Everyone from Kirk Franklin to LeBron James and Katy Perry have praised the a cappella original. Keedron Bryant has given voice to what many people are feeling these days in the wake of the police-related death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The 12-year-old singer has drawn praise, and millions of views, for his moving a cappella performance of the original song "I Just Want to Live," uploaded on Wednesday in the form of a simple video in which he passionately sings what it feels like to look like him in America right now. "I'm a young black man/ Doing all that I can/ To stand, oh but when I look around/ And I see what's being done to my kind/ Every day, I'm being hunted as prey," he sings, looking directly into the camera while
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