BLACK. (feat. Rapsody & Common)

This is the story of a Black girl

Black, Black, Black (Black)

Black (Black)

Black, Black, Black

I love being Black, bustin' raps, the smell of flat irons and Blue Magic

Aluminium-foil plates, the pork chops and cabbage, that walk, that talk

Ain't I cool? (Ain't I cool?)

I love to fool with folks, bust jokes, laugh to keep from crying

Black death I hate, we keep dying, our love, we keep flying (Our love)

Defying gravity and odds, I love, we love God

Catch the Holy Ghost, grandma with the housecoat

Brothers on the corner go rope-side (Halleloo)

I cry for the Black moms that gotta bury they Black babies, they dads incarcerated

I pray, I pray, I pray we smile (Smile, smile)

Black gums, African drums, love we danced on beat

I love the brown on me, chocolate babies, I love the Black family (I love, I love)

Electric slidin', I love we lean to the left when we drivin'

I love braids, breeze, medallions, and lace fronts

The bass drums, we back that thing up too vibin' (Vibe, vibe, vibe)

Ain't nothing but a Black thing (Ain't nothing but a Black thing)

I love the fight in us that still remains

I love we love through the pain, I love, I love, I love, I, I, I love

Being Black (I love, I love)

I love, I love

Black, Black, Black to the futuristic

Choose your lipstick, we are colorful

I love being Black, we are loveable

With a flair like Clair Huxtable

There are no CliffsNotes to the experience from which we spit quotes

In big boats, we cross troubled waters

At times, I felt like a fatherless child

But I love my daughter

And now Pops is dead, a supporter from the eternal

In the ancestral plains, we fly high through the turbulence of the world

To once again find our future in a newborn girl

The future is thorough existence

Knowing we existed and will exist throughout the distance

Who run the world? Who run the world?

Who run the heavenly domains?

The windows of Heaven are open and there is no pain

Just a majestic land with Black feet, Black hearts, and Black souls

So I say one love because we are chosen ones