25 Songs That Could Definitely Be The US National Anthem

1.Swag Surfin’” — Fast Life Yungstaz

Most anthemic lyric: “I’m on Hypnotic, exotic / This Polo on my body / Got a bad girl beside me / And her friend right behind me.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Yeah we knuckin and buckin and ready to fight / I betcha Im’a throw dem thangs / So haters best to think twice.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Spaceships don’t come equipped with rearview mirrors / They dip as quick as they can / The atmosphere is now ripped / I’m so like a Pip, I’m Gladys Knight.”

Most anthemic lyric: “I need a girl to ride, ride, ride/ I need a girl to make my wife / I need a girl who’s mine oh mine / I need a girl in my life.”

5.I Need A Girl (Part 2)” — P. Diddy feat. Mario Winans, Ginuwine, and Loon

Most anthemic lyric: “Roll through rough, I got the range / Ma I got some thangs, knowned to put rocks in rings / Push a hundred foot yachts and thangs.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Stop, drop, shut ‘em down open up shop Oh, no / That’s how Ruff Ryders roll.”

7.Heartbreaker” — Mariah Carey

Most anthemic lyric: “Heartbreaker, you got the best of me / But I just keep on coming back incessantly / Oh why, did you have to run your game on me / I should have known right from the start / You’d go and break my heart.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Who cares when it feels like crack? / Boy you know that you always do it right / Man, fuck your pride, just take it on back, boy.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Ay, where the party at? / Girls is on the way, where the Bacardi at?”

11.Formation” — Beyoncé

Most anthemic lyric: “My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana / You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama / I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros / I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils.”

12.Love On Top” — Beyoncé

Most anthemic lyric: “Now everybody asks me why I’m smiling out from ear to ear (They say love hurts) / But I know (It’s gonna take a real work) / Nothing’s perfect, but it’s worth it after fighting through my tears / And finally you put me first.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Up in the club, we just broke up / I’m doing my own little thing / You decided to dip but now you wanna trip / ‘Cause another brother noticed me.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Do you remember the time (When we fell in love) /
Do you remember the time (When we first met girl) / Do you remember the time
(When we fell in love) / Do you remember the time.”

Most anthemic lyric: “There’s a boy I know, he’s the one I dream of / Looks into my eyes, takes me to the clouds above / Ooh I lose control, can’t seem to get enough / When I wake from dreaming, tell me is it really love.”

Most anthemic lyric: “Cash Money Records taking over for the 99 and 2000…”

17.Real Love” — Mary J. Blige

Most anthemic lyric: “I’m searching for the real love / Someone to set my heart free / Real love / I’m searching for a real love.”

18.September” — Earth, Wind, & Fire

Most anthemic lyric: “Our hearts were ringing / In the key that our souls were singing / As we danced in the night / Remember how the stars stole the night away.”

19.Hot Boyz” — Missy Elliot

Most anthemic lyric: “Hot boyz Baby YOU got what I want / See y’all be drivin’ those Lexus jeeps, and Benz jeeps and the Lincoln jeeps / Nothin’ cheaper wit’ the Platinum Visa.”

20.Candy” — Cameo

Most anthemic lyric: “It’s like candy / I can feel it when you walk / Even when you talk it takes over me.”

Most anthemic lyric: “There’s a new me coming out / And I just had to live / And I want to give / I’m completely positive.”

22.1, 2 Step” — Ciara

Most anthemic lyric: “Automatic supersonic hypnotic funky fresh / Work my body so melodic / This beat flows right through my chest.”

23.Hey Ya!” — Outkast

Most anthemic lyric: “You think you’ve got it / Oh, you think you’ve got it / But “got it” just don’t get it / ‘Til there’s nothing at all.”

24.All For You” — Janet Jackson

Most anthemic lyric: “All my girls at the party / Look at his body / Shakin’ that thing like I never did see / Got a nice package alright / Guess I’m gonna have to ride it tonight.”

25.Wobble” — V.I.C

Most anthemic lyric: “Girl wobble it, and I’ma gobble it / I see you movin’ your head, your head bobblin’ / We can cradle the bed I’m straight rockin’ it.”

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