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Black Man

Stevie Wonder

The Complete Stevie Wonder

2005

First man to die
For the flag we now hold high (crispus attucks)
Was a black man

The ground were we stand
With the flag held in our hand
Was

everything's for the paper
The struggle for the right side of history
Independent thought is like an eternal enemy
Capitalists posing as compassionates be

Ab-Soul's Outro

Kendrick Lamar

Section.80

2011

babies, blame Ronald Reagan, we raising hell

Lord forbid
The homie got wet, so we trying to soak it in
The president is black, but you can't vote for

(Calling all cars, calling all cars
Be on the lookout for a tall light-skinned brother with dimples 
Wearing a black Kangol, sweatsuit, gold chain,

Yeah (one time for our nigga)
But you're gone and it just isn't fair right now
Right now, yeah (we got the world lit)
On God (on God), the work is

I'm Bad

LL Cool J

Def Jam Classics, Vol. 1

1989

(Calling all cars, calling all cars
Be on the lookout for a tall light-skinned brother with dimples 
Wearing a black Kangol, sweatsuit, gold chain,

history family lee surrealism exposition pop is art
When world was black 'n white if all colour shade of honey bee
Realism impressionism the sun shall every

exhaustion on his back

Glass business centers reflect the sky
Just to make sure you are on the ground
Black-skirted ladies, like a bullet in your brain
They

on revenge?
Did he drown the rat, was her death avenged?

Skull and bones on a field of black
Hung upon the center mast
Treasure in the hold below
Kidnapped

...question

(can contemporary art and music actually have any subversive impact....within our ultra
mediated, and hyper commodified pop culture?)

Contemporaries don’t listen
Somehow their ears have gone missing
I see em off in the distance
No legs or it’s just a figment
Imagination it isn’t
The Colors pop

dreams, 
Black Luxury,
Living out our dreams,
Black Luxury....

1st Verse (Dat Boy Supa)
If I could rewrite history
And tell the story of my people how it's

comes from the place of libraries, colleges, 
Centers of knowledge and trade, not just white but the black race. Us!
Race, I said it. Was it scary? I'm

or at the symphony/
I carry my naps like wives carry Tiffany/
They call it inappropriate I call it history/
Making black as legit as Becky’s sanctity/
This for my

all black like I'm Darth Vader
FRLMG yeah we making history
Yo boy Ced the new wave fresh like Listerine
Stylin and profiling call me Ric Flair
I Always

funded by the same people for over 300 years
Between 1932 and 1972, the US public health service secretly infected 200 black men in the Tuskegee syphilis

"Pre-Civil Rights before Rosa and Dr. King
AKA that modern-day contemporary Miss Paula Dean" shit
Crazy how they cancelled her TV show for sayin' nigga

the blood red seats
Rising in the center
A stage in black and gold
A candle light upon the wall
The flames are calling me
In there I see a crowd to flee

Who had the first university?
Us!
Studied diseases and surgery?
Us!
Us
We
You
Me
B
L
A
C
K

Black history didn't start with slavery
It's a shame when we

go-go-go-go

I wanna know
More than just this show

Lost in the wires
Bought and sold for desires
Paid the the toll on souls
Hand of control, black as coal

and humbly submit this poem for your review

Put simply, we are black history
Let's not just be mindful of what we've done, but what we do

Where our lives are 
Not a metaphor for death or dying 

We have come to bear witness here
Where black girls do not die.

kings
I was built from the dirt

Connected my soul to the center of the earth
For some of you rappers, y'all fucked up
Now it's my turn to act up, goddamn

One of the worst things to waste is the mind
And second in line is time
After that is health, the fourth is food
For thoughts come and go like wealth