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All Black Everything
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Hip-Hop/Rap
All Black Everything was released on March 4, 2011 by 1st & 15th/Atlantic as a part of the album Lasers
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Release DateMarch 4, 2011
Label1st & 15th/Atlantic
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM91

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Irving Kahal
Irving Kahal
Songwriter
Sammy Fain
Sammy Fain
Songwriter
Wasalu Jaco
Wasalu Jaco
Songwriter
Wizzo Buchanon
Wizzo Buchanon
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Wizzo Buchanon
Wizzo Buchanon
Producer
Cory Buchanon
Cory Buchanon
Co-Producer
Brian Gardner
Brian Gardner
Mastering Engineer
Greg Magers
Greg Magers
Recording Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sometimes, you just gotta go
[Verse 2]
You would never know if you could ever be
If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
So there wasn't no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery
Call me crazy or isn't he?
See, I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything
[Verse 3]
And we ain't get exploited
White man ain't fearin' so he did not destroy it
We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it
Built it up together, so we equally appointed
[Verse 4]
First four hundred years, see, we actually enjoyed it
Constitution written by the W.E.B. DuBois
Were no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided
Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer
[Verse 5]
Extra, extra on the news stands
Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
Malcom Little dies as an old man
Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
[Verse 6]
Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read for the Quran
President Bush sends condolences from Iran
Where Fox News reports live that
Ahmadinejad wins Mandela Peace Prize
[Verse 7]
You would never know if you could ever be
If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
So there wasn't no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery
Call me crazy or isn't he?
See, I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything
[Verse 8]
And it ain't no projects
Keepin' it real's not an understood concept
Yeah, complexion's not a contest
'Cause racism has no context
[Verse 9]
Hip hop ain't got a section called conscious
Everybody rappin' like crack never happened
Crips never occurred, no Bloods to attack them
Matter of fact, no hood to attack in
[Verse 10]
Somalia is a great place to relax in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The Rat Pack was a cool group of black men
That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
[Verse 11]
Eminem fitted in, but then again
He inspired a black rapper tryin' to mimic him
And that's what really rose up outta Michigan
The sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent
[Verse 12]
You would never know if you could ever be
If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
So there wasn't no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery
Call me crazy or isn't he?
See, I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything
[Verse 13]
And I know it's just a fantasy
I cordially invite you to ask, why can't it be?
Now, we can't do nothin' 'bout the past
But we can do somethin' 'bout the future that we have
[Verse 14]
We can make it fast or we can make it last
Every woman queen and every man a king and
When those colors come, we can't see between
We just close our eyes till it's all black everything
[Verse 15]
You would never know if you could ever be
If you never try, you would never see
Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
So there wasn't no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery
Call me crazy or isn't he?
See, I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything
[Verse 16]
All black everything
All black everything
All black everything
Written by: Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain, Wasalu Jaco, Wizzo Buchanon
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