28 Days

Yeah, let freedom ring, it's the song of the saints
We learn resilience, patience, endurance, now we give thanks
Because his love endures forever
We stand together, endure the weather

Together, we thankful for Malcolm X and Rosa
Martin Luther King taught us how to be soldiers
Madam C.J. Walker kept the ladies real classy
Louis Armstrong showed us how to be jazzy

United we stand, divided we fall
We chose to take a knee even while we playing football
Inventors, educators, reverends, artists
Architects, doctors, judges, orthodontists

All shapes and all sizes and status
Black excellence ain't a thing that is past tense
Can you imagine where we would be without rapping
Life isn't as beautiful if it doesn't have blackness
Preach

Yo, H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, that's me
You know I come from the source
So I like to endorse Elohim

Master of everything, we go way back
Been with me since heritage was in chains
Inheritance in my veins
Carried us through this age, this gospel truth

Has ravished death, hell and the grave
Ordaining freedom for slaves and setting right what was made wrong
It's more than just the words to a song
It's life, it's righteousness in melody form

He shaped, he knew us when our backs went to the sun
Plotting to figure out in which direction we'd run
He won, uh, in which direction we'd run
We won

Ay, twenty-eight days
The shortest month that sits in a year
But crafted for recognition, the culture we made it here
Triumphantly weathered a storm, these stories sound so familiar

As I count down the days, man, it couldn't get clearer
Go getter, my people was always destined for some
Like Whoopi, achieving honors, my God is second to none
Oh, happy day, but a color red meant for all to stop and see

Set it aside to move the traffic like Moses did on the sea
I'm on go, word to Garrett Morgan
Crazy how we walked and made these moves and yet it's still important
You feel me now the word, these things are short

History on the daily, compare the two, don't look confused
The life of Jesus is a baby
Look at Sojourner, Frederick, Rosa, Dr. Martin Luther King
Just like you and me was guided by the same book in which we read

Ay, I heard him say, history and legacy never should be forgotten
The same way we read in Luke bout trees not bearing when it's rotten
Let's get it

Look, we only pledge allegiance to the flag of Jesus
And to the ones who used to lead us, we gladly take the baton
The foundation was set, so we know what we're standing on
He garnished us in his peace, so we'll never be up in arms
They try to harm us and bomb us, appease us with an obama

But we were just sing the psalms, no need to sound the alarm, okay
As we reflect on those who stood before us, the giants that lit the torches
To set a path to a brighter day

We thank the Lord, the only one could afford
To pay the price for the lives of those who died upon the way
The faith to wade in the water, knowing they on the way
The cages, they kept us in the dark in for 80 days

Never forget where we started
We bless those who thought life was something to fight for
In their hardest times, so that we can live life to the farthest
Ends of the earth, we say peace to the Godhead

Look, descendant of a slave, when cotton was the industry
been knew the Gospel from the cross to the lynching tree
Then until infinity he really be holding us down
We been spirit filled but literally our moment is now

You seen the sweat of our history on Harriet's brow
Give us the ball so we can carry it now no foul
Aye look Sorry for offending you
Black black as the inner tube
Back waxing on interludes beatitudes with tennis shoes

Breaking thru these finitudes and solid as the concrete
Been knew our place like the Lord gave us assigned seats
Looking at my skin-pretend they don't fear me
But try to close doe's my bow just see deer meat