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Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent |
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Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident |
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It's working twice as hard |
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As the people you know you're better than |
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'Cause you need to do double what they do so you can level them |
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Black is so much deeper than just African-American |
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Our heritage been severed, |
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You never got to experiment with family trees, |
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'Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed |
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And show you pictures of our fam on their knees |
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Tell us we used to be barbaric, we had actual Queens |
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Black is watching child soldiers |
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Getting killed by other children |
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Feeling sick, like "oh **** this could have happened to me" |
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Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories 'bout your dad and your niece |
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The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice |
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A kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news |
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And if he's white you give him a chance, he's ill and confused |
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If he's black he's probably armed, you see him and shoot |
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Look, black is growing up around the barbershop |
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Mummy saying stay away from trouble, you’re in yard a lot |
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Studying for ages, appreciating the chance you got |
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'Cause black is in your blood, |
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And you ain't even got the heart to stop |
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Black is stepping in for your mother because your father's gone |
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Standing by your children when you haven't proven karma wrong |
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Black is doing all of the above then going corner shopping |
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Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off |
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Black is growing up around your family and making it |
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Then being forced to leave the place you love |
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Because there's hate in it |
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People say you fake the ****, |
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Never stayed to change the **** |
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But black is being jealous, |
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You'd be dead if you had stayed in it |
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Black is struggling to find your history or trace the **** |
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You don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasing it |
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Black has got a sour ******* flavor, here's a taste of it |
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But black is all I know, |
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There ain't a thing that I would change in it |
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Look, black ain't just a single ******* color, |
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Man there's shades to it |
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Her hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it |
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Black is not divisive they been lyin' and I hate the **** |
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Black has never been a competition, |
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We don't make this **** |
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Black is deadly |
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Black is when you're freezing in your home |
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And you can't get sleep |
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But never feeling empty, |
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'Cause you got twenty cousins in your country living stress free |
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Walking for their water, |
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Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet |
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Black is distant, it's representing countries |
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That never even existed while your grandmother was living |
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Black is my Ghanaian brother reading into scriptures |
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Doing research on his lineage, findin' out that he's Egyptian |
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Black is people naming your countries on what they trade most |
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Coast of Ivory, Gold Coast, and the Grain Coast |
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But most importantly to show how deep all this pain goes |
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West Africa, Benin, they called it slave coast |
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Black is so confusing, 'cause the culture? |
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They're in love with it |
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They take our features when they want |
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And have their fun with it |
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Never seem to help with all the things |
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We know would come with it |
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Loud in our laughter, silent in our sufferin' |
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Black is being strong in sight of facing defeat |
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Poverty made me a beast, I battled the law in the streets |
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Well you were struggled, |
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But your struggle ain't a struggle like me |
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Well how could it be |
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When your people gave us the odds that we beat? |
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I mean, ******* hell, |
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What about our brothers that are stuck in jail? |
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That couldn't bust a bell, they held a bird |
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And gotta live with it |
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Black is being guilty until proven that you're innocent |
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Black is saying "free my ******* ****** |
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Stuck inside in prison cells" |
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They think it's funny, we ain't got nothing to say to them |
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Unconditional love is strange to them; it's amazin' 'em |
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Black is like the sweetest ******* flavor, |
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Here's a taste of it |
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But black is all I know, |
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There ain't a thing that I would change in it |
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