Beautiful People

[Intro: Chuck D & A$AP Ferg]

We got our ways, but ain't we human beings too?

If our lives don't matter, no lives matter

Thus, life of our future, dying is unacceptable

Living for what we believe in is life itself (Uh)

And that in itself is beautiful, people (Uh)

[Verse 1: A$AP Ferg]

Beautiful people, let's take a second and think

We continue these issues, our ship will drown and we sink

This is nothing political, this is so we be sync

Stick together forever and we'll weather the rain

We'll weather the storm, let's try to move on

Build a better community so our children be norm'

Transform from arms and bombs like Vietnam

Teach your kid how to eat and teach your kid how to farm

Watch what you put in your body so we can live it long

Mind, body and soul in tact, proud and you strong

This rap ain't no lap, it's more like a marathon

This track ain't no track, just something I set it on

Live life in harmony, put love in your arms

Forgive to receive the blessing of peace and calm

Just a product of Malcolm X and Farrakhan

Martin Luther and Marvin Gaye all through a ghetto song

[Chorus: A$AP Ferg & Nikki Grier]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

People, people, people, people

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful (Beautiful)

People, people, people, people

[Interlude: Mama Ferg]

Beautiful people can be defined by her hair, her eyes, her body

Beautiful people, beauty is behind the surface

It is the soul, the spirit that lies beneath the soul, the skin

It is the power of that beauty that holds us, that strengthens us

It is the way we dance when we wanna cry

It is our mind that creates the definition of the beauty

Clear your mind, clear your body

Reach for the strength within, we are all beautiful people

[Verse 2: A$AP Ferg]

All my beautiful people, all my beautiful people

I'm the ghetto apostle, come on, follow, I'll lead you

Tell 'em put down the pipes, the liquor bottles and needles

Treat your family right, your mommy and daughter need you

Grandma, auntie and cousin, OG told you 'bout thuggin'

But he ain't 'mount to nothing, he on top of that oven

Still on top of that corner, his little niggas be drummin'

Blicka-blocka, they buckin', they finna hit you with somethin'

Jack-o'-lantern with hammers, they finna open your pumpkin

Popping your collar pimping and this ain't nothin' 'bout stuntin'

If you ain't talkin' thuggin' then you ain't talkin' 'bout nothin'

Bullshit, I'm the Pope, I think I am onto something

I wanna empower people, wanna empower people

White, purple and yellow, and all of my browner people

We can be positive, don't let negativity kill you

First start with your friends then move a whole town of people