Black Excellence

Napoleon Da Legend [verse 1]

Hey yo Netflix cut Monique a check give her what she worth
Let her earn so we get it when we get our turn
Race and gender always part of the agenda
Imagine if we all came together like Avengers
From the fringes to pop-culture mainstream
Even though my name seems politically incorrect I’m still threat
Like Alcinder at the rim staring at the winter
Like Kaepernick on his knee like an Aborigi....
Just a tad richer and a tad is relative
Reminisce my days past had spat with relatives
Sprinkle some western education mixed with melanin
Tell a friend to tell my friend my opps took an "L" again
Duke Ellington smooth not what they tell you at school
If you don’t research I can tell you a fool
Buying more shit so you fit more they slept on me so I snuck through while they snored this what I'm built for
Killgore slash king without the decor
Non shaded untainted my fabric my raw
When I got back from Comores? I was lost and confused
A young adult still with something to prove
Had to shake it up and move
That’s the best thing I ever did
Caught ya attention like a chick with a big set of tits
Getting paid for conversation that’s my type of life
I had to try quench my insatiable appetite
Once In a blue moon Cheese puffs and blue moons
In my boom boom room we hit it off boom boom
Whats ya definition of a coon?
Let’s set the rules so we can kick em all out and make room
Black Excellence

Keni Burke [Chorus]

Napoleon Da Legend [verse 2]

Black excellence what does that mean?
Being black excellent with an immaculate team?
Being black and relevant thats an industry term
Having melanin? and hitting the epitome curve?
Is it uplifting or marketing? Am I drifting?
Is it pitch to make money and another gimmick ?
To fool blacks and other into buying a product?
Is it for profit? and is there something wrong profit?
Is a benchmark? For all to strive to reach for?
Is it detour? An insecurity hiding a deep flaw?
Is it really the best? Who selects em?
People in power? Making money off of our affection?
Black excellence I like that term
Cause why not? Try to be best in all your work
You push me i push you pull me I pull you
Cause I don’t see any other way we gonna pull thru
This terrain complex full of pain and bomb threat
Frame of mind of a young bull mix with a calm vet
If it’s about progress then I’m on deck
You can miss me with all the rest you on the wrong thread
And If you ain’t about the people u a non-threat
Cause without the action black excellence is just a concept
We got the rock now lets run the play
Black excellence minus the black on black gun-play
And that’s on any given Sunday we done prayed
We gonna raise the bar
Born from the particles that make stars

Nina Simone [speech]
"My job is to somehow persuade them
To get more aware of themselves and where they came
From and what they are into and what's already there
And to bring it out. This is what compels me to compel them
And I will do it by whatever means necessary..."

Keni Burke [hook]