[ti:Black] [ar:Dave] [al:Black] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Black (Explicit) - Dave [00:22.93]Look black is beautiful black is excellent [00:26.15]Black is pain black is joy black is evident [00:28.96]It's working twice as hard [00:30.17]As the people you know you're better than [00:31.80]'Cause you need to do double [00:32.92]What they do so you can level them [00:34.49]Black is so much deeper [00:35.95]Than just African-American [00:37.31]Our heritage been severed you never got to experiment [00:40.29]With family trees 'cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed [00:43.40]And show you pictures of our fam on their knees [00:45.51]Tell us we used to be barbaric we had actual queens [00:48.40]Black is watching child soldiers getting killed by other children [00:51.45]Feeling sick like oh s**t this could have happened to me [00:54.05]Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories 'bout your dad and your niece [00:57.42]The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice [00:59.89]A kid dies the blacker the killer [01:01.62]The sweeter the news [01:02.69]And if he's white you give him a chance [01:04.71]He's ill and confused [01:05.67]If he's black he's probably armed you see him and shoot [01:08.50]Look black is growing up around [01:11.09]The barbershop [01:11.84]Mummy saying stay away from trouble you're in yard a lot [01:14.56]Studying for ages appreciating the chance you got [01:17.53]'Cause black is in your blood [01:18.71]And you ain't even got the heart to stop [01:20.36]Black is stepping in for your mother because your father's gone [01:23.02]Standing by your children when you haven't proven karma wrong [01:26.03]Black is doing all of the above then going corner shopping [01:28.99]Tryna help a lady 'cross the road to have her walking off [01:31.77]Black is growing up around your family and making it [01:34.55]Then being forced to leave the place [01:36.14]You love because there's hate in it [01:37.53]People say you fake the s**t never stayed to change the s**t [01:40.43]But black is being jealous you'd be dead [01:42.09]If you had stayed in it [01:43.22]Black is struggling to find [01:44.40]Your history or trace the s**t [01:45.84]You don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasing it [01:48.86]Black has got a sour f**king flavor here's a taste of it [01:51.73]But black is all I know there ain't a thing [01:53.37]That I would change in it [01:54.52]Change in it [01:55.18]Change in it [01:55.84]Change in it [01:56.54]Change in it [02:05.87]Look black ain't just a single f**king color man [02:07.93]There's shades to it [02:08.86]Her hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it [02:11.63]Black is not divisive they been lyin' and I hate the s**t [02:14.53]Black has never been a competition we don't make this s**t [02:17.75]Black is deadly [02:18.65]Black is when you're freezing [02:20.14]In your home and you can't get sleep [02:21.75]But never feeling empty 'cause you got twenty cousins [02:24.23]In your country living stress free [02:26.13]Walking for their water daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet [02:28.97]Black is distant it's representing countries [02:31.48]That never even existed while your grandmother was living [02:34.33]Black is my ghanaian brother reading into scriptures [02:37.31]Doing research on his lineage findin' out [02:39.07]That he's egyptian [02:40.14]Black is people naming your countries on [02:42.09]What they trade most [02:43.14]Coast of ivory gold coast and the grain coast [02:46.03]But most importantly to show how deep all this pain goes [02:48.99]West Africa benin they called it slave coast [02:51.71]Black is so confusing 'cause the culture [02:53.45]They're in love with it [02:54.60]They take our features [02:55.70]When they want and have their fun with it [02:57.43]Never seem to help with all the things [02:59.14]We know would come with it [03:00.32]Loud in our laughter silent in our sufferin' [03:03.07]Black is being strong in sight of facing defeat [03:05.63]Poverty made me a beast I battled the law in the streets [03:08.59]Well you were struggled but [03:09.54]Your struggle ain't a struggle like me [03:11.16]Well how could it be when [03:12.32]Your people gave us the odds that we beat [03:14.14]I mean f**king hell what about our brothers [03:16.44]That are stuck in jail [03:17.55]That couldn't bust a bell [03:18.58]They held a bird and gotta live with it [03:20.34]Black is being guilty until proven that you're innocent [03:23.07]Black is saying free my f**king n***as stuck inside in prison cells [03:26.23]They think it's funny we ain't got nothing to say to them [03:29.11]Unconditional love is strange to them it's amazin' 'em [03:31.58]Black is like the sweetest f**king flavor here's a taste of it [03:34.62]But black is all I know there ain't [03:36.07]A thing that I would change in it