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[00:22.080]Feat Jean Grae
[00:52.530]I do it for the people I do it for the love
[01:01.140]I do it for the poet I do it for the thug
[01:04.110]This is for victory and this is for the slaughter
[01:07.200]I do it for my mother I do it for my daughter
[01:10.170]Promise I'll always love ya I love to kiss and hug ya
[01:13.260]You and your brother should be lookin out for one another
[01:16.290]I'm so blessed man y'all the reason I got up
[01:19.260]Somebody put his hands on you I'm gettin locked up
[01:22.410]I'm not playin that's the prayer I'm sayin for Diani
[01:25.470]And if I die then she'll be protected by Amani
[01:28.710]That's her bigger brother and I love the way he love her
[01:31.560]She a girly girl she love to imitate her mother
[01:34.530]But she a Gemini so stay on her friendly side
[01:37.500]She'll put that look on you it's like somebody' friend just died
[01:40.590]My pretty black princess smell sweet like that incense
[01:43.560]That you buy at the bookstore supporting black business
[01:46.800]Teach her what black is the fact is her parents are thorough
[01:49.530]She four reading Cornrows by Camille Yarborough
[01:52.770]I keep her hair braided bought her a black Barbie
[01:55.800]I keep her mind free she ain't no black zombie
[01:59.070]This is for Aisha this is for Kashera
[02:02.010]This is for Khadijah scared to look up in the mirror
[02:04.920]I see the picture clearer thru the stain on the frame
[02:07.890]She got a black girl name she livin black girl pain
[02:11.220]This is for Makeba and for my mamacita
[02:14.040]What's really good ma I'll be your promise keeper
[02:17.070]I see the picture clearer thru the stain on the frame
[02:20.070]She got a black girl name she livin black girl pain
[02:22.860]My mama said life would be so hard
[02:25.260]Growin up days as a black girl scarred
[02:28.200]In so many ways though we've come so far
[02:31.680]They just know the name they don't know the pain
[02:34.740]So please hold your heads up high
[02:37.410]Don't be ashamed of yourself know I
[02:40.260]Will carry it forth 'til the day I die
[02:43.740]They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl
[02:47.460]This is for Beatrice Bertha Benjamin who gave birth to
[02:51.150]Tsidi Azeeda for Lavender Hill for Kyalisha
[02:53.700]ALTHLONE Mitchells Plain Swazi girls I'm reppin for thee
[02:56.520]Mannesburg Guguletu where you'd just be blessed to get thru
[02:59.670]For beauty shinin thru like the sun at the highest noon
[03:02.370]From the top of the cable car at Table Mountain I am you
[03:05.730]Girls with the skyest blue of eyes and the darkest skin
[03:08.490]For Cape Colored allied for realizing we're African
[03:11.790]For all my cousins back home the strength of mommy's backbone
[03:14.910]The length of which she went for raising sacrificing her own
[03:17.940]The pain of not reflecting the range of our complexions
[03:20.910]For rubber pellet scars on Auntie Elna's back I March
[03:23.850]Fist raised caramel shinin in all our glory
[03:26.880]For Mauritius St Helena my blood is a million stories
[03:30.150]Winnie for Joan and for Edie for Norma Leslie Ndidi
[03:33.000]For Auntie Betty for Melanie all the same family
[03:36.270]Fiona Jo Burg complex of mixed girls
[03:39.090]For surviving thru every lie they put into us now
[03:42.270]The world is yours and I swear I will stand focused
[03:45.060]Black girls raise up your hands the world should clap for us
[03:47.730]My mama said life would be so hard
[03:50.250]Growin up days as a black girl scarred
[03:53.250]In so many ways though we've come so far
[03:56.670]They just know the name they don't know the pain
[03:59.790]So please hold your heads up high
[04:02.490]Don't be ashamed of yourself know I
[04:06.960]Will carry it forth 'til the day I die
[04:29.370]They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl