Black Is Beautiful

[Spoken Intro: Malcolm X]

They put their club upside your head

And then turn around and accuse you of attacking them

Every case of police brutality against a Negro follows the same pattern

They attack you, bust you all upside your mouth

And then take you to court and charge you with assault

What kind of democracy is that?

[Verse 1: E-40]

Uh, although it's uncertain times I still smile

Social injustice and racial profile

Forty acres and a mule

Black history should be a mandatory class in school

Strong-minded, solid like granite

We the most forgiving human beings on the planet

They the raped the men in our family in front of wives

Tried to make us look weak in front of our kids, dehumanize

And our leadership hella devil-sent

Got in the White House by trolling our only Black president

Evil, evil, evil

Brainwashed our people, say, "What Obama do for Black people?"

Me personally, I wanna fade

Fell out with so-called friends 'cause they drunk the Kool-Aid

They whipped us and hung us up on a tree

Lit us on the fire so the community could see

[Chorus: E-40 & Sample]

(Black is beautiful) Black is beautiful

(Set our warriors free) Set our warriors free

(Black is beautiful) Black is beautiful

(Set our warriors free) Set us free

[Verse 2: Big K.R.I.T.]

It's crazy how my beautiful skin

Could get me strapped up, strung up, swung in the wind

Tasered, maced, and cuffed, arm under my chin

Kneeled on, wheeled on, call for mama again

Dragged from the back of a pick-up for people to see

K-9 that bite down, now there's flesh in their teeth

Douse me in gas, burn the ash and left in the streets

And even then, some white folk'll take a picture with me

My beautiful skin could also get me thrown on a boat

Live by the flow, my name, chain, culture revolt

Pray to the heavens 'cause hell on earth is all that I know

My skin made it where I got nowhere to go

When my people were trying to escape, they either killed or they capture us

And now they got the nerve to tell me "Go back to Africa"

African-American, my ancestors died for it

So fuck them racist motherfuckers, I'ma ride for it

Black is beautiful

[Chorus: E-40 & Sample]

(Black is beautiful) Black is beautiful

(Set our warriors free) Set our warriors free

(Black is beautiful) Black is beautiful

(Set our warriors free) Set us free

[Bridge: Big K.R.I.T. & E-40]

Black is god, black is beautiful to me

Behold the shine, set our warriors free

(Set our warriors free)

Black is god, black is beautiful to me (Uh)

Behold the shine, set our warriors free

(Set our warriors free)

[Chorus: E-40 & Sample]

(Black is beautiful) Black is beautiful

(Set our warriors free) Set our warriors free

(Black is beautiful) Black is beautiful

(Set our warriors free) Set us free