All Black Everything-Lupe Fiasco

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[00:00.00]All Black Everything - Lupe Fiasco
[00:07.16]Sometimes
[00:09.97]You just gotta
[00:11.85]Go
[00:12.22]You would never know what you could ever be
[00:16.74]If you never tried you would never see
[00:17.99]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave
[00:19.61]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )
[00:21.18]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery
[00:23.05]Call me crazy or isn't he
[00:29.99]See I fell asleep and I had a dream
[00:31.36]It was all black everything
[00:33.17]Uh and we ain't get exploited
[00:36.43]White man ain't fear it so he did not destroy it
[00:40.80]We ain't work for free see they had to employ it
[00:43.11]Built it up together so we equally appointed
[00:46.05]First 400 years see we actually enjoyed it
[00:51.24]Constitution written by W E B DeBois
[00:51.86]Wasn't no Reconstruction Civil War got avoided
[00:58.86]Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer
[01:03.87]Extra extra on the newsstands
[01:04.49]Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
[01:06.86]Malcolm Little dies as an old man
[01:08.24]Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
[01:09.61]Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Qu'ran
[01:10.43]President Bush sends condolences from Iran
[01:11.99]Where Fox News reports live
[01:14.74]That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize (All black everything )
[01:15.55]You would never know what you could ever be
[01:17.17]If you never tried you would never see
[01:19.49]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave
[01:22.24]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )
[01:23.61]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery
[01:27.05]Call me crazy or isn't he
[01:30.36]See I fell asleep and I had a dream
[01:32.92]It was all black everything
[01:35.37]Uh and it ain't no projects
[01:38.12]Keepin' it real's not an understood concept
[01:40.49]Yeah complexion's not a contest
[01:42.99]'Cause racism has no context
[01:45.61]Hip-hop ain't got a section called conscious
[01:48.30]Everybody rappin' like crack never happened
[01:50.55]Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them
[01:53.18]Matter fact no hood to attack in
[01:56.30]Somalia's a great place to relax in
[01:58.74]Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
[02:01.18]The Rat Pack was a cool group of black men
[02:04.30]That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
[02:07.24]Eminem fitted in but then again
[02:09.49]He inspired a black rapper tryna mimic him
[02:11.61]And that's what really rose up out of Michigan
[02:14.61]I signed a white rapper by the name of 50 Cent
[02:17.05]You would never know what you could ever be
[02:19.74]If you never tried you would never see
[02:21.17]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave
[02:24.68]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )
[02:26.05]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery
[02:31.62]Call me crazy or isn't he
[02:35.55]See I fell asleep and I had a dream
[02:36.30]It was all black everything
[02:36.49]Uh and I know this just a fantasy
[02:36.80]I cordially invite you to ask"Why can't it be"
[02:37.11]Now we can't do nothin' 'bout the past
[02:38.55]But we can do something 'bout the future that we have
[02:39.36]We can make it fast or we can make it last
[02:39.74]Every woman queen and every man a king and
[02:40.05]When those color lines come we can't see between
[02:40.36]We just close our eyes 'til it's all black everything
[02:40.74]You would never know what you could ever be
[02:42.24]If you never tried you would never see
[02:42.99]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave
[02:43.24]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )
[02:43.62]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery
[02:43.86]Call me crazy or isn't he
[02:45.18]See I fell asleep and I had a dream
[02:45.99]It was all black everything
[02:47.05]All black everything
[02:47.11]Yeah all black everything
[02:47.30]Yeah all black everything