Roots Of Blue Lyrics
| Song | Roots Of Blue |
| Artist | Blu & Exile |
| Artist | Jacinto Rhines |
| Album | Miles |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| [01:22.758] | Before the Dutch man came to claim Zulu land in apartheid's name |
| [01:34.134] | Made by God |
| [01:55.974] | Yo, check it |
| [01:57.058] | Yo, I'm the first man standing upright, holding a stone in my hand |
| [02:00.296] | After beating an ape, claiming the land |
| [02:02.815] | Taking the stand and feeding my fam |
| [02:04.612] | Back when man ate they children |
| [02:06.655] | I'm killing other animals just to nurture them |
| [02:09.073] | I journey further from mine, my people, into another culture |
| [02:12.076] | Not knowin' my brothers 'bout to come and take over (Ayo) |
| [02:14.852] | We made it all the way to Asia and to Australia |
| [02:17.641] | Then made the passage to the Americas after all behavior |
| [02:21.074] | Came home and they started makin' homes outta stone |
| [02:24.446] | Showin' tribes around 'em how much they've grown |
| [02:26.657] Yo, I'm [?] | at the end of the of start of civilization |
| [02:29.486] | I'm shuttin' it down, I'm settin' out to build a nation |
| [02:32.425] | I'm the son of Ra, the son of Ka, father of Africa |
| [02:35.507] | King Khafre and King Khufu, blood of the Zulu |
| [02:38.578] | Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anbuis, the Royal family |
| [02:41.415] | Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and all the Ramesses |
| [02:44.421] | Amam and Hotep, Mentuhotep, Thutmosis |
| [02:47.881] | Ahmosis, Kamose, is etymology of Moses |
| [02:50.257] | I'm the kings of Egypt, kings of Nubia, Mesopotamia |
| [02:53.331] | Mediterranean, Babylon, Saudi Arabia |
| [02:56.076] | I'm Muhammad comin' outta the Middle East after the Romans |
| [02:59.276] | Reclaiming their gold, homin' their throne 'cause they own it |
| [03:02.504] | I'm on the first boats to reach America |
| [03:05.104] | We all African, we sold you to America, we not coming back |
| [03:09.281] [?] | |
| [03:20.272] | Ayo, I'm Adam, the original man banned from the garden |
| [03:22.737] | I'm Noah, pardon the flood, after the revolution started |
| [03:25.843] | I'm Japheth, I'm Shem, and I'm Ham |
| [03:27.704] | I'm Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the motherland |
| [03:30.465] | I'm Moses posin' against the king, freein' his people |
| [03:33.661] | I'm Babylon, tryna reach God by buildin' a steeple |
| [03:36.551] | I'm the strongest man, Samson |
| [03:38.564] | I'm the first king, Samuel |
| [03:39.989] | The prestigious king, Saul |
| [03:41.508] | Son of King David, I'm Solomon |
| [03:42.920] | I'm preachin' to the choir like Elijah |
| [03:44.982] | Isaiah, Jeremiah and, not a king higher than King Hezekiah |
| [03:49.263] | I'm on fire like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego |
| [03:52.441] | I'm Jonah and the whale |
| [03:54.220] | Daniel in the lion's den |
| [03:55.555] | I'm Job with just a little hope |
| [03:57.088] | I'm John The Baptist, the messiah's comin' |
| [03:59.503] | God's son, Jesus Christ of Nazerath |
| [04:01.486] | Thank Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the narrative |
| [04:04.587] | And Paul for all the passages |
| [04:06.040] | Apostolic Episcopal before Constantine |
| [04:09.295] | Constant persecution, first century |
| [04:11.617] | Eventually, revolution |
| [04:13.167] | Islam, sixth century and on and on |
| [04:16.077] | Slavery, where are you takin' me to, huh? America? |
| [04:30.657] | Yo, I'm Kunta Kinte 'fore he was enslaved by America |
| [04:34.008] | Picture the freedom before the terror |
| [04:36.070] | Who had to carry the black burners to Nat Turner |
| [04:38.817] | During a slave revolt, we came before Columbus dumped us |
| [04:41.992] | Off the slavery boat, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman |
| [04:45.641] | Yeah, we probably would still be slaves if it wasn't for Fredrick Douglas |
| [04:48.887] | I'm up in his government before all them like Booker Washington |
| [04:51.904] | With all his boys like W.E.B. Du Bois and Noble Drew Ali and Marcus Garvey |
| [04:56.640] | Takin' us to Africa like Chancellor Williams, Chandler Owens and Asa Randolph |
| [05:00.828] | Last of all the honorable Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad |
| [05:04.012] | Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and Thurgood Marshall |
| [05:06.787] | Richard Wright, Rosa Parks and Gordon Parks |
| [05:09.563] | Joe Lewis, Jackie Robinson and John Henrik Clarke |
| [05:12.284] | Alex Haley, James Baldwin |
| [05:14.244] | Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr, Clarence 13X |
| [05:18.687] | Maya Angelou, Ray Charles, Minister Farrakhan |
| [05:21.537] | Ivan Sertima, John Cochran, Stokely Carmichael |
| [05:24.902] | Emmett Till, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale |
| [05:27.327] | Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali and even Gil Scott-Heron |
| [05:31.198] | Al Sharpton, Fred Hampton, Oprah Winfrey |
| [05:33.821] | Barack Obama, Assata Shakur, 2Pac Shakur, Biggie |
| [05:36.800] | And everyone else creating black history |
| [05:39.179] | That lives with me everyday, until I'm gone |
| [05:49.908] | They took dark skin and they made a purse for a pale skin whore |
| [05:53.462] | Yo |
| [05:53.939] | I'm Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie |
| [05:57.061] | Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy |
| [06:00.052] | Sun Ra Orchestra, Charles Mingus, Ahmad Jamal |
| [06:02.734] | Milt Jack', Wes Mont', Herbie Hand-Cannonball |
| [06:05.711] | Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Screamin' Jay, Howlin' Wolf |
| [06:08.726] | Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, B.B King, Sam Cooke |
| [06:11.729] | Billie Holiday, Ella Fitz, Nina Simone |
| [06:14.618] | Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Diana Ross |
| [06:17.613] | Chaka Khan, Tina Turner and Roberta Flack |
| [06:20.581] | Al Green, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Michael Jack |
| [06:23.458] | Prince, Sly Stone, Curtis May |
| [06:25.593] | Roy Ayers, Temptations, 5th Dimension, O'Jays, Ohio Players |
| [06:29.584] | Earth, Wind and Fire, Funkadelic |
| [06:31.822] | Parliament, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles |
| [06:33.974] | Otis Redding and all the shit from the nineties |
| [06:36.689] | Eighties, seventies and sixties |
| [06:38.386] | The fifties, forties, thirties and all the twenties |
| [06:41.357] | All the armies, the Black Panther party, the nation |
| [06:43.633] | NAACP organizations |
| [06:46.634] | All the black NBA, NFL and MLB players |
| [06:49.881] | And we can't forget Shaka Zulu (Woo) |
| [06:51.804] | We see you brother, Mandela |
| [01:22.758] | Before the Dutch man came to claim Zulu land in apartheid' s name |
| [01:34.134] | Made by God |
| [01:55.974] | Yo, check it |
| [01:57.058] | Yo, I' m the first man standing upright, holding a stone in my hand |
| [02:00.296] | After beating an ape, claiming the land |
| [02:02.815] | Taking the stand and feeding my fam |
| [02:04.612] | Back when man ate they children |
| [02:06.655] | I' m killing other animals just to nurture them |
| [02:09.073] | I journey further from mine, my people, into another culture |
| [02:12.076] | Not knowin' my brothers ' bout to come and take over Ayo |
| [02:14.852] | We made it all the way to Asia and to Australia |
| [02:17.641] | Then made the passage to the Americas after all behavior |
| [02:21.074] | Came home and they started makin' homes outta stone |
| [02:24.446] | Showin' tribes around ' em how much they' ve grown |
| [02:26.657] Yo, I'm [?] | at the end of the of start of civilization |
| [02:29.486] | I' m shuttin' it down, I' m settin' out to build a nation |
| [02:32.425] | I' m the son of Ra, the son of Ka, father of Africa |
| [02:35.507] | King Khafre and King Khufu, blood of the Zulu |
| [02:38.578] | Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anbuis, the Royal family |
| [02:41.415] | Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and all the Ramesses |
| [02:44.421] | Amam and Hotep, Mentuhotep, Thutmosis |
| [02:47.881] | Ahmosis, Kamose, is etymology of Moses |
| [02:50.257] | I' m the kings of Egypt, kings of Nubia, Mesopotamia |
| [02:53.331] | Mediterranean, Babylon, Saudi Arabia |
| [02:56.076] | I' m Muhammad comin' outta the Middle East after the Romans |
| [02:59.276] | Reclaiming their gold, homin' their throne ' cause they own it |
| [03:02.504] | I' m on the first boats to reach America |
| [03:05.104] | We all African, we sold you to America, we not coming back |
| [03:09.281] [?] | |
| [03:20.272] | Ayo, I' m Adam, the original man banned from the garden |
| [03:22.737] | I' m Noah, pardon the flood, after the revolution started |
| [03:25.843] | I' m Japheth, I' m Shem, and I' m Ham |
| [03:27.704] | I' m Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the motherland |
| [03:30.465] | I' m Moses posin' against the king, freein' his people |
| [03:33.661] | I' m Babylon, tryna reach God by buildin' a steeple |
| [03:36.551] | I' m the strongest man, Samson |
| [03:38.564] | I' m the first king, Samuel |
| [03:39.989] | The prestigious king, Saul |
| [03:41.508] | Son of King David, I' m Solomon |
| [03:42.920] | I' m preachin' to the choir like Elijah |
| [03:44.982] | Isaiah, Jeremiah and, not a king higher than King Hezekiah |
| [03:49.263] | I' m on fire like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego |
| [03:52.441] | I' m Jonah and the whale |
| [03:54.220] | Daniel in the lion' s den |
| [03:55.555] | I' m Job with just a little hope |
| [03:57.088] | I' m John The Baptist, the messiah' s comin' |
| [03:59.503] | God' s son, Jesus Christ of Nazerath |
| [04:01.486] | Thank Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the narrative |
| [04:04.587] | And Paul for all the passages |
| [04:06.040] | Apostolic Episcopal before Constantine |
| [04:09.295] | Constant persecution, first century |
| [04:11.617] | Eventually, revolution |
| [04:13.167] | Islam, sixth century and on and on |
| [04:16.077] | Slavery, where are you takin' me to, huh? America? |
| [04:30.657] | Yo, I' m Kunta Kinte ' fore he was enslaved by America |
| [04:34.008] | Picture the freedom before the terror |
| [04:36.070] | Who had to carry the black burners to Nat Turner |
| [04:38.817] | During a slave revolt, we came before Columbus dumped us |
| [04:41.992] | Off the slavery boat, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman |
| [04:45.641] | Yeah, we probably would still be slaves if it wasn' t for Fredrick Douglas |
| [04:48.887] | I' m up in his government before all them like Booker Washington |
| [04:51.904] | With all his boys like W. E. B. Du Bois and Noble Drew Ali and Marcus Garvey |
| [04:56.640] | Takin' us to Africa like Chancellor Williams, Chandler Owens and Asa Randolph |
| [05:00.828] | Last of all the honorable Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad |
| [05:04.012] | Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and Thurgood Marshall |
| [05:06.787] | Richard Wright, Rosa Parks and Gordon Parks |
| [05:09.563] | Joe Lewis, Jackie Robinson and John Henrik Clarke |
| [05:12.284] | Alex Haley, James Baldwin |
| [05:14.244] | Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr, Clarence 13X |
| [05:18.687] | Maya Angelou, Ray Charles, Minister Farrakhan |
| [05:21.537] | Ivan Sertima, John Cochran, Stokely Carmichael |
| [05:24.902] | Emmett Till, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale |
| [05:27.327] | Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali and even Gil Scott-Heron |
| [05:31.198] | Al Sharpton, Fred Hampton, Oprah Winfrey |
| [05:33.821] | Barack Obama, Assata Shakur, 2Pac Shakur, Biggie |
| [05:36.800] | And everyone else creating black history |
| [05:39.179] | That lives with me everyday, until I' m gone |
| [05:49.908] | They took dark skin and they made a purse for a pale skin whore |
| [05:53.462] | Yo |
| [05:53.939] | I' m Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie |
| [05:57.061] | Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy |
| [06:00.052] | Sun Ra Orchestra, Charles Mingus, Ahmad Jamal |
| [06:02.734] | Milt Jack', Wes Mont', Herbie Hand-Cannonball |
| [06:05.711] | Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Screamin' Jay, Howlin' Wolf |
| [06:08.726] | Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, B. B King, Sam Cooke |
| [06:11.729] | Billie Holiday, Ella Fitz, Nina Simone |
| [06:14.618] | Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Diana Ross |
| [06:17.613] | Chaka Khan, Tina Turner and Roberta Flack |
| [06:20.581] | Al Green, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Michael Jack |
| [06:23.458] | Prince, Sly Stone, Curtis May |
| [06:25.593] | Roy Ayers, Temptations, 5th Dimension, O' Jays, Ohio Players |
| [06:29.584] | Earth, Wind and Fire, Funkadelic |
| [06:31.822] | Parliament, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles |
| [06:33.974] | Otis Redding and all the shit from the nineties |
| [06:36.689] | Eighties, seventies and sixties |
| [06:38.386] | The fifties, forties, thirties and all the twenties |
| [06:41.357] | All the armies, the Black Panther party, the nation |
| [06:43.633] | NAACP organizations |
| [06:46.634] | All the black NBA, NFL and MLB players |
| [06:49.881] | And we can' t forget Shaka Zulu Woo |
| [06:51.804] | We see you brother, Mandela |
| [01:22.758] | Before the Dutch man came to claim Zulu land in apartheid' s name |
| [01:34.134] | Made by God |
| [01:55.974] | Yo, check it |
| [01:57.058] | Yo, I' m the first man standing upright, holding a stone in my hand |
| [02:00.296] | After beating an ape, claiming the land |
| [02:02.815] | Taking the stand and feeding my fam |
| [02:04.612] | Back when man ate they children |
| [02:06.655] | I' m killing other animals just to nurture them |
| [02:09.073] | I journey further from mine, my people, into another culture |
| [02:12.076] | Not knowin' my brothers ' bout to come and take over Ayo |
| [02:14.852] | We made it all the way to Asia and to Australia |
| [02:17.641] | Then made the passage to the Americas after all behavior |
| [02:21.074] | Came home and they started makin' homes outta stone |
| [02:24.446] | Showin' tribes around ' em how much they' ve grown |
| [02:26.657] Yo, I'm [?] | at the end of the of start of civilization |
| [02:29.486] | I' m shuttin' it down, I' m settin' out to build a nation |
| [02:32.425] | I' m the son of Ra, the son of Ka, father of Africa |
| [02:35.507] | King Khafre and King Khufu, blood of the Zulu |
| [02:38.578] | Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anbuis, the Royal family |
| [02:41.415] | Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and all the Ramesses |
| [02:44.421] | Amam and Hotep, Mentuhotep, Thutmosis |
| [02:47.881] | Ahmosis, Kamose, is etymology of Moses |
| [02:50.257] | I' m the kings of Egypt, kings of Nubia, Mesopotamia |
| [02:53.331] | Mediterranean, Babylon, Saudi Arabia |
| [02:56.076] | I' m Muhammad comin' outta the Middle East after the Romans |
| [02:59.276] | Reclaiming their gold, homin' their throne ' cause they own it |
| [03:02.504] | I' m on the first boats to reach America |
| [03:05.104] | We all African, we sold you to America, we not coming back |
| [03:09.281] [?] | |
| [03:20.272] | Ayo, I' m Adam, the original man banned from the garden |
| [03:22.737] | I' m Noah, pardon the flood, after the revolution started |
| [03:25.843] | I' m Japheth, I' m Shem, and I' m Ham |
| [03:27.704] | I' m Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the motherland |
| [03:30.465] | I' m Moses posin' against the king, freein' his people |
| [03:33.661] | I' m Babylon, tryna reach God by buildin' a steeple |
| [03:36.551] | I' m the strongest man, Samson |
| [03:38.564] | I' m the first king, Samuel |
| [03:39.989] | The prestigious king, Saul |
| [03:41.508] | Son of King David, I' m Solomon |
| [03:42.920] | I' m preachin' to the choir like Elijah |
| [03:44.982] | Isaiah, Jeremiah and, not a king higher than King Hezekiah |
| [03:49.263] | I' m on fire like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego |
| [03:52.441] | I' m Jonah and the whale |
| [03:54.220] | Daniel in the lion' s den |
| [03:55.555] | I' m Job with just a little hope |
| [03:57.088] | I' m John The Baptist, the messiah' s comin' |
| [03:59.503] | God' s son, Jesus Christ of Nazerath |
| [04:01.486] | Thank Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the narrative |
| [04:04.587] | And Paul for all the passages |
| [04:06.040] | Apostolic Episcopal before Constantine |
| [04:09.295] | Constant persecution, first century |
| [04:11.617] | Eventually, revolution |
| [04:13.167] | Islam, sixth century and on and on |
| [04:16.077] | Slavery, where are you takin' me to, huh? America? |
| [04:30.657] | Yo, I' m Kunta Kinte ' fore he was enslaved by America |
| [04:34.008] | Picture the freedom before the terror |
| [04:36.070] | Who had to carry the black burners to Nat Turner |
| [04:38.817] | During a slave revolt, we came before Columbus dumped us |
| [04:41.992] | Off the slavery boat, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman |
| [04:45.641] | Yeah, we probably would still be slaves if it wasn' t for Fredrick Douglas |
| [04:48.887] | I' m up in his government before all them like Booker Washington |
| [04:51.904] | With all his boys like W. E. B. Du Bois and Noble Drew Ali and Marcus Garvey |
| [04:56.640] | Takin' us to Africa like Chancellor Williams, Chandler Owens and Asa Randolph |
| [05:00.828] | Last of all the honorable Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad |
| [05:04.012] | Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and Thurgood Marshall |
| [05:06.787] | Richard Wright, Rosa Parks and Gordon Parks |
| [05:09.563] | Joe Lewis, Jackie Robinson and John Henrik Clarke |
| [05:12.284] | Alex Haley, James Baldwin |
| [05:14.244] | Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr, Clarence 13X |
| [05:18.687] | Maya Angelou, Ray Charles, Minister Farrakhan |
| [05:21.537] | Ivan Sertima, John Cochran, Stokely Carmichael |
| [05:24.902] | Emmett Till, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale |
| [05:27.327] | Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali and even Gil Scott-Heron |
| [05:31.198] | Al Sharpton, Fred Hampton, Oprah Winfrey |
| [05:33.821] | Barack Obama, Assata Shakur, 2Pac Shakur, Biggie |
| [05:36.800] | And everyone else creating black history |
| [05:39.179] | That lives with me everyday, until I' m gone |
| [05:49.908] | They took dark skin and they made a purse for a pale skin whore |
| [05:53.462] | Yo |
| [05:53.939] | I' m Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie |
| [05:57.061] | Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy |
| [06:00.052] | Sun Ra Orchestra, Charles Mingus, Ahmad Jamal |
| [06:02.734] | Milt Jack', Wes Mont', Herbie Hand-Cannonball |
| [06:05.711] | Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Screamin' Jay, Howlin' Wolf |
| [06:08.726] | Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, B. B King, Sam Cooke |
| [06:11.729] | Billie Holiday, Ella Fitz, Nina Simone |
| [06:14.618] | Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Diana Ross |
| [06:17.613] | Chaka Khan, Tina Turner and Roberta Flack |
| [06:20.581] | Al Green, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Michael Jack |
| [06:23.458] | Prince, Sly Stone, Curtis May |
| [06:25.593] | Roy Ayers, Temptations, 5th Dimension, O' Jays, Ohio Players |
| [06:29.584] | Earth, Wind and Fire, Funkadelic |
| [06:31.822] | Parliament, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles |
| [06:33.974] | Otis Redding and all the shit from the nineties |
| [06:36.689] | Eighties, seventies and sixties |
| [06:38.386] | The fifties, forties, thirties and all the twenties |
| [06:41.357] | All the armies, the Black Panther party, the nation |
| [06:43.633] | NAACP organizations |
| [06:46.634] | All the black NBA, NFL and MLB players |
| [06:49.881] | And we can' t forget Shaka Zulu Woo |
| [06:51.804] | We see you brother, Mandela |
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