Black (Explicit)

Look black is beautiful black is excellent
Black is pain black is joy black is evident
It's working 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
Feeling sick like oh s**t this could have happened to me
Your mummy watchin' tellin' 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 growing up around
The barbershop
Mummy saying stay away from trouble you're in yard a lot
Studying for ages appreciating the chance you got
'Cause black is in your blood
And you ain't even got the heart to stop
Black is stepping in for your mother because your father's gone
Standing by your children when you haven't proven karma wrong
Black is doing all of the above then going corner shopping
Tryna help a lady 'cross the road to have her walking off
Black is growing up around your family and making it
Then being forced to leave the place
You love because there's hate in it
People say you fake the s**t never stayed to change the s**t
But black is being jealous you'd be dead
If you had stayed in it
Black is struggling to find
Your history or trace the s**t
You don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasing it
Black has got a sour f**king flavor here's a taste of it
But black is all I know there ain't a thing
That I would change in it
Change in it
Change in it
Change in it
Change in it
Look black ain't just a single f**king color man
There's shades to it
Her hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it
Black is not divisive they been lyin' and I hate the s**t
Black has never been a competition we don't make this s**t
Black is deadly
Black is when you're freezing
In your home and you can't get sleep
But never feeling empty 'cause you got twenty cousins
In your country living stress free
Walking for their water daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet
Black is distant it's representing countries
That never even existed while your grandmother was living
Black is my ghanaian brother reading into scriptures
Doing research on his lineage findin' out
That he's egyptian
Black is people naming 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 confusing '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 in sight of facing defeat
Poverty made me a beast I battled the law in the streets
Well you were 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**king 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 saying free my f**king n***as 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 amazin' 'em
Black is like the sweetest f**king flavor here's a taste of it
But black is all I know there ain't
A thing that I would change in it