All Black Everything - Lupe Fiasco

Sometimes

You just gotta

Go

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never tried you would never see

Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave

So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )

Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery

Call me crazy or isn't he

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

Uh and we ain't get exploited

White man ain't fear it so he did not destroy it

We ain't work for free see they had to employ it

Built it up together so we equally appointed

First 400 years see we actually enjoyed it

Constitution written by W E B DeBois

Wasn't no Reconstruction Civil War got avoided

Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer

Extra extra on the newsstands

Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan

Malcolm Little dies as an old man

Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him

Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Qu'ran

President Bush sends condolences from Iran

Where Fox News reports live

That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize (All black everything )

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never tried you would never see

Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave

So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )

Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery

Call me crazy or isn't he

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

Uh and it ain't no projects

Keepin' it real's not an understood concept

Yeah complexion's not a contest

'Cause racism has no context

Hip-hop ain't got a section called conscious

Everybody rappin' like crack never happened

Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them

Matter fact no hood to attack in

Somalia's a great place to relax in

Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin

The Rat Pack was a cool group of black men

That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons

Eminem fitted in but then again

He inspired a black rapper tryna mimic him

And that's what really rose up out of Michigan

I signed a white rapper by the name of 50 Cent

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never tried you would never see

Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave

So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )

Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery

Call me crazy or isn't he

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

Uh and I know this just a fantasy

I cordially invite you to ask "Why can't it be "

Now we can't do nothin' 'bout the past

But we can do something 'bout the future that we have

We can make it fast or we can make it last

Every woman queen and every man a king and

When those color lines come we can't see between

We just close our eyes 'til it's all black everything

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never tried you would never see

Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave

So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything )

Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery

Call me crazy or isn't he

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

All black everything

Yeah all black everything

Yeah all black everything