Black Progress

[Intro: Stephen Marley] Uh [Chorus: Stephen Marley] Black progress Down pressed for too long Black progress Now let's stand up strong Black progress Won't give up the fight Black progress For equal rights Black progress Love is what we need Black progress For humanity, uh If you feel me, black understands ya [Verse 1: Black Thought] Ayy, I gotta get it, gots gots to get it I heard white privilege got cops acquitted As if somehow violent shots not deliberate A second class citizenship's not the business The loss of a history and language of religion Didn't cause our story the glory God intended We went from Juneteenth to thе 13th amendment Fighting to get free whеn the world they're against us My mother's skin color was Lupita Nyong'o's Black like what people tend to see with their eyes closed My thoughts like a river running free in the Congo Or James Baldwin and Nikki G in a convo We in a stronghold building on Frantz Fanon Tryna take an acre or solid ground to stand on They hate a liberated mind like Kofi Annan But fear don't pump through this heart I put my hand on We can't be compelled by trivial objects That'll have us deviate from the plan that God crest Let's stand arm-in-arm with demand, what's ours next That's power to the people and land, time to invest [Chorus: Stephen Marley] Black progress Down pressed for too long Black progress Now let's stand up strong Black progress Won't give up the fight Black progress For equal rights Black progress Love is what we need Black progress For humanity, hey! If you feel me, black understands ya [Verse 2: Spragga Benz] Yo, it's that black progress The black constitution, I made it in effect The words start and we don't know the rest King Selassie I obeyed the right before concept Bring the black words again to under the darkskin Invest in our own it's not good and y'all guessed Without you all I want interest Build our self a civilization, run a wisdom test Better than dem ever seen it 'cause the most high bless Socially and economically we get strong Pray for black youth to come up with a righteous plan All the hatred chunks are out the way, get bunked Word together, build a nation on the riches won 'Cause it said the blacks are now at the most fun in Congress Bet you caught between the east and west Rastaman inna Jamaica in a different quest Shashamane got y’all impressed [Chorus: Stephen Marley] Black progress Down pressed for too long Black progress Now let's stand up strong Black progress Won't give up the fight Black progress For equal rights Black progress Love is what we need Black progress For humanity, uh If you feel me, black understands ya