[00:22.61] Look, black is beautiful, black is excellent [00:26.28] Black is pain, black is joy, black is evident [00:28.77] It's working twice as hard [00:29.89] As the people you know you're better than [00:31.51] 'Cause you need to do double what they do [00:33.20] So you can level them [00:34.32] Black is so much deeper than just African-American [00:37.19] Our heritage been severed, you never got to experiment [00:39.96] With family trees [00:41.22] 'Cause they teach you 'bout famine and greed [00:43.13] And show you pictures of our fam' on their knees [00:45.45] Tell us we used to be barbaric [00:47.20] We had actual queens [00:48.51] Black is watchin' child soldiers gettin' killed by other children [00:51.34] Feelin' sick, like, oh shit, this could have happened to me [00:53.90] Your mummy watchin' tellin' stories about your dad and your niece [00:57.64] The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice [00:59.72] A kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news [01:02.87] And if he's white you give him a chance [01:04.41] He's ill and confused [01:05.73] If he's black he's probably armed [01:07.22] You see him and shoot [01:08.34] Look, black is growin' up around the barbershop [01:11.52] Mummy sayin', stay away from trouble, you're in yard a lot [01:14.44] Studying for ages, appreciating the chance you got [01:17.38] 'Cause black is in your blood [01:18.41] And you ain't even got the heart to stop [01:20.18] Black is steppin' in for your mother [01:22.08] Because your father's gone [01:22.95] And standin' by your children [01:24.14] When you haven't proven karma wrong [01:26.09] Black is doin' all of the above then goin' corner shoppin' [01:28.74] Tryna help a lady cross the road to have her walkin' off [01:31.51] Black is growin' up around your family and makin' it [01:34.49] Then being forced to leave the place you love [01:36.15] Because there's hate in it [01:37.32] People say you fake the shit [01:38.62] Never stayed to change the shit [01:40.14] But black is being jealous, you'd be dead if you had stayed in it [01:43.18] Black is strugglin' to find your history or trace the shit [01:45.74] You don't know the truth about your race [01:47.58] 'Cause they're erasing it [01:48.84] Black has got a sour fuckin' flavour, here's a taste of it [01:51.44] But black is all I know [01:52.59] There ain't a thing that I would change in it [01:54.50] [02:05.59] Look, black ain't just a single fuckin' colour [02:07.75] Man there's shades to it [02:08.84] Her hair's straight and thick but mine's got waves in it [02:11.41] Black is not divisive, they been lyin' and I hate the shit [02:14.33] Black has never been a competition [02:16.26] We don't make this shit [02:17.55] Black is deadly [02:18.75] Black is when you're freezin' in your home [02:20.40] And you can't get sleep but never feelin' empty [02:22.86] 'Cause you got 20 cousins in your country living stress-free [02:25.70] Walkin' for their water, daughter wrapped inside a bed sheet [02:28.79] Black is distant, it's representin' countries [02:31.56] That never even existed while your grandmother was livin' [02:34.38] Black is my Ghanaian brother readin' into scriptures [02:37.17] Doing research on his lineage [02:38.52] Finding out that he's Egyptian [02:40.22] Black is people namin' your countries on what they trade most [02:43.17] Coast of Ivory, Gold Coast, and the Grain Coast [02:45.96] But most importantly to show how deep all this pain goes [02:48.54] West Africa, Benin, they called it slave coast [02:51.56] Black is so confusing, 'cause the culture? [02:53.11] They're in love with it [02:54.36] They take our features when they want and have their fun with it [02:57.48] Never seem to help with all the things we know would come with it [03:00.16] Loud in our laughter, silent in our suffering [03:02.85] Black is bein' strong inside and facing defeat [03:05.33] Poverty made me a beast, I battled the law in the streets [03:08.34] We all struggled [03:09.10] But your struggle ain't a struggle like me [03:10.98] Well how could it be when your people gave us the odds that we beat? [03:13.84] I mean, fuckin' hell [03:15.09] What about our brothers that are stuck in jail? [03:17.23] That couldn't bust a bell, they held a bird and gotta live with it [03:20.08] Black is being guilty until proven that you're innocent [03:22.91] Black is sayin' [03:23.66] Free my fuckin' niggas stuck inside in prison cells [03:26.25] They think it's funny, we ain't got nothin' to say to them [03:28.76] Unconditional love is strange to them, it's amazing 'em [03:31.52] Black is like the sweetest fuckin' flavour [03:33.45] Here's a taste of it [03:34.43] But black is all I know [03:35.62] There ain't a thing that I would change in it [03:39.64]