I'm Black (feat. Just Steve)

I wanna get the language so right that everybody here will cry out, yes, I'm black, I'm proud
Of it, I'm black and beautiful
It's okay to be black until you're too black
Now you an outcast, slap that on three stacks

I can't even celebrate my heritage without some people getting mad and mixing up my messages
That's sad
We don't hate y'all, we just love us
Melanated skin, sprinkled with that gold dust. 400 years since the great American gold rush

Now that gold's turning money so is it
And black we trust, so many of my people, yeah they had to fight for it
Freedom wasn't a choice, my people had to die for it
We invented culture, y'all just adopted it

But if I celebrate it, I'm rude, that's cool
All black everything, I'm black everything
I'ma let my voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring
So y'all gon' hear me scream, black to the day I die

When I have more kids, y'all gon' watch this black multiply
If you ain't heard by now, I'm black
And whether you like it or not, it don't matter
Cause we gon' celebrate it

You wanna know why
Cause I'm black y'all, yeah I'm black y'all
Cause I'm black and he black, yeah I'm black y'all
I'm black y'all, yeah I'm black y'all

I'm black and he black, yeah I'm black y'all
Ah, melanated sunbathed and brown shaded
That statement got us chained up and towns raided
But look how far we done made it

From slave ships to high places, of course I'm finna celebrate it
We keep it rockin' like the chair granny sat on
Can't understand why it's so hard for y'all to catch on
When's the last time you saw a painting in a black home

So I'ma go hard for any business this black own
And lovin' black don't mean we don't love y'all color
Lovin' black actually means we love all colors
Black boy joy plus black girl magic

Black love is what I pray the whole wide world catches
While I'm at it, I hate the way the media paints us
Matter of fact, if it ain't got soul, yo it ain't us
Too many roses out here parkin' on the same bus

We bringin' flavor to the table, y'all should probably thank us
My black mamas, my black babies, my black daughters, my black sons, my black kings
Black is beautiful, and we gon' let the world know
I'm black y'all, I'm black y'all, I'm blackity black, I'm black black y'all

Big head, big smile, big laugh, big style, I'm big proud, I don't know how to act small
I think what you're trying to ask is why am I so insistent giving out to them that blackness
That black power, that black pushing them to identify with black culture
I have no choice over it in the first place. To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world

Black people, and I mean that in every sense
My job is to somehow make them curious enough, or persuade them to get more aware of themselves
And where they came from and what they are into and what is already there, just to bring it out
This is what compels me to compel them

And I will do it by whatever means necessary