積分
演出藝人
Young RJ
演出者
Mega Ran
演出者
Eric Roberson
演出者
Christon Mason
男低音
Alex Marshall
大提琴
Madeleine Fitzgerald
小提琴
Sophie Gill
長笛
詞曲
Eric Roberson
詞曲創作
Marcel Black
詞曲創作
Ralph Rice II
作曲家
Christon Mason
作曲家
Raheem Jarbo
詞曲創作
製作與工程團隊
Young RJ
製作人
歌詞
When we were young
Understanding our place, and how we fit in
Black men, in a country of hate, since the beginning
My momma told me, my last name fake, was something given
Black parents torn from black children, no mistake
It’s the same world we still live in, one of fake smiles
Make America great, debates, dominate
All the airwaves, meanwhile, my people still struggling
Psychological pain, remains, passed to other men
Women, even children within, the womb’s crucible
Black skin, black hair, our flair indisputable,,
I love my blackness, down to my cuticles
My people not the usual, black is beautiful
Black is beautiful, black as the raised fist
Of John Carlos and Tommie Smith, black as
Underground railroads without a train
You know what I’m saying
Repeat it out loud without delaying
You may not have heard this before
Your skin holds something more
Inside it
Is our history
(I'm just here to tell you black is beautiful)
So let it be known, there's royalty in your tone
Let it shine like your legacy
(I'm just here to tell you black is beautiful)
Beautiful..
Beautiful..
I'm just here to tell you black is beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
I'm just here to tell you black is beautiful
The First time I ever heard the term black beauty
They were talking about a horse in a wack movie
If you black truly you can relate
To moms working 2 jobs to put food on your plate
Crazy hours she be out into the black of night
Threaten to beat the black off me if I ain’t acting right
Black as midnight on any MLK boulevard
Uncle Bobby's El Dorado pulling out the garage
Charged
Black as Nina Simone, black is Leroi Jones
Black as Detroit negro spiritual b-boy poems
From Jill Scott to Gil Scott
Black card acquired
My black can’t be bought or borrowed; its god inspired
To be black in America's a constant state of rage
We just trying to elevate, like cellular data rates
Black like magic, the combo of all colors
Even if they don't love us, remember God love us
Skin tone black as hell but I'm still seven/
Going thru this black hell trying to find heaven
But I'll never leave my people so don't call me Kevin
Down to struggle till conditions better
I never tell my sisters that they are the lesser
Always tell em that they God, that they are a blessing
I won't never used whiteness as a bar to measure
My self worth, or my purpose on this earth
So I'm building with the youngins outchea thuggin on the turf
Tryinna tell em that they holy, even tho they holding work
That they melanin divine, we was first to walk this Earth
Blackness is a badge of honor, it ain't never been a curse
(Oh Lord)
That's why I'm always Black & Proud like I'm James Brown
Black as theaters when T'Challa first came out
Free Black man, unapologetic
Black is Beautiful, my name is in the record, check it
Written by: Christon Mason, Eric Roberson, Marcel Black, Raheem Jarbo, Ralph Rice II
