All I See Is Melanin

All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin Yeah, okay All I see is you and you glowin' again People called you deranged but you grew to the pain Through the chains, through the change, the kinks and the bangs The way you sang through the negative things You gettin' famed while the enemies came with derogatory names Sometimes a superwoman had to become Lois Lane Sometimes a superman had to become Clark Kent Playgrounds in your heart surrounded by a hard fence I get it All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is pros, no cons or jokes And from our hair and our clothes, we wide as our nose And when we really start to flower, we truly a rose And when we showin' up with power, they cruelly imposed But yo, in the final hour, our beauty glows And with Africa in our hearts and under our toes We capturin' our resources and makin' 'em our own In the whole diaspora, pilgriming home All I see is melanin Vote, Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow We can make new amendments stoked Local election, city council, county commissioner, district attorney That's the chief law officer in your community Unity, we could put an end to the buffoonery Gonna be a black planet again, lucky you, lucky me All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin beautiful melanin And my wife's a natural, she didn't choose to gelatin Flyin' to the Netherlands, opposite of settled in Bars, Max Kellerman, a born again rebel man Browner than a spelling bee, blacker than a felony Actin' aggressive, hear nothin' that you tellin' me Unmelanateds been related to the sunscreen Chillin' on the beach, man, you need more than one cream One thing, Speech will say, please hold a mayonnaise But now puttin' melanin in cans of the tan spray Enough okay, I can see it runnin' down your leg, babe Blacker than a band from Sudan playin' reggae All I see is melanin FreakNik, 96 Stuck in traffic, had to sit, couldn't move a bit All I see is melanin NFL quarterbacks, Colin Kaepernick I'll admit, man, he more than black All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin All I see is melanin, beautiful melanin All I see is melanin, melanin, melanin