BLACK PARADE

I'm going back to the south

I'm going back, back, back, back

Where my roots ain't watered down

Growing, growing like a baobab tree

Of life on fertile ground

Ancestors put me on game

Ankh charm on gold chains

With my Oshun energy oh

Drip all on me, woo!

Ankara Dashiki print

Hold up, don't I smell like Satya, Nag Champa incense?

Yeah, pure, ice, ice, ice, ice, bust down, uh

Flooded (Flooded)

Flooded (Flooded)

On my wrist, ow

Ooh

Going up, going up, motherland, motherland drip on me

Ooh

Melanin, melanin, my drip is skin deep like

Ooh

Motherland, motherland, motherland, motherland drip on me

Eeya

I can't forget my history is her story, yeah

I been black

Maybe that's the reason why they always mad, yeah

They always mad, yeah

Been passed 'em

I know that's the reason why they all big mad

And they always have been

Honey, come around my way, around my hive

Whenever mama say so, mama say

Here I come on my throne sitting high

Follow my parade oh, my parade

Talking slick to my folk (My folk)

Nip that lip like lipo (Lipo)

You hear them swarmin', right?

Bees is known to bite

Now here we come on our throne sitting high

Follow my parade oh, my parade

I'm for us

All black

All chrome

Black owned

Black tints

Matte black

Walk by, my window down

Let 'em see who in it

Crack a big smile (Ding!)

Go figure

Me and Jigga fifty 'leven children

They like, "Chick, how?"

I charge my crystals in a full moon

You can send them missiles, I'ma send my goons

Baby sister reppin' Yemoyah

Trust me, they gon' need an army

Rubber bullets bouncing off me

Made a picket sign off your picket fence

Take it as a warning

Waist beads from Yoruba (Ooh)

400 billi Mansa Musa (Ooh)

Stroll line to the barbecue

Put us any damn where, we gon' make it look cute

Pandemic fly on the runway in my hazmat

Children running through the house and my art all black

Ancestors on the wall, let the ghosts chit chat (Ancestors on the wall, let the ghosts chit chat)

Hold my hands we gon' pray together

Laid down face down in the gravel

We wearing all tight white to the funeral

Black love, we gon' stay together

Curtis Mayfield on the speaker (Ooh)

Lil' Malcom, Martin mixed with Mama Tina (Ooh)

Need another march, let me call Tamika (Ooh)

Need peace and reparation for my people (Ooh)

Fuck these laid edges, I'ma let it shrivel up (Shrivel up)

Fuck this fade and waves, I'ma let it dread all up (Dread it all up)

Put your fist up in the air and show black love (Show black love)

Motherland drip on me

Motherland, motherland drip on me

Honey come around my way, around my hive

Whenever mama say so, mama say

Here I come on my throne sitting high

Follow my parade oh, my parade

Talking slick to my folk (My folk)

Nip that lip like lipo (Lipo)

You hear 'em swarmin', right?

Bees is known to bite

Now here we come on our throne sitting high

Follow my parade oh, my parade

We got rhythm (We got rhythm)

We got pride (We got pride)

We birth kings (We birth kings)

We birth tribes (We birth tribes)

Holy River (Holy River)

Holy tongue (Holy tongue)

Speak the glory (Speak the glory)

Feel the love (Feel the love)

Motherland, motherland drip on me, hey, hey, hey

Motherland, motherland drip on me, hey, hey, hey

I can't forget my history is her story

Motherland drip on me

Motherland, motherland drip on me (Whoo!)

Honey, come around my way, around my hive

Whenever mama say so, mama say

Here I come on my throne sitting high

Follow my parade oh, my parade

Talking slick to my folk (My folk)

Nip that lip like lipo (Lipo)

You hear 'em swarmin', right?

Bees is known to bite

Now here we come on our throne sitting high

Follow my parade oh, black parade