A Dream

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A Dream is rapper Common's first single from the forthcoming Finding Forever album, released early as part of the soundtrack to the movie Freedom Writers. The song was produced by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, who also sings the chorus.

The song prominently samples Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous and historical "I Have A Dream" speech during the chorus.

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The video for the single contains scenes from the Freedom Writers movie (many of which feature Hilary Swank, its lead actress), mixed with partially animated sequences featuring will.i.am singing on a podium and Common rapping in hallways and rooms in front of stylized images of both the Holocaust and United States of America's black civil rights movement. Television footage of the "I Have A Dream" speech is displayed on monitors throughout the video. The imagery is intended to reinforce the song's messages of perserverance in the face of discrimination, and hopes for a more racially tolerant world.

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