King Sun - Be Black Lyrics
(Richard Pryor) Have any of you ever been to Africa,back to the motherland?It's somethin... *echoes*All these lovely... brothers and sistersThe subject at hand is about your own peopleThe poison animal eaters, slaves of a mental death in powerAnd our next speaker, well... we know who he isVerse One:This is not a rhyme about the racial timesAnd if you don't want to hear it then pay it no mindWhat I'm about to say may get you all upsetSo I apoligize and the wise don't sweatThe matter at hand is toward the blackThat live a falsehood life and that's no way to actYou don't wear gold because you can't afford itThe medallion was cheap, so you went out and bought itFrom a Chinese man, or some Korean fellaI bet you think your money went to help MandelaOh really, has the past been forgotten?Dressin how they used to in the days of pickin cottonMartin Luther King did a lot for usBut today it's cool to play the back of the busI study 120, I'm right and exactSo I think I should reveal what it is to be blackVerse Two:Now everybody's wearin the red black and greenHere's the point: do you know what it means?Red for the bloodshed, black for the peopleGreen for the land to be utilized equal"Yo I'm from Africa" boy you're just a fakerName one city "Uhh, Jamaica!"WRONG... and I think that's a shameAn African look with an American nameYou might fool others but you can't fool SunWanna build with the brother, then I am the onePlay connect the dots, all the way to the motherlandWhat have you done for your nation my brothermanYou can't even do the right things for selfThen you got the nerve to criticize somebody elseIf it wasn't for Chuck you wouldn't know of FarrakhanI understand that the man is a paragonOpen up your eyes and ears and try to learnStop perpetratin with your false concernEven some rappers, frontin in their videosNothing but Oreos, tryin to be memorialI'm not impressed, by the way some starsperpetrate to be original, you know who you areI diss my people who choose to lackcause there's more to learn on how to be blackVerse Three:And then they say I'm prejudiced, cause I like redbonesBut nowadays original girls are headstrongNot as a whole, but the majority I knowAre too busy frontin yo, tryin to be fly thoughYou might hear this and think I'm trippinBut knowledge the wisdom before you start flippinAs modern day God, I do analysisTo find out what makes them hard like callousesInstead of being sweat, truthful and softThey wanna be false and that turns me offYour hair's not real, neither are your eyesAnd your makeup is swine plus a big disguiseYour clothes are tight, I can see every inchAnd then you wonder how I get this urge to pinchSellin your sex, without makin loveI'm not Keith to be Sweat-in you and that's unheard ofIf I got dollars, I'm good for your numberIf I look fine, I get a one night slumberWham, bam, but no thank you ma'amWanna knock the boots but you don't know who I amThis is not a diss to my black sistaIf I screamed on ya daughter, pardon me mistaThe point I'm makin, such a visual factTeach her to be original, and how to be blackGroove to thisMove to thisVerse Four:I know you're probably mad and would like to roast meBut get yourself together, before you approach meCause I'm no sucka, I say what I feelI might hurt your feelings, but at least I'm realThe way to be black is to strive for goalsYou're no longer the people who was bought and soldMy advice to you is a word to the wiseSnap out of the negative, into the civilizedThis place around you was meant to down youKings and Queens but yet they still won't crownSun Born Allah has a goal no doubt if you're blackand you're proud you better live that out...
