Black and Beautiful (feat. Zion-I, Kev Choice & OneTruthThePoet)
Dame Drummer
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The skin I'm in is not a sin As a matter of fact it's beautiful Paint a grim picture of all my folks But all of that's gon blow up in smoke How long will it take us to see We're not savages but royalty Stolen a nation's identity Still tellin me that I'm free, I look in the mirror and see I am Black and Beautiful, I am Black and Beautiful I am Black and Beautiful, I am Black and Beautiful I am Black and Beautiful! Uhn! Sun kissed skin In my element Ether wired send vibe thru My melanin-Feel it 7 seals cracked When I'm kneeling Nappy Ol hair Don't care In my feelings Mocha vanilla To caramel complexion Ebony brown, Blue black The perfection Complex dred Help me sense the direction Blessings rain down Tears fall for protection Dirt stained hands In a prayer a projection Ritual contact Renders the flesh and- Blood Flooding down The blocks of processions Generations rise up Thru suggestion Ancestors bless the children Brick by brick- Resurrecting the building Healing-know who u are- It's appealing Knowledge and wisdom God is revealing-The ceiling Moving on up Prayers in the air Stay fillin my cup Feel what I'm sayin We the creators Original longtime imitate us Tried to take us- Never break us It's just us- On a daily basis Innovators- They wanna trace us D.N.A strand map it down And cake up But we got the leg up- When we keep it most high Energy change but it's Never gone die On my shoulders got sky Under foot I got Earth God is so good On the vibe I'm gone surf Mama got love Daddy got strength Children got breath- Now it start to make sense Letting go a that stress We all represent Balance so dense in these Africans Pure elegance-I I am Black and Beautiful, I am Black and Beautiful I am Black and... King Choice Descendant of royalty king queens and rulers Tribes of the Zulu the Igbo Yoruba Don't know your past then you're doomed for the future You are a diamond no need for a jeweler Lions of the tribe of Judah conquer The power within this what we must discover Young sisters young brothers Can't fall victim to the image that's presented Nothin less than perfection should ever be accepted Not a blemish or a premise that our pigment is anything else but God's reflection They used to call me piss colored, high yellow, I used to feel a certain way about it Til I started gettin a lil knowledge of self And understood that I am beautiful In and out and ain't nuttin they can say about it It's mental conditioning belief What is the origin if beauty is skin deep The more we explore our inner corridors To the pore it's gorgeous The more we adore under our pores is so important Deeper than the physical Ego is the criminal love is the principle Look into my iris see the rise of the solar Beauty's in the eye of the beholder Who are we to judge only father or Jehovah The devil is a lie tell the truth and it's gon hurt Until we accept and manifest our essence The wretched maintain control of the whole earth LOVE BEAUTIFUL! The skin I'm in is not a sin As a matter of fact it's beautiful Paint a grim picture of all my folks But all of that's gon blow up in smoke How long will it take us to see We're not savages but royalty Stolen a nation's identity Still tellin me that I'm free, I look in the mirror and see Being Black is an obstacle A circumstance that makes progress or success difficult Being Black is a burden A demand on the strength, ridding of resources and suppression of the abilities of a people This has been heavy This Hester Prynne scarlet letter Permanent tattoo etched into my skin Being black has never been better And the lime light has been a tanning bed every 28 hrs Being black gets you shot by the authorities We scream don't shoot with church pew hands so can you blame us That every time we see a cop it reminds us of Nazi Germany Black boys are burnt Jews Ghettos concentration camps A police state Either Hitler wasn't all that bad Or genocide is a learned behavior Being black is never being asked to be born Surviving the system Get rich; die trying Live poor, die young, floss, turn up, blow up Being black is a moment in time A reckoning Being black is not a poem In fact There are no words to describe being black No school No university No church No think tank No community group No website can provide the understanding; the knowing To feel how heavy this burden is No one can replicate the beauty The connections The eyes The smiles The jive The grandmas The Sundays The music - we are the music Music... Being black is the hope The desperation Having the will to feel that one day We can lay this burden down Being black is not a metaphor Being Black! I am Black and Beautiful You can't tell me nothin I am Black and Beautiful
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Written by: Damon Taylor, Kevin Choice, Stephen Gaines, Thomas Parish
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