Black Progress

[Intro: Stephen Marley]

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[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