Black Is Beautiful

Black is beautiful to me

Wake up brethren Asian persuasion

Black is beautiful to me

Love Self sistren Asian persuasion

Black is beautiful to me

Respect brethren African persuasion

Black is beautiful to me

One Love sistren African persuasion

Afro-centric music is the roots but

Ever since birth I've wondered

Who, what, when, which, how did we get to this place

Island culture cultivate the race

Faces, basic smiles speak a thousand words

That go a million miles

Until we realize that we gotta stay true

Despite the lies, read between the lines

And move forward

Oh Lord

Heritage manifest in the color of the mane of our men and women

New born, blessed with natural melanin

Living and shine like filaments

Pitch black hair, rich black eyes

Capture the rapture of mother nature

Beyond Africa, Pan Pacifica, Antarctica to South America

Health before wealth in the kingdom of righteous

Fight until death do us part and I might just

Travel to the depth of the heart of Atlantis

Pledge to the state of the art so I plan this

Expedition as my mission all the while

Competition lose not knowing why

Til the day I chill in the east of the River Nile

Real skill, real deal never go out of style yeah

Who wanna test their blackness?

Let me guess, fake jocks frontin' like Loch Ness

Life blessed you to look the best

When you're dressed with less but cover the rest

Some kids with straight strands want dread locks

Some girls with a fro want to straighten their chops

It's all good we all grow out of it just like hair-do

You gotta vibe and flow with it just like air do

'Round the globe youth carry the hope

That one day everything's gonna be just fine now

Press rewind to a world color blind

Zero complex, find a space all mine

I grew up on the East Coast, opposite of Ivory

In the 21st, reckon economic slavery

Beyond Africa, Latin America, through Jamaica back to Japonica

Man and machine make the money that manipulate

Mind over matter meaning make moves to motivate

Before we globalize commercially

We need to mobilize community to spread the music with mercy

'Cuz exploitation is the blast from the past

Conversation help future visions last

Til the day I fill the post I'm supposed to live by

Real skill, real deal never go out of style yeah

Black is beautiful to me

Respect all state, all color, all race

Black is beautiful to me

One love, one god, one mind, one heart

INI, You and I, realize U-N-I-T-Y

INI, You and I, realize U-N-I-T-Y

Receive, Respect, Reflect

Pass it on, pass it on, pass it on

Receive, Respect, Reflect

Pass it on, pass it on, pass it on