Songs for Armed Forces Day

The soundtrack to support our soldiers.

Songs for Armed Forces Day - Get your yellow ribbons ready. Tomorrow, May 18, is Armed Forces Day. It's a day to show your appreciation for the men and women fighting for us overseas—and those who have lost their lives doing so. And like any special day, any celebration, music can only make it better. Here, BET.com presents your Armed Forces Day soundtrack—it's the least we could do to show our support. (Photos from left: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson /Landov, John Shearer/Getty Images, Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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Songs for Armed Forces Day - Get your yellow ribbons ready. Tomorrow, May 18, is Armed Forces Day. It's a day to show your appreciation for the men and women fighting for us overseas—and those who have lost their lives doing so. And like any special day, any celebration, music can only make it better. Here, BET.com presents your Armed Forces Day soundtrack—it's the least we could do to show our support. (Photos from left: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson /Landov, John Shearer/Getty Images, Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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Destiny's Child, "Soldier (Remix)" feat. T.I. and Lil Wayne - One sure way to lift a soldier's spirits: being serenaded by this 2004 hit song by Destiny's Child. (Photo: Sony Music)

M.O.P., "Warriorz" - The adrenaline-pumping title track from these Brownsville soliders' underrated 2000 album is battle-tested and ready for combat. (Photo: EPIC Records)

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M.O.P., "Warriorz" - The adrenaline-pumping title track from these Brownsville soliders' underrated 2000 album is battle-tested and ready for combat. (Photo: EPIC Records)

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Eminem, "Soldier" - Eminem's 2002 album banger perfectly captures the bravery and strength of our armed forces. "I'm a soldier, these shoulders hold up so much, they won't budge, I'll never fall or fold up," he raps. (Photo: Scott Gries/PictureGroup)

"Rewind" - Nas told the story of a murder in the 'hood backwards on his track "Rewind" from Stillmatic. It would have been ill seeing a visual with the story being told from ending to beginning, too. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Nas, "Warrior Song" - Nas' 2002 duet with Alicia Keys pays tribute to soldiers everywhere, whether the battlefield or the streets. "Bravehearted and strong, definition of a warrior," Alicia sings. "Gonna keep marchin' on, to the sound of my own beating drum." (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Busta Rhymes - Busta joined the YMCMB squad in November 2011 and has yet to drop an album on the label. Busta has stayed busy with several mixtape-like albums and cameo features, however, and is supposed to finally drop his Cash Money debut, E.L.E..2 (Extinction Level Event 2), this year. (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BET)

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Busta Rhymes feat. M.O.P., "Ready for War" - M.O.P. provide the cavalry for Busta, running roughshod over enemy lines on this triumphant 2000 collabo. (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BET)

Young Buck

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Young Buck, "I'm a Soldier" - Young Buck's 2004 debut Straight Outta Cashville featured this epic call to arms, which ends with 50 Cent shouting out marching orders. (Photo: Interscope Records)

Get Out Your Seat, Hov! - One of the best lines in "Suit & Tie" is when Justin Timberlake says, "Get out your seat, Hov." Even better was when Jay-Z got out of his seat at the Grammy Awards to rap his verse when Justin summoned him. Can't get better than that!  (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

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Jay-Z, "A Ballad for the Fallen Soldier" - Jay-Z mourns lost street soliders on this touching, Neptunes-produced song from 2002's The Blueprint 2. (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

'Raise Up' by Petey Pablo - We all want to be at a Petey Pablo party swinging our shirts and just enjoying everything, but we live vicariously through this song instead. (Photo: Jive Records)

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Petey Pablo, "Raise Up (USA Flag Remix)" - North Carolina rapper Petey Pablo released a new patriotic version of his 2001 hit "Raise Up" after 9/11. The remix asks the listener to wave the stars and stripes in the air, and shouts out all the branches of the armed forces and several military bases. (Photo: Jive Records)

Tupac, "Soldier Like Me" feat. Eminem - Loyal to the Game is another posthumous Tupac album, but with a major twist: Emimem produced it, remixing previously recorded Pac songs. This song, which features Em on the hook, is the first on the album, and it rings out like a 21-gun salute. (Photos from left: C Flanigan/FilmMagic, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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Tupac, "Soldier Like Me" feat. Eminem - Loyal to the Game is another posthumous Tupac album, but with a major twist: Emimem produced it, remixing previously recorded Pac songs. This song, which features Em on the hook, is the first on the album, and it rings out like a 21-gun salute. (Photos from left: C Flanigan/FilmMagic, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)