All Black Everything

Album: Lasers (2011)
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  • You would never know
    If you could ever be
    If you never try
    You would never see
    Stayed in Africa
    We ain't never leave
    So there wasn't no slaves in our history
    Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
    See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything

    Uh, and we ain't get exploited
    White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it
    We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it
    Built it up together so we equally appointed
    First four hundred years, see we actually enjoyed it
    Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois
    Were no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided
    Little black Sambo grows up to be a lawyer
    Extra extra on the news stands
    Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
    Malcolm little dies as a old man
    Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
    Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Quran
    President Bush sends condolences from Iran
    Where FOX News reports live
    That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize

    You would never know
    If you could ever be
    If you never try
    You would never see
    Stayed in Africa
    We ain't never leave
    So there wasn't no slaves in our history
    Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
    See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything

    Uh, and it ain't no projects
    Keepin' it real is not an understood concept
    Yea, complexion's not a contest
    Cause racism has no context
    Hip hop ain't got a section called conscious
    Everybody rappin' like crack never happened
    Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them
    Matter of fact no hood to attack in
    Somalia is a great place to relax in
    Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
    The Rat Pack was cool group of black men
    That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
    Eminem fitted in but then again
    He inspired a black rapper tryin' to mimic him
    And that's what really rose up out of Michigan,
    The sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent, ha!

    You would never know
    If you could ever be
    If you never try
    You would never see
    Stayed in Africa
    We ain't never leave
    So there wasn't no slaves in our history
    Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
    See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything

    Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy
    I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be?
    Now we can't do nothing bout the past
    But we can do something about the future that we have
    We can make fast or we can make it last
    Every woman Queenin' and every man a King an'
    When those color lines come we can't see between
    We just close our eyes 'til it's all black everything!

    You would never know
    If you could ever be
    If you never try
    You would never see
    Stayed in Africa
    We ain't never leave
    So there wasn't no slaves in our history
    Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
    See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything

    All black everything Writer/s: Irving Kahal, Jamal Johnson, Sammy Fain, Wasalu Jaco
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, ME GUSTA MUSIC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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