Black Progress

[00:21.64] Uh, Black progress
[00:23.18] Downpressed for too long, Black progress
[00:25.54] Now let's stand up strong, Black progress
[00:28.24] Cuz we won't give up the fight, Black progress
[00:30.89] For equal rights, Black progress
[00:33.59] Love is what we need, Black progress
[00:36.05] One humanity, uh, if you feel me
[00:40.44] Black liberty stands out there
[00:42.31] Aye, I gotta get it, gots, gots to get it
[00:45.03] I heard white privilege got cops acquitted
[00:47.36] As if somehow firing shots not deliberate
[00:50.05] Or second-class citizenship's not the business
[00:52.55] The loss of a history, a language, a religion
[00:54.80] Didn't cause our story the glory God intended
[00:57.36] We went from Juneteenth to the Thirteenth Amendment
[00:59.80] And fightin' to get free when the world seems against it
[01:02.69] My mother's skin color was Lupita Nyong'o's
[01:05.16] Black light, what people tend to see with their eyes closed
[01:07.88] My thoughts like the river runnin' free in the Congo
[01:10.27] Or James Baldwin and Nikki G in a convo
[01:12.72] We in a stronghold buildin' on Frantz Fanon
[01:15.42] Tryna take an acre of solid ground to stand on
[01:17.87] And they hate a liberated mind like Kofi Annan
[01:20.36] But fear don't pump through this heart, I got my hand on
[01:22.94] We can't be compelled by trivial objects
[01:25.06] That'll have us deviate from the plan or digress
[01:27.81] Let's stand arm in arm and demand what's ours next
[01:30.26] That's power to the people of the land, time to invest
[01:33.98] Uh, Black progress
[01:33.98] Downpressed for too long, Black progress
[01:36.35] Now let's stand up strong, Black progress
[01:39.13] Cuz we won't give up the fight, Black progress
[01:41.54] For equal rights, Black progress
[01:44.20] Love is what we need, Black progress
[01:46.88] One humanity, hey, if you feel me
[01:51.14] Black liberty stands out there
[01:52.69] Yo, stand up for Black progress
[01:53.73] The Black constitution already in effect
[01:56.28] The work start and we to do the rest
[01:57.91] King Selassie I already write the full concept
[02:00.56] Bring the Black world together under the EWF
[02:03.05] Invest in our own ways, not Gucci nor Guess
[02:06.36] We nurture our own interests
[02:08.02] Build a stronger civilization, one no which can test
[02:10.65] Better than them ever seen because the most God bless
[02:13.13] Socially and economically, we get strong
[02:15.63] Every Black youth a come up with a righteous plan
[02:18.24] All the hatred cancel, all the war get ban
[02:20.60] Work together 'til the nation are the richest one
[02:23.10] As it's said, the Blacks in Harlem must form the congress
[02:26.42] Bridge the gap between the East and West
[02:28.32] Rastaman inna Jamaica get a different quest
[02:30.83] Fill up the shashaman and land me coffee cah impress
[02:33.69] Uh, Black progress
[02:34.58] Downpressed for too long, Black progress
[02:36.97] Now let's stand up strong, Black progress
[02:39.75] Cuz we won't give up the fight, Black progress
[02:42.20] For equal rights, Black progress
[02:44.93] Love is what we need, Black progress
[02:47.44] One humanity, uh, if you feel me
[02:51.86] Black liberty stands out there
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