Black
[00:00.40]Dave - Black
[00:23.12]Look black is beautiful black is excellent
[00:26.16]Black is pain black is joy black is evident
[00:29.04]It's workin' twice as hard as the people
[00:30.76]You know you're better than
[00:31.72]'Cause you need to do double
[00:32.83]What they do so you can level them
[00:34.66]Black is so much deeper than just african-american
[00:37.34]Our heritage been severed
[00:38.71]You never got to experiment
[00:40.23]With family trees
[00:41.28]Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed
[00:43.41]And show you pictures of our fam on their knees
[00:45.84]Tell us we used to be barbaric we had actual queens
[00:48.37]Black is watching child soldiers
[00:50.04]Getting' killed by other children
[00:51.51]Feelin' sick like
[00:52.32]Oh sh*t this could have happened to me
[00:54.34]Your mummy watching
[00:55.05]Telling stories 'bout your dad and your niece
[00:57.74]The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
[01:00.09]A kid dies the blacker the killer the sweeter the news
[01:02.67]And if he's white you give him a chance
[01:04.54]He's ill and confused
[01:05.66]If he's black he's probably armed
[01:07.43]You see him and shoot
[01:08.49]Look black is growin' up around the barbershop
[01:11.84]Mummy sayin' stay away from trouble
[01:13.61]You're in yard a lot
[01:14.74]Studying for ages appreciatin' the chance you got
[01:17.37]Cause black is in your blood
[01:18.58]And you ain't even got the heart to stop
[01:20.40]Black is steppin' in for your mother
[01:21.97]Because your father's gone
[01:23.14]And standin' by your children
[01:24.20]When you haven't proven karma wrong
[01:26.07]Black is doing all of the above
[01:27.74]Then goin' corner shoppin'
[01:28.86]Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off
[01:31.70]Black is growin' up around your family and makin' it
[01:34.40]Then being forced to leave the place
[01:36.07]You love because there's hate in it
[01:37.44]People say you fake the sh*t
[01:38.80]Never stayed to change the sh*t
[01:40.31]But black is being jealous you'd be dead
[01:42.19]If you had stayed in it
[01:43.40]Black is strugglin' to find your history
[01:45.12]Or trace the sh*t
[01:46.12]You don't know the truth about your race
[01:47.74]Cause they erasin' it
[01:48.81]Black has got a sour f**kin' flavour
[01:50.63]Here's a taste of it
[01:51.74]But black is all I know
[01:52.85]There ain't a thing that I would change in it
[02:06.08]Look black ain't just a single f**kin' colour
[02:07.90]Man there's shades to it
[02:09.06]Her hair's straight and thick b
[02:10.73]Ut mine's got waves in it
[02:11.89]Black is not divisive
[02:12.90]They been lying and I hate the sh*t
[02:14.62]Black has never been a competition
[02:16.24]We don't make this sh*t
[02:17.52]Black is deadly
[02:18.99]Black is when you're freezin' in your home
[02:20.66]And you can't get sleep but never feelin' empty
[02:23.02]Cause you got 20 cousins in your country living stress-free
[02:26.11]Walking for their water
[02:27.02]Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
[02:28.89]Black is distant
[02:29.90]It's representin' countries
[02:31.52]That never even existed while your grandmother was living
[02:34.42]Black is my ghanaian brother readin' into scriptures
[02:37.26]Doing research on his lineage
[02:38.63]Finding out that he's egyptian
[02:40.40]Black is people namin'
[02:41.41]Your countries on what they trade most
[02:43.18]Coast of ivory gold coast and the grain coast
[02:46.09]But most importantly to show
[02:47.45]How deep all this pain goes
[02:48.82]West africa benin they called it slave coast
[02:51.66]Black is so confusin'
[02:52.72]Cause the culture they're in love with it
[02:54.75]They take our features
[02:55.71]When they want and have their fun with it
[02:57.58]Never seem to help with all the things
[02:59.25]We know would come with it
[03:00.57]Loud in our laughter
[03:01.42]Silent in our sufferin'
[03:03.29]Black is being' strong inside and facing defeat
[03:05.58]Poverty made me a beast
[03:06.89]I battled the law in the streets
[03:08.46]We all struggled
[03:09.27]But your struggle ain't a struggle like me
[03:11.24]Well how could it be
[03:12.21]When your people gave us the odds that we beat
[03:14.28]I mean f**kin' hell
[03:15.19]What about our brothers that are stuck in jail
[03:17.48]That couldn't bust a bell
[03:18.50]They held a bird and gotta live with it
[03:20.61]Black is being guilty
[03:21.52]Until proven that you're innocent
[03:23.04]Black is sayin'
[03:23.80]Free my f**king niggas stuck inside in prison cells
[03:26.33]They think it's funny
[03:27.14]We ain't got nothing to say to them
[03:28.81]Unconditional love is strange to them
[03:30.78]It's amazing 'em
[03:31.69]Black is like the sweetest f**kin' flavour
[03:33.51]Here's a taste of it
[03:34.57]But black is all I know
[03:35.68]There ain't a thing that I would change in it
[00:23.12]Look black is beautiful black is excellent
[00:26.16]Black is pain black is joy black is evident
[00:29.04]It's workin' twice as hard as the people
[00:30.76]You know you're better than
[00:31.72]'Cause you need to do double
[00:32.83]What they do so you can level them
[00:34.66]Black is so much deeper than just african-american
[00:37.34]Our heritage been severed
[00:38.71]You never got to experiment
[00:40.23]With family trees
[00:41.28]Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed
[00:43.41]And show you pictures of our fam on their knees
[00:45.84]Tell us we used to be barbaric we had actual queens
[00:48.37]Black is watching child soldiers
[00:50.04]Getting' killed by other children
[00:51.51]Feelin' sick like
[00:52.32]Oh sh*t this could have happened to me
[00:54.34]Your mummy watching
[00:55.05]Telling stories 'bout your dad and your niece
[00:57.74]The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
[01:00.09]A kid dies the blacker the killer the sweeter the news
[01:02.67]And if he's white you give him a chance
[01:04.54]He's ill and confused
[01:05.66]If he's black he's probably armed
[01:07.43]You see him and shoot
[01:08.49]Look black is growin' up around the barbershop
[01:11.84]Mummy sayin' stay away from trouble
[01:13.61]You're in yard a lot
[01:14.74]Studying for ages appreciatin' the chance you got
[01:17.37]Cause black is in your blood
[01:18.58]And you ain't even got the heart to stop
[01:20.40]Black is steppin' in for your mother
[01:21.97]Because your father's gone
[01:23.14]And standin' by your children
[01:24.20]When you haven't proven karma wrong
[01:26.07]Black is doing all of the above
[01:27.74]Then goin' corner shoppin'
[01:28.86]Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off
[01:31.70]Black is growin' up around your family and makin' it
[01:34.40]Then being forced to leave the place
[01:36.07]You love because there's hate in it
[01:37.44]People say you fake the sh*t
[01:38.80]Never stayed to change the sh*t
[01:40.31]But black is being jealous you'd be dead
[01:42.19]If you had stayed in it
[01:43.40]Black is strugglin' to find your history
[01:45.12]Or trace the sh*t
[01:46.12]You don't know the truth about your race
[01:47.74]Cause they erasin' it
[01:48.81]Black has got a sour f**kin' flavour
[01:50.63]Here's a taste of it
[01:51.74]But black is all I know
[01:52.85]There ain't a thing that I would change in it
[02:06.08]Look black ain't just a single f**kin' colour
[02:07.90]Man there's shades to it
[02:09.06]Her hair's straight and thick b
[02:10.73]Ut mine's got waves in it
[02:11.89]Black is not divisive
[02:12.90]They been lying and I hate the sh*t
[02:14.62]Black has never been a competition
[02:16.24]We don't make this sh*t
[02:17.52]Black is deadly
[02:18.99]Black is when you're freezin' in your home
[02:20.66]And you can't get sleep but never feelin' empty
[02:23.02]Cause you got 20 cousins in your country living stress-free
[02:26.11]Walking for their water
[02:27.02]Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
[02:28.89]Black is distant
[02:29.90]It's representin' countries
[02:31.52]That never even existed while your grandmother was living
[02:34.42]Black is my ghanaian brother readin' into scriptures
[02:37.26]Doing research on his lineage
[02:38.63]Finding out that he's egyptian
[02:40.40]Black is people namin'
[02:41.41]Your countries on what they trade most
[02:43.18]Coast of ivory gold coast and the grain coast
[02:46.09]But most importantly to show
[02:47.45]How deep all this pain goes
[02:48.82]West africa benin they called it slave coast
[02:51.66]Black is so confusin'
[02:52.72]Cause the culture they're in love with it
[02:54.75]They take our features
[02:55.71]When they want and have their fun with it
[02:57.58]Never seem to help with all the things
[02:59.25]We know would come with it
[03:00.57]Loud in our laughter
[03:01.42]Silent in our sufferin'
[03:03.29]Black is being' strong inside and facing defeat
[03:05.58]Poverty made me a beast
[03:06.89]I battled the law in the streets
[03:08.46]We all struggled
[03:09.27]But your struggle ain't a struggle like me
[03:11.24]Well how could it be
[03:12.21]When your people gave us the odds that we beat
[03:14.28]I mean f**kin' hell
[03:15.19]What about our brothers that are stuck in jail
[03:17.48]That couldn't bust a bell
[03:18.50]They held a bird and gotta live with it
[03:20.61]Black is being guilty
[03:21.52]Until proven that you're innocent
[03:23.04]Black is sayin'
[03:23.80]Free my f**king niggas stuck inside in prison cells
[03:26.33]They think it's funny
[03:27.14]We ain't got nothing to say to them
[03:28.81]Unconditional love is strange to them
[03:30.78]It's amazing 'em
[03:31.69]Black is like the sweetest f**kin' flavour
[03:33.51]Here's a taste of it
[03:34.57]But black is all I know
[03:35.68]There ain't a thing that I would change in it
Dave - Black
Look black is beautiful black is excellent
Black is pain black is joy black is evident
It's workin' twice as hard as the people
You know you're better than
'Cause you need to do double
What they do so you can level them
Black is so much deeper than just african-american
Our heritage been severed
You never got to experiment
With family trees
Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed
And show you pictures of our fam on their knees
Tell us we used to be barbaric we had actual queens
Black is watching child soldiers
Getting' killed by other children
Feelin' sick like
Oh sh*t this could have happened to me
Your mummy watching
Telling stories 'bout your dad and your niece
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
A kid dies the blacker the killer the sweeter the news
And if he's white you give him a chance
He's ill and confused
If he's black he's probably armed
You see him and shoot
Look black is growin' up around the barbershop
Mummy sayin' stay away from trouble
You're in yard a lot
Studying for ages appreciatin' the chance you got
Cause black is in your blood
And you ain't even got the heart to stop
Black is steppin' in for your mother
Because your father's gone
And standin' by your children
When you haven't proven karma wrong
Black is doing all of the above
Then goin' corner shoppin'
Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off
Black is growin' up around your family and makin' it
Then being forced to leave the place
You love because there's hate in it
People say you fake the sh*t
Never stayed to change the sh*t
But black is being jealous you'd be dead
If you had stayed in it
Black is strugglin' to find your history
Or trace the sh*t
You don't know the truth about your race
Cause they erasin' it
Black has got a sour f**kin' flavour
Here's a taste of it
But black is all I know
There ain't a thing that I would change in it
Look black ain't just a single f**kin' colour
Man there's shades to it
Her hair's straight and thick b
Ut mine's got waves in it
Black is not divisive
They been lying and I hate the sh*t
Black has never been a competition
We don't make this sh*t
Black is deadly
Black is when you're freezin' in your home
And you can't get sleep but never feelin' empty
Cause you got 20 cousins in your country living stress-free
Walking for their water
Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
Black is distant
It's representin' countries
That never even existed while your grandmother was living
Black is my ghanaian brother readin' into scriptures
Doing research on his lineage
Finding out that he's egyptian
Black is people namin'
Your countries on what they trade most
Coast of ivory gold coast and the grain coast
But most importantly to show
How deep all this pain goes
West africa benin they called it slave coast
Black is so confusin'
Cause the culture they're in love with it
They take our features
When they want and have their fun with it
Never seem to help with all the things
We know would come with it
Loud in our laughter
Silent in our sufferin'
Black is being' strong inside and facing defeat
Poverty made me a beast
I battled the law in the streets
We all struggled
But your struggle ain't a struggle like me
Well how could it be
When your people gave us the odds that we beat
I mean f**kin' hell
What about our brothers that are stuck in jail
That couldn't bust a bell
They held a bird and gotta live with it
Black is being guilty
Until proven that you're innocent
Black is sayin'
Free my f**king niggas stuck inside in prison cells
They think it's funny
We ain't got nothing to say to them
Unconditional love is strange to them
It's amazing 'em
Black is like the sweetest f**kin' flavour
Here's a taste of it
But black is all I know
There ain't a thing that I would change in it
Look black is beautiful black is excellent
Black is pain black is joy black is evident
It's workin' twice as hard as the people
You know you're better than
'Cause you need to do double
What they do so you can level them
Black is so much deeper than just african-american
Our heritage been severed
You never got to experiment
With family trees
Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed
And show you pictures of our fam on their knees
Tell us we used to be barbaric we had actual queens
Black is watching child soldiers
Getting' killed by other children
Feelin' sick like
Oh sh*t this could have happened to me
Your mummy watching
Telling stories 'bout your dad and your niece
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
A kid dies the blacker the killer the sweeter the news
And if he's white you give him a chance
He's ill and confused
If he's black he's probably armed
You see him and shoot
Look black is growin' up around the barbershop
Mummy sayin' stay away from trouble
You're in yard a lot
Studying for ages appreciatin' the chance you got
Cause black is in your blood
And you ain't even got the heart to stop
Black is steppin' in for your mother
Because your father's gone
And standin' by your children
When you haven't proven karma wrong
Black is doing all of the above
Then goin' corner shoppin'
Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walking off
Black is growin' up around your family and makin' it
Then being forced to leave the place
You love because there's hate in it
People say you fake the sh*t
Never stayed to change the sh*t
But black is being jealous you'd be dead
If you had stayed in it
Black is strugglin' to find your history
Or trace the sh*t
You don't know the truth about your race
Cause they erasin' it
Black has got a sour f**kin' flavour
Here's a taste of it
But black is all I know
There ain't a thing that I would change in it
Look black ain't just a single f**kin' colour
Man there's shades to it
Her hair's straight and thick b
Ut mine's got waves in it
Black is not divisive
They been lying and I hate the sh*t
Black has never been a competition
We don't make this sh*t
Black is deadly
Black is when you're freezin' in your home
And you can't get sleep but never feelin' empty
Cause you got 20 cousins in your country living stress-free
Walking for their water
Daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
Black is distant
It's representin' countries
That never even existed while your grandmother was living
Black is my ghanaian brother readin' into scriptures
Doing research on his lineage
Finding out that he's egyptian
Black is people namin'
Your countries on what they trade most
Coast of ivory gold coast and the grain coast
But most importantly to show
How deep all this pain goes
West africa benin they called it slave coast
Black is so confusin'
Cause the culture they're in love with it
They take our features
When they want and have their fun with it
Never seem to help with all the things
We know would come with it
Loud in our laughter
Silent in our sufferin'
Black is being' strong inside and facing defeat
Poverty made me a beast
I battled the law in the streets
We all struggled
But your struggle ain't a struggle like me
Well how could it be
When your people gave us the odds that we beat
I mean f**kin' hell
What about our brothers that are stuck in jail
That couldn't bust a bell
They held a bird and gotta live with it
Black is being guilty
Until proven that you're innocent
Black is sayin'
Free my f**king niggas stuck inside in prison cells
They think it's funny
We ain't got nothing to say to them
Unconditional love is strange to them
It's amazing 'em
Black is like the sweetest f**kin' flavour
Here's a taste of it
But black is all I know
There ain't a thing that I would change in it
