black

look, black is beautiful, black is excellent, black is pain, black is joy, black is evident, it's workin' twice as hard as the people you know you're better than, 'cause you need to do double what they do so you can level them, black is so much deeper than just african-american, our heritage been severed, you never got to experiment, with family trees 'cause they teach you about famine and greed, and show you pictures of our fam on their knees, tell us we used to be barbaric, we had actual queens, black is watching child soldiers gettin' killed by other children, feelin' sick like "oh shit, this coulda happened to me", your mummy watchin', tellin' stories 'bout your dad and your niece, the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice, the kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news, and if he's white, you'll give him a chance, he's ill and confused, if he's black he's probably armed, you see and you shoot, look, black is growin' up around the barbershop, mummy sayin' stay away from trouble, you're in yard a lot, studyin' for ages, appreciating the chance you got, 'cause black is in your blood and you ain't even got the heart to stop, black is steppin' in for your mother because your father's gone, and standin' by your children when you haven't proving karma wrong, black is doing all of the above and going corner shopping, tryna help a lady cross the street to have her walking off, black is growing up around your family and making it, then being forced to leave the place you live because there's hate in it, people say you fake this shit, never stayed to change this shit, but black is being jealous, you'd be dead if you had stayed in it, black is struggling to find your history or change this shit, you don't know the truth about your race 'cause they're erasing it, black has got a sour fucking flavor, here's a taste of it, but black is all i know, there ain't a thing that i would change in it, look, black ain't just a single fucking color man, there's shades to it, her hair straight and thick but mine's got waves in it, black is not divisive, they've been lying and i hate this shit, black has never been a competition, we all make this shit, black is deadly, black is when you're freezing in your home, and you can't get sleep, but never feeling empty 'cause, you got 20 cousins in your country living stress-free, walking for their water, daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet, black is distant, it's representing countries that never even existed, while your grandmother was living, black is my ghanaian brother reading into scriptures, doin' research in his lineage, finding out that he's egyptian, black is people naming your counties on what they trade most, coast of ivory, gold coast, and the grain coast, but most importantly, to show how deep all of this pain goes, west africa, benin, they called it slave coast, black is so confusing 'cause the culture, they're in love with it, they take our features when they want and have their fun with it, never seem to help with all the things we know will come with it, loud in our laughter, silent in our suffering, black is being strong inside and facing defeat, poverty made me a beast, i battled the law in the streets, we all struggle, but your struggle ain't a struggle like me, or how could it be when your people gave us the odds that we beat, i mean fucking hell, what about our brothers that are stuck in jail, that could have bust the bail, they held a bird and gotta live with it, black is being guilty until proven that you're innocent, black is sayin' "free my fuckin' niggas stuck inside in prisons cells", they think it's funny, we ain't got nothing to say to them, unconditional love is strange to them, it's amazing them, black is like the sweetest fucking flavor, here's a taste of it, but black is all i know, there ain't a thing that i would change in it