Black Superhero

[Intro]

Yeah (Up in the sky)

(It's a bird, it's a plane)

Hmm, sound like some superhero shit (Up in the sky)

Some Black superhero shit

(Up in the sky) Hmm, damn

Oh yeah

[Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (Up in the sky)

Need a Black superhero (It's a bird)

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a plane)

Need a Black superhero

[Verse 1: Killer Mike]

You need a nigga roll like me

Military mind stated and I keep a gun and a degree

You can label me a Huey P

Made a martyr outta Martin, outta Malcolm, outta Medgar

I refuse to let these dirty devils make my Gullah beggar

Fuck a hero see, oh, I will go make heed, oh, for my people

Give me liberty or death, that is my credo, not my ego

Dressed in a tuxedo, enter party, alter ego

Killed your need of it, gazebo did it for the people

Love what motivated, I did not do it for hatred

But I truly hate the devil, I cannot debate or fake it

I was asked a question and I asked about it hard

If I was facing death, then I could ask one thing of God

I would ask for every nigga to be free here and abroad

And to be rightfully celebrated as a child of God

And to be rightfully celebrated as a child of God (As a child of God)

[Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a plane)

Need a Black superhero

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (Up in the sky)

Need a Black superhero

[Verse 2: BJ the Chicago Kid]

Our own kind took Nip' from us

Money still read, "In God we trust"

Truthfully we envy, so why we so envious?

And why our own kind envy us?

Pac said it's hard, but we gotta keep our head up

Goin' even though we know we fed up

It's hella tension 'cause we ain't careful where we all pay attention

I need all my real soldiers on the front line

Fighting for the right shit just one time

So unstoppable together at the same time, with the same mind

Yeah, we wanna be high and always above what's beneath us, so

[Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)

Need a Black superhero (It's a bird, it's a plane)

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)

Need a Black superhero

[Verse 3: Big K.R.I.T.]

I'm talking bulletproof kinda suit

Reflect the struggle that they put us through, with a shrimp

To fight the power like Chuck D'll do, with the insight to be equal

Know the sky need it, a voice that finds reason

To multiply people in the streets full of calls

Marching on Washington might as well be walking through walls

Type of superhero show up with ain't no one to call

That'll shield you from them shields that been killing us all

High beam for eye to peep, the villains and the door

Power of resolution 'fore a war was even started

The knowledge to build and grow where they live

And take care of the kids and the older folk

The queens 'cause they need it most

Politic with the kings, a body cannot a grow

True PTSD, 'cause mental health ain't a joke

Feed the hungry, and though, everyone would know everywhere we go

[Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)

Need a Black superhero

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (Up in the sky)

Need a Black superhero

[Bridge]

It's gon' take one of us to save us, it's gon' take love and a lot of trust

We just took it, have faith and know that

Long as you got mine, I got your back, I know

It's gon' take one of us to save us, it's gon' take love and a lot of trust

We just took it, have faith and know that

Long as you got mine, I got your back, I know (Know that)

[Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]

Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a plane)

Need a Black superhero (Need a Black superhero)

[Outro: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah]

You know, just, just the idea of how Black men in this culture and society get framed

And how everything possible is actually designed to actually diminish what your true power is, right?

And so, when you speak about the superhero-ness of our communities

Every ghetto, every block, every street corner

Really, all of those men are God, they're just living in a reality that tears them down

And makes them feels as though they're not what they actually are

'Cause they know it when they look in the mirror

The female take on it

You know, and on some levels, it's a little more heartbreaking, right?

Because, like, we've created this reality that walks away from us being clear of all the fact that the Black woman is actually the goddess on this planet (Absolutely)

The mitochondrial information that's read was to create every type of man that exists on this planet is derivative of hers (Absolutely)

Right? So, we actually have to sit there figuring out

Which being on this planet actually constitutes God?

And that term, if we're framing it in that way

The actual living God on this planet

The only direction you can point in is the direction of the Black woman

First like, us as an extension of her, but firstly her, right?

Because none of it exists without her