Black (Explicit)

Black (Explicit) - Dave

Look black is beautiful black is excellent

Black is pain black is joy black is evident

It's working 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 'bout 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 getting killed by other children

Feeling sick like oh s**t this could have happened to me

Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories 'bout your dad and your niece

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice

A kid dies the blacker the killer

The sweeter the news

And if he's white you give him a chance

He's ill and confused

If he's black he's probably armed you see him and shoot

Look black is growing up around

The barbershop

Mummy saying stay away from trouble you're in yard a lot

Studying 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 stepping in for your mother because your father's gone

Standing by your children when you haven't proven karma wrong

Black is doing all of the above then going corner shopping

Tryna help a lady 'cross the road to have her walking off

Black is growing up around your family and making it

Then being forced to leave the place

You love because there's hate in it

People say you fake the s**t never stayed to change the s**t

But black is being jealous you'd be dead

If you had stayed in it

Black is struggling to find

Your history or trace the s**t

You don't know the truth about your race 'cause they erasing it

Black has got a sour f**king flavor here's a taste of it

But black is all I know there ain't a thing

That I would change in it

Change in it

Change in it

Change in it

Change in it

Look black ain't just a single f**king color man

There's shades to it

Her hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it

Black is not divisive they been lyin' and I hate the s**t

Black has never been a competition we don't make this s**t

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 twenty 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

Doing research on his lineage findin' out

That he's egyptian

Black is people naming your countries on

What they trade most

Coast of ivory gold coast and the grain coast

But most importantly to show how deep all 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 would come with it

Loud in our laughter silent in our sufferin'

Black is being strong in sight of facing defeat

Poverty made me a beast I battled the law in the streets

Well you were struggled but

Your struggle ain't a struggle like me

Well how could it be when

Your people gave us the odds that we beat

I mean f**king hell what about our brothers

That are stuck in jail

That couldn't bust a bell

They held a bird and gotta live with it

Black is being guilty until proven that you're innocent

Black is saying free my f**king n***as stuck inside in prison cells

They think it's funny we ain't got nothing to say to them

Unconditional love is strange to them it's amazin' 'em

Black is like the sweetest f**king flavor here's a taste of it

But black is all I know there ain't

A thing that I would change in it