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Black Wall Street Lyrics by Griot B

Ourstory

2018

I'm Black, You're Black Buy Black
You're Black, I'm Black Buy Black
I'm Black You're Black Buy Black
We're Black We're Black Buy Black
We need a Blac!k Black! Black Wallstreet
Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Let’s build a Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Imagine what would happen
If your favorite rapper rappin
Spent the money wasted on jewels
To open up some new schools Black Wallstreet
Nah this ain't Games click, it’s a black oasis
A place that came with, all black residents
School board president
Looks like the students so the policy ain't prejudiced
We didn’t have to settle with
Shade throwing haters. Those same folk that hate us
Those same folk that hang us
Granny said in the south black folk had it hard
Once her daddy was free he was offered one job
Sharecropping: same thing as indentured servant
Plus you had to pay boss man
To use the tools you worked with
The occupation most had after emancipation
For rent and your food ex master they were paying
That’s a cycle of debt, Just like the cycle today
‘Cus you work till your death, the deed ain't in your name
There’s little black wealth
Cus we making it rain
Pouring money into companies that won’t do the same
We need a Blac!k Black! Black Wallstreet
Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Let’s build a Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
We need a Blac!k Black! Black Wallstreet
Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Let’s build a Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Black! Black! Black Wallstreet
Put your money where your mouth
Put it where your house is
Buy all black everything, even outfits
Let me break it down
You have a dollar and you take it down the block
To the shop owned by Mr. Johnson and you cop
A black owned, Black made soda pop
Mr. Johnson says thanks for your business
Thanks a lot! And you like it
So you tell your friends to go buy it
Mr. Johnson’s business booms
So now he needs a sidekick
He hires, your best friend’s big brother (Mar)‘Quese
Now ‘Quese got a job so he’s staying off them streets
‘Quese grows up to be police
Serves the hood he grows up in
His partner says, “That kids a threat”
He says, “That’s my brother’s friend”
Quese’s bank is black. Mr. Johnson’s is too
That same black bank donates to your school
Shoot, that black owned soda company does too
That’s exactly what Black Wall Street did
Imagine every person in your hood money stacking
Wealth accumulating economic trapping
Griot B what happened?
Do you hear those bombs falling from the sky
Buildings burning down people dying left and right
But this ain't Iraq, this is Black Wall Street
Where Blacks owned buildings
Till the KKK came to kill ‘em
I’m talking Black hospitals, Black banks, Black schools
Black Pharmacy, Black judge, Blacks made the rules
Black owned businesses and Black owned planes
Till the KKK burned them down out of hate
“Why the KKK still here, but the Black Panthers gone? Why the Klan kill my granny’s dad, and burned a cross on his lawn? I’m just saying Griot B. That seams hella wrong. So why the KKK here, but the Black Panthers gone? Can you teach about that in a song?”
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