I'm Black (feat. Just Steve)
Tommie Billups
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I wanna get the language so right that everybody here will cry out, yes, I'm black, I'm proud Of it, I'm black and beautiful It's okay to be black until you're too black Now you an outcast, slap that on three stacks I can't even celebrate my heritage without some people getting mad and mixing up my messages That's sad We don't hate y'all, we just love us Melanated skin, sprinkled with that gold dust. 400 years since the great American gold rush Now that gold's turning money so is it And black we trust, so many of my people, yeah they had to fight for it Freedom wasn't a choice, my people had to die for it We invented culture, y'all just adopted it But if I celebrate it, I'm rude, that's cool All black everything, I'm black everything I'ma let my voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring So y'all gon' hear me scream, black to the day I die When I have more kids, y'all gon' watch this black multiply If you ain't heard by now, I'm black And whether you like it or not, it don't matter Cause we gon' celebrate it You wanna know why Cause I'm black y'all, yeah I'm black y'all Cause I'm black and he black, yeah I'm black y'all I'm black y'all, yeah I'm black y'all I'm black and he black, yeah I'm black y'all Ah, melanated sunbathed and brown shaded That statement got us chained up and towns raided But look how far we done made it From slave ships to high places, of course I'm finna celebrate it We keep it rockin' like the chair granny sat on Can't understand why it's so hard for y'all to catch on When's the last time you saw a painting in a black home So I'ma go hard for any business this black own And lovin' black don't mean we don't love y'all color Lovin' black actually means we love all colors Black boy joy plus black girl magic Black love is what I pray the whole wide world catches While I'm at it, I hate the way the media paints us Matter of fact, if it ain't got soul, yo it ain't us Too many roses out here parkin' on the same bus We bringin' flavor to the table, y'all should probably thank us My black mamas, my black babies, my black daughters, my black sons, my black kings Black is beautiful, and we gon' let the world know I'm black y'all, I'm black y'all, I'm blackity black, I'm black black y'all Big head, big smile, big laugh, big style, I'm big proud, I don't know how to act small I think what you're trying to ask is why am I so insistent giving out to them that blackness That black power, that black pushing them to identify with black culture I have no choice over it in the first place. To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world Black people, and I mean that in every sense My job is to somehow make them curious enough, or persuade them to get more aware of themselves And where they came from and what they are into and what is already there, just to bring it out This is what compels me to compel them And I will do it by whatever means necessary
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