Lyrics black (wo)man and child - nic.

Wes the first creators
So we haffi really
Everything wey you see on this earth here
The black man make it
I not saying that the white man doh make some
But all wisdom come from the black man
You know a lot of young viewers look up to you
Are gonna wanna hang on every word and every syllable
Do you have a message for young people?

What you think about me says more about you
Than it does about me
When I beg you don't shoot
When I'm gasping for air as I cry out I can't breathe
Dear mama, what I do for them to hate me?
What is about us you fear the most?
Is it our eyes, our nose, our skin and bones?
Is it the fact this world started with us
A bloodline so exquisite, it runneth over my cup
You ever thought about how slavery started?
We had everything, from minerals to language
Astrology and physics, the science of mathematics
Knowledge, wisdom, understanding without western influencing
And when they sourced the resources
We approached with love, not knowing they'd take our freedom
We wept like Jesus, how could we not be God's children?
How could we not be God's children

The whole thing again is to really check out the truth
And don't get too busy, that you can't check out the truth
Cause the truth is there

The victor or the victim
The voice of oppression
The signs of the times tell me that the Lord's coming
A cry of desperation
A prayer for my bredrin
For man and women
My women and children
Yeah yeah

God bless the child that can hold his own
I gotta align my crown Chakra just to get in my zone
To get away from all of the chaos that the city is on
See this music is my catharsis in the purist of forms, now tell me
Who wanna rumble in the jungle where the mighty fumble?
The honorable, Elijah Muhammad taught me don't let this world become you
Through the trials and tribulations remember the God inside you
Although it's hard to stay righteous when these demons surround you
Yeah, the plight of a black man's life
Ain't nothing funny bout the precision that we need to survive
To walk outside and catch a virus, or get harassed by a cop
To be imprisoned or die by senseless shots, but I can't miss my shot
They told us walk in his image, but hid the pictures
Took away our spirituality but gave us scriptures
It's all a lie
Our essence, our beauty, it's all a vibe
Still we rise
The trials of the black woman and child

You know, how long must the black people suffer?
And wes a people, you know?
And then we have we own culture
We have everything, we not short of anything

The victor or the victim
The voice of oppression
The signs of the times tell me that the Lord's coming
A cry of desperation
A prayer for my bredrin
For man and women
My women and children
Yeah yeah

Black kings, black Leaders, black gold
Black queens, black love, forever we shall withhold
Black seed, black soil designed by the mother earth
Black man, black soul, don't undersell what you're worth
Black icons, black fashion, the influence on the world
Black music, black history, their erosion didn't work
Black power, black features, can't forget about the culture
Black people please remember the enemy ain't one another
Black magic
This alchemy's sponsored by my ancestors, my
Skin is power, but based on my color
They tried to say I wasn't a star, ha
How incorrect, my black is brighter than the dark, yeah
And that's a fact, motherfucker