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Black Is... Lyrics by Tall Black Guy & Ozay Moore

Of Process and Progression

2021

[Intro: Daniel Steele]
My mother said there would be days like this
My poppa taught me how to make a fist
My abuelita taught me how to pray
Just to make it through the day
And never look the other way
[Verse 1: Ozay Moore]
Lovin her skin, I'm in that
Butter cinnamon black
The oversimplified answer to where you from
Knowing the question can't be satisfied by
Claiming a spot on the map
See I'll make you a million
And grew up in a wicked chair, rightful spear
Pops prepared the living room for schooling
To get me where I understood what it meant to be human
And unfortunately in my life I'd have to fight to prove it
Rightful spear, pen and pad, [?]
Tools for the revolution
Belief in balance came later
Knowing the constitution
Was forged out of white supremacy
Check the context [?]
Strength in unity, so divide and conquer is how they do it
Black indigenous in every shade, kissed by the sun
Fist up for the struggle
Understand what you want
Despite the constructs
We construct better together
Praise God for the melanin
It feel better than ever
[Verse 2: Sareem Poems]
Blacker than the bottom of the ocean
Live this everyday
Don't ever question my devotion
Suntan lotion won't get you close to this
My beautiful, natural, god-given pigment
A figment of imagination I am not
Say you don't see color cuz it's hard to watch
The mind, body, and soul of a human being
Being pulverized live on your TV screen
I been a vic from King's dream, murdered on the balcony
And I still smile knowing racists got it out for me
The current state of things make hope hard to see
A hug and smile from my two boys changes everything
I love being black, ain't nothing changing that
I'ma be alright, no matter how the odds are stacked
Family on my back, power to the people
We don't want revenge, we just wanna be equal, black
[Outro: Rich Medina]
And still, the alpha and the omega
You can describe me rightfully as the animal the dogwhistle blows so loud for, how about that?
My bite pressure is much too much for their racist bones though, so they gaslight jet-black me
Unaware that I'm wired with the nerve to survive the evils of the colonizer's plan to put whitey on the moon
And develop colonies of submissive coons, man listen
We are the proverbial overqualified underdog trapped in the white man's fear that
My progress means his loss
I mean, we've seen this movie before
And when the coin is tossed
It always lands in a cup of white tears
A ripple in your placid pool of dissonance, if you will
And still, blackness not only strives, but reinvents how to thrive
Despite the heels on our backs and the knees on our necks
Despite our prayers unanswered and typecast
As fallen from grace from the door
The animal trapped in a new plantation
The ever algorithmic and universally predictable white privilege
And the winters and falls between too black, too strong, and
The complexion for protection, laws written to gerrymander my voice
Back to the days of Jim Crow and sharecropping at best
Yet I stand here before you today
Fortified by my ordained connection to the earth
As the original man, the alpha and omega
My bite pressure, much too much for their racist bones
So they manufacture my narrative, revised
Full of conspiratorial theater and lies
The old narrative about who the black man is must die
The odds we battle are no small odds at all
And as you can see we have not lost any belief in ourselves or our purpose
Because our purpose is one of process and progression
Credits
Tall Black Guy & Ozay Moore

Tall Black Guy & Ozay Moore

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