BLACK.

This is the story of a Black girl Black, Black, Black (Black) Black (Black) Black, Black, Black I love being Black, bustin' raps, the smell of flat irons and Blue Magic Aluminum-foil plates, the pork chops and cabbage, that walk, that talk Ain't I cool? (Ain't I cool?) I love to fool with folks, bust jokes, laugh to keep from crying Black death I hate, we keep dying, our love, we keep flying (our love) Defying gravity and odds, I love, we love God Catch the Holy Ghost, grandma with the housecoat Brothers on the corner go rope-side (halleloo) I cry for the Black moms that gotta bury they Black babies they dads incarcerated I pray, I pray, I pray we smile (smile, smile) Black gums, African drums, love we danced on beat I love the brown on me, chocolate babies, I love the Black family (I love, I love) Electric slidin', I love we lean to the left when we drivin' (lean) I love braids, breeze, medallions, and lace fronts The bass drums, we back that thing up too vibin' (vibe, vibe, vibe) Ain't nothing but a Black thing (ain't nothing but a Black thing, baby) (ain't nothing but a Black thing) I love the fight in us that still remains I love we love through the pain, I love, I love, I love, I, I, I love Being Black (I love, I love, I love) I love, I love Black, Black, Black to the futuristic Choose your lipstick, we are colorful I love being Black, we are loveable With a flair like Clair Huxtable There are no CliffsNotes to the experience from which we spit quotes In big boats, we cross troubled waters At times, I felt like a fatherless child But I love my daughter And now Pops is dead, a supporter from the eternal In the ancestral plains, we fly high through the turbulence of the world To once again find our future in a newborn girl The future is thorough existence Knowing we existed and will exist throughout the distance Who run the world? Who run the world? Who run the heavenly domains? The windows of Heaven are open and there is no pain Just a majestic land with Black feet, Black hearts, and Black souls So I say one love because we are chosen ones