Your Essential Father's Day 2024 Playlist

We're saluting all dads with these songs.

The Essential Father's Day Song Playlist - The bond that fathers share with their children is unbreakable, important and one that deserves to be celebrated all year round. So, today BET.com isn't just celebrating dads, we're celebrating fathers in music that have dedicated songs to their dads, children or experience as a man raising a family. Click on to see some of the best Father's Day songs in existence and celebrate with the special men in your life!

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The Essential Father's Day Song Playlist - The bond that fathers share with their children is unbreakable, important and one that deserves to be celebrated all year round. So, today BET.com isn't just celebrating dads, we're celebrating fathers in music that have dedicated songs to their dads, children or experience as a man raising a family. Click on to see some of the best Father's Day songs in existence and celebrate with the special men in your life!

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"Dance With My Father" - Luther Vandross and his velvety voice brought the hit song, "Dance With My Father" to the masses back in 2003 and made sons, daughters and dads everywhere teary-eyed. In this ode to fathers, Vandross reminded us all to appreciate your loved ones while you have them here and take never take a moment for granted.

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"Dance With My Father" - Luther Vandross and his velvety voice brought the hit song, "Dance With My Father" to the masses back in 2003 and made sons, daughters and dads everywhere teary-eyed. In this ode to fathers, Vandross reminded us all to appreciate your loved ones while you have them here and take never take a moment for granted. (Photo: J Records)

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"Like Father, Like Son" featuring Busta Rhymes - Typically, Game comes off as one of the roughest and toughest rappers out, but his song "Like Father, Like Son" shows a softer side through a loving message to his baby boy. The rapper details the feelings and experience that he had from the minute the mother of his child went into labor until he arrived, and it's beautiful.

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Beyoncé, Dangerously in Love - After leading Destiny's Child to the top of the charts, Beyoncé emerged as a fully-formed superstar on her cocksure 2003 bow, backed by swaggering crowd-movers ("Crazy in Love") and attagirl anthems ("Me, Myself and I").

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"Daddy" - Having spent a large portion of her life in the spotlight, Beyoncé's relationship with her parents have always been public, so her song "Daddy" dedicated to her dad and then manager, Mathew Knowles was fitting for her solo debut album. (Photo: Sony Music Entertainment)

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"Glory" - Blue Ivy Carter is one of the pop world's princesses and her daddy, Jay Z knows it. Soon after Blue's arrival, Hov dropped the song "Glory" featuring the coos of his baby girl on the track a short time after her birth, proving how quickly life changes once a baby arrives.  

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"Glory" - Blue Ivy Carter is one of the pop world's princesses and her daddy, Jay Z knows it. Soon after Blue's arrival, Hov dropped the song "Glory" featuring the coos of his baby girl on the track a short time after her birth, proving how quickly life changes once a baby arrives. (Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images)

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"Just the Two of Us" - With a Bill Withers sample perfectly placed, Will Smith dropped "Just the Two of Us" back in 1997 when he was already a dad to his son Trey. The cool thing about this song and music video is that Jaden Smith was on his way and that you can catch a pregnant Jada Pinkett-Smith with her baby bump and all in the visual.  (Photo: Sony Music Entertainment) 

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"Just the Two of Us" - With a Bill Withers sample perfectly placed, Will Smith dropped "Just the Two of Us" back in 1997 when he was already a dad to his son Trey. The cool thing about this song and music video is that Jaden Smith was on his way and that you can catch a pregnant Jada Pinkett-Smith with her baby bump and all in the visual.

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"Isn't She Lovely" - Everyone knows the words to this song that is often played at weddings for ladies that remain daddy's girls. Stevie Wonder wrote this Songs In the Key of Life classic when his daughter Aisha was born and the lyrics explain it all.

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"Isn't She Lovely" - Everyone knows the words to this song that is often played at weddings for ladies that remain daddy's girls. Stevie Wonder wrote this Songs In the Key of Life classic when his daughter Aisha was born and the lyrics explain it all. (Photo: Motown Records)

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"Daughters" - Although Nas had chronicled his love for his daughter, Destiny in the songs "The World Is Yours" and "Me & You (Dedicated to Destiny)," it's his song "Daughters" that showed how his love for his daughter had grown as he reflected on her maturation process as well as his actions as her dad.

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"Daughters" - Although Nas had chronicled his love for his daughter, Destiny in the songs "The World Is Yours" and "Me & You (Dedicated to Destiny)," it's his song "Daughters" that showed how his love for his daughter had grown as he reflected on her maturation process as well as his actions as her dad. (Photo: The Island Def Jam Music Group)

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"Only One" - "Only One" is Kanye West's first song dedicated to his baby girl, North and it not only shows a different side of the rapper, it tells a story that connects his family to his mother who passed making the song that much sweeter. 

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"Only One" - "Only One" is Kanye West's first song dedicated to his baby girl, North and it not only shows a different side of the rapper, it tells a story that connects his family to his mother who passed making the song that much sweeter. (Photo: Good Music / Def Jam)

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"Letter To My Unborn Child" - With love deep in his heart, the late Tupac Shakur wrote a song to a future progeny that did not exist. In the song the rapper says, "to my unborn child in case I don't make it, just remember, daddy loves you." And yes, we're as emo as you are realizing how deep this is.

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"Letter To My Unborn Child" - With love deep in his heart, the late Tupac Shakur wrote a song to a future progeny that did not exist. In the song the rapper says, "to my unborn child in case I don't make it, just remember, daddy loves you." And yes, we're as emo as you are realizing how deep this is. (Photo: Amaru / Death Row / Interscope)

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"The Foundation" - Throughout life people learn that family is truly the root of life and that's exactly what Xzibit's song "The Foundation" expresses.

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"The Foundation" - Throughout life people learn that family is truly the root of life and that's exactly what Xzibit's song "The Foundation" expresses.

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Eminem featuring Nate Dogg, "Till I Collapse" - An amped up anthem from The Eminem Show, Em professes his undying passion and plans to never let up as Nate serves up a catchy hook. 

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"Hailie's Song" - Not one to ever hold back his feelings, Eminem exposed a much softer side of himself to the world on his track "Hailie's Song" dedicated to his daughter. (Photo: Aftermath Records / Interscope / Shady Records)

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"It's a Boy" - In on of hip hop's earlier songs dedicated to new life, Slick Rick rapped about his new son in a song titled, "It's a Boy."

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"It's a Boy" - In on of hip hop's earlier songs dedicated to new life, Slick Rick rapped about his new son in a song titled, "It's a Boy." (Photo: Def Jam)

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"Daddy" - Harlem rapper, Juelz Santana's "Daddy" is all about raising his son to the best of his ability, his fears about fatherhood and how he wants to be sure that he's always present in his baby's life. 

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"Daddy" - Harlem rapper, Juelz Santana's "Daddy" is all about raising his son to the best of his ability, his fears about fatherhood and how he wants to be sure that he's always present in his baby's life. (Photo: Diplomat / Def Jam)

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"Life" featuring Amerie - Stepping outside of the normal song dedicated to children, Royce Da 5'9" wrote "Life" to school his kids on the road ahead of them, hoping to steer them in the right direction from day one. (Photo: Game Recordings / Koch Records)

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"Life" featuring Amerie - Stepping outside of the normal song dedicated to children, Royce Da 5'9" wrote "Life" to school his kids on the road ahead of them, hoping to steer them in the right direction from day one. (Photo: Game Recordings / Koch Records)

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"Prayer For You" - Upon entering the realm of fatherhood for the first time, Usher's "Prayer For You" is dedicated to Usher "Cinco" Raymond V. It exposes the singer's love, hopes, and a little bit about his apprehension about his journey as a new father. But most of all, it shows his dedication to his new son.  (Photo: LaFace Records)

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"Prayer For You" - Upon entering the realm of fatherhood for the first time, Usher's "Prayer For You" is dedicated to Usher "Cinco" Raymond V. It exposes the singer's love, hopes, and a little bit about his apprehension about his journey as a new father. But most of all, it shows his dedication to his new son. (Photo: LaFace Records)

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"Pops Rap" - One way to honor fatherhood is to feature your father on a song and that's exactly what Common did on "Pops Rap." The track features his father Lonnie "Pops" Lynn who drops a few lines of spoken word is a collaboration full of love, respect and great music.

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"Pops Rap" - One way to honor fatherhood is to feature your father on a song and that's exactly what Common did on "Pops Rap." The track features his father Lonnie "Pops" Lynn who drops a few lines of spoken word is a collaboration full of love, respect and great music. (Photo: Relativity)

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