‘Drug Free Like Me’ music video featuring leaders, community gains steam online

Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. wrote his own rap and taped it in one take.

A fun music video featuring Selma-Dallas County leaders rapping a drug-free message has been going viral since last week, garnering more than 60,000 views and counting.

It’s the latest music video made by Drug Free Communities of Dallas County's Junior Hope Dealers, an active group of teenagers who spread a drug-free message in their schools and throughout the community using creative means like music videos.

The 2022 song and accompanying music video is called “Drug Free Like Me” and was written by the Junior Hope Dealers and is rapped by their leader, Jerria Martin, executive director of Drug Free Communities of Dallas County, and by community leaders the teens chose to read their script that features them saying why it’s cool to be “Drug Free Like Me.”

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