Dave - 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 '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

Feelin' sick like

Oh sh*t this could have happened to me

Your mummy watching

Telling 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 growin' up around the barbershop

Mummy sayin' stay away from trouble

You're in yard a lot

Studying for ages appreciatin' 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 proven karma wrong

Black is doing all of the above

Then goin' corner shoppin'

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

Black is growin' up around your family and makin' it

Then being forced to leave the place

You love because there's hate in it

People say you fake the sh*t

Never stayed to change the sh*t

But black is being jealous you'd be dead

If you had stayed in it

Black is strugglin' to find your history

Or trace the sh*t

You don't know the truth about your race

Cause they erasin' it

Black has got a sour f**kin' flavour

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 f**kin' colour

Man there's shades to it

Her hair's straight and thick b

Ut mine's got waves in it

Black is not divisive

They been lying and I hate the sh*t

Black has never been a competition

We don't make this sh*t

Black is deadly

Black is when you're freezin' in your home

And you can't get sleep but never feelin' 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 representin' countries

That never even existed while your grandmother was living

Black is my ghanaian brother readin' into scriptures

Doing research on his lineage

Finding out that he's egyptian

Black is people namin'

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 confusin'

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 inside and facing defeat

Poverty made me a beast

I battled the law in the streets

We all 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**kin' 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 sayin'

Free my f**king n**gas 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 amazing 'em

Black is like the sweetest f**kin' flavour

Here's a taste of it

But black is all I know

There ain't a thing that I would chang