Beautiful Is Black (feat. Marcel P. Black & Dolla Black)
5th Child
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Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black Beautiful is black Promised I'd write my way up out my mama house Now I'm dropping these cassettes until I'm out of debt Trina told me "5th, they gotta set them commas out" Feel like I've let her down cause I ain't got it poppin' yet Now I pray over ever dollar that I collect Pennies in my hands transform into some bands When the series of events ain't according to my plans I feel like calling it quits but the Lord he understands so I push through I can run through a troop and leap over the walls Now please hold your applause You ain't seen nada, street fiends fiend for green gwolla Pray that you Spotify cause all of my streams hotter (Uh) Pay homage, acknowledge, I got the scholars stumped Higher level, ducking the devil rockin' some Prada pumps Donatello straight from the gutter, pockets on Papa Klump Watch Geppetto tug on they sockets making imposters jump You ain't real boy, I'm here to fill a void Leave the fakers by the gate, tell them to kill the noise In my circle of kings, 2 things: build and destroy When I put that hammer down, feel the tremors underground, Now Peace, Queen. That melanin hella elegant Ultraviolet beams and creams couldn't embellish it Smoothness of your hues proof you in tune with the elements Truly we're enthused at being blessed with your fellowship Understand, you winning wasn't the plan When they loaded up them boats and put them shackles on your hands Any evidence of growth or signs that you're getting close Is supposed to be perceived as "niggas getting out of hand" Now History's never made by the well behaved And the memories tell the story, we don't let them fade I threw Marcel on this track to set the record straight Took a break from selling records, now it's time to celebrate Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Yea Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Whoa Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Yea Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black Back in elementary school I remember remembering The feeling of self doubt all due to my pigment Little black boy hella dark just like my father In an all white school, wished I was light just like my mama Cause my mama's mama's kin went and blended with Indians High cheeks, red skin, hair blowing in the wind Out in Indian territory, now you're listening to the story Of how colorism killed the self-esteem within, plus I was chubby and had thick glasses Talked with a slight stammer when I spoke in classes Ashamed when slavery came up in the history books Cause I know that all the white kids gonna give me the look That's psychological warfare, Why our history start there Miseducation of the negro Why they can't show us as heroes Y'all ancestors were savages, back when they was trafficking Africans across the water during Middle Passages Came to the knowledge when I was 14 My cousin Bop was up in college studying to be god-body He gave me books, conscious hip hop I could play To unlearn the white lies, I was learning every day Meanwhile in high school, all my partners gang-banged And I ain't wanna be no lame so I had to maintain If my mama ain't pray, and I ain't read Malcolm Or hear that Let's Get Free I'd probably still be in the game Nowadays, BLACK is the only thing I bang And I love it so much that I made it my last name My melanin's divine and I'm made in God's image Don't want my kids to feel my pain so I always tell my children That beautiful is black, don't ever let them tell you different Always keep your head high with some pride up in your chest Cause your heart pumps royalty, we're warriors at best Your blackness ain't not crutch, it's living proof that you're blessed Cause Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Huh Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Huh Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Huh Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black I'm the closest with everybody that say they nothing Til they made them something Built the perfect mansion out of crumblings And if the stomach sow the harvest, been a long time coming And the blessings and favor over-running Pardon me if I'm stunting in my brand new glory from dope nigga to KING Should be proud of me. Took a lot of stress to get it out of me, but I'm here now If only I could teach my brothers that need more to reach for more things Than settling to speak these bars or be seen And give them means that means they can own they own Instead of flexing after taking a loan, shit Focused on a long list of black-ish barriers Transporting this energy, I'm the carrier Be careful, people will watch it and say they carried you... My bad Beautiful is BLK, notice the homophone, I promise we gon be okay Even if we have to build and we never see the building and our kids kids flourish Then we win the race, but it starts today Praise our people when it's due, gotta realign, not giving routine Tell them they can have they stars, that's cool But man, stop actin' like Lupita ain't a queen Black is beautiful, hard to digest, there is nothing better Surface level a coal mine, trying to hide our treasure Too many years of failing just to provide y'all pleasure, abide by y'all schedule No longer are we frail and weak and y'all see it now it's lessons to learn Grind tired and outdated now we're starting to churn Not clinging to memories, now we're letting it burn Cremating shit and y'all brought the urn Beautiful is Black Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Yea Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black, Uh Beautiful is black, Beautiful is black
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Written by: BRANDON HOWARD, BRYAN WILLIAMS, STEPHEN BROWN
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