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Sometimes |
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You just gotta |
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Go! |
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You would never know what you could ever be |
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If you never tried, you would never see |
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Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave |
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So there wasn't no slaves in our history black |
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Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery |
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Call me crazy, or isn't he? |
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See I fell asleep, and I had a dream |
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It was all black everything |
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Uh, and we ain't get exploited |
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White man ain't fear it, so he did not destroy it |
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We ain't work for free, see, they had to employ it |
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Built it up together, so we equally appointed |
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First 400 years, see, we actually enjoyed it |
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Constitution written by W.E.B DeBois |
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Wasn't no Reconstruction, Civil War got avoided |
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Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer |
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Extra, extra, on the newsstands |
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Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan |
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Malcolm Little dies as an old man |
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Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him |
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Followed by Bill O'Reilly, who read from the Qu'ran |
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President Bush sends condolences from Iran |
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Where Fox News reports live |
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That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize black |
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You would never know what you could ever be |
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If you never tried, you would never see |
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Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave |
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So there wasn't no slaves in our history black |
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Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery |
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Call me crazy, or isn't he? |
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See I fell asleep, and I had a dream |
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It was all black everything |
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Uh, and it ain't no projects |
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Keepin' it real's not an understood concept |
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Yeah, complexion's not a contest |
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'Cause racism has no context |
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Hip-hop ain't got a section called conscious |
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Everybody rappin' like crack never happened |
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Crips never occurred, no Bloods to attack them |
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Matter fact, no hood to attack in |
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Somalia's a great place to relax in |
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Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin |
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The Rat Pack was a cool group of black men |
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That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons |
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Eminem fitted in, but then again |
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He inspired a black rapper tryna mimic him |
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And that's what really rose up out of Michigan |
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I signed a white rapper by the name of 50 Cent |
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You would never know what you could ever be |
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If you never tried, you would never see |
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Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave |
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So there wasn't no slaves in our history black |
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Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery |
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Call me crazy, or isn't he? |
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See I fell asleep, and I had a dream |
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It was all black everything |
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Uh, and I know this just a fantasy |
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I cordially invite you to ask, "Why can't it be?" |
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Now we can't do nothin' 'bout the past |
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But we can do something 'bout the future that we have |
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We can make it fast, or we can make it last |
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Every woman queen, and every man a king, and |
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When those color lines come, we can't see between |
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We just close our eyes 'til it's all black everything |
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You would never know what you could ever be |
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If you never tried, you would never see |
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Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave |
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So there wasn't no slaves in our history black |
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Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery |
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Call me crazy, or isn't he? |
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See I fell asleep, and I had a dream |
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It was all black everything |
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All black everything |
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Yeah, all black everything |
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Yeah, all black everything |
