message from Erykah about individuality, groupthink, and mob mentality:

“They play it safe. And are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel most comfortable in groups- less guilt to swallow.  They are us. This is what we have become.  Afraid to respect the individual. A single person who can vent her circumstance can move one to change. To love herself- to evolve.”

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Jay Electronica Featuring John F. Kennedy “The Announcement”

Jay Electronica used John F. Kennedy’s speech given at Rice University about sending a man to the moon at the beginning of his track “The Announcement.”

JFK’s 1962 Speech featured on “The Announcement” 

  • Its hazards are hostile to us all
  • Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind
  • And its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again
  • But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal?
  • And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain?
  • Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?
  • Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon!
  • We choose to go to the moon
  • We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things
  • Not because they are easy, but because they are hard
  • Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills
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Eminem “Public Enemy #1”
“Like that day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in broad day/By the greatest lunatic with a gun/Who just happened to work on the same block in the library book depository/Where the President would go for a little Friday stroll/Shots fired from the grassy knoll”

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Gil Scott Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

“News and no pictures of hairy armed women/Liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose”

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Lil Kim “Quiet”

“I know you sick when you clean your RIMS you still see a Bee/And we see you a LIAR, trying to DENY HER/Jackie O. proved you FAR from a FIGHTER”

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Miami Rapper, born Angela Kohn, made her stage name Jackie-O after John F. Kennedy’s iconic wife Jacqueline Onassis.