[ar:Dave]
[ti:Black]
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[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 n**gas 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