BLACK.

BLACK. - Lalah Hathaway/Rapsody/Common

Lyrics by：Phil Beaudreau/Lalah Hathaway/Marlanna Evans/Lonnie Lynn

Composed by：Phil Beaudreau/Lalah Hathaway/Marlanna Evans/Lonnie Lynn

Arranged by：Phil Beaudreau/Lalah Hathaway

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

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

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 cliffs

Notes 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 through out 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