Black Progress

Uh

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
One humanity, uh
If you feel me, black liberty stans out there

Ay, 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, a language of religion
Didn't cause our story to glory God intended
We went from Juneteenth to the 13th amendment
And fighting to get free when the world seems against us
My mother's skin color was Lupita Nyong'o's
Black like, what people tend to see see when they eyes close
My thoughts like a river running free in the Congo
Or James Balwdwin and Nikki G in a convo
We in a stronghold, building of France phenom
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 like trivial objects
That'll have us deviate from the plan that God crest
Let's stand arm-in-arm with the man who's heart's next
That's power to the people of land, time to invest

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
One humanity, hey
If you feel me, black liberty stans out there (yo)

Ah dis a black progress
The black constitution already in effect
The words start and we to do the rest
King Selassie I already write the full concept
Bring the black world together under the middle of earth
Invest in our own, nuh waste, not Gucci nor Guess
We nurture our own interest
Build a stronger civilization, one weh withstand test
Better than dem ever seen becah the Most High bless
Socially and economically we get strong
Every black yute ah come up with a righteous plan
All di hatred cancelled, all di war get ban
Work together, build a nation, ah di richest one
as it said, di blacks and all dem must form di Congress
Split the gap between the East and West
Rastaman inna Jamaica it a different quest
Big up the Shashamane land, mi coffe black empress

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
One humanity, uh
If you feel me, black liberty stans out there