All Black Everything-Lupe Fiasco

[ti:All Black Everything] [ar:Lupe Fiasco] [al:Lasers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]All Black Everything - Lupe Fiasco [00:07.16]Sometimes [00:07.35] [00:09.97]You just gotta [00:10.60] [00:11.85]Go [00:12.22]You would never know what you could ever be [00:13.41] [00:16.74]If you never tried you would never see [00:17.99]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave [00:19.61]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything ) [00:21.18]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery [00:23.05]Call me crazy or isn't he [00:24.80] [00:29.99]See I fell asleep and I had a dream [00:31.36]It was all black everything [00:32.36] [00:33.17]Uh and we ain't get exploited [00:34.55] [00:36.43]White man ain't fear it so he did not destroy it [00:38.36] [00:40.80]We ain't work for free see they had to employ it [00:42.42] [00:43.11]Built it up together so we equally appointed [00:44.61] [00:46.05]First 400 years see we actually enjoyed it [00:48.36] [00:51.24]Constitution written by W E B DeBois [00:51.86]Wasn't no Reconstruction Civil War got avoided [00:55.55] [00:58.86]Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer [01:00.36] [01:03.87]Extra extra on the newsstands [01:04.49]Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan [01:05.86] [01:06.86]Malcolm Little dies as an old man [01:08.24]Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him [01:09.61]Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Qu'ran [01:10.43]President Bush sends condolences from Iran [01:11.12] [01:11.99]Where Fox News reports live [01:13.05] [01:14.74]That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize (All black everything ) [01:15.55]You would never know what you could ever be [01:16.36] [01:17.17]If you never tried you would never see [01:18.68] [01:19.49]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave [01:20.99] [01:22.24]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything ) [01:23.61]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery [01:25.55] [01:27.05]Call me crazy or isn't he [01:28.30] [01:30.36]See I fell asleep and I had a dream [01:32.92]It was all black everything [01:34.24] [01:35.37]Uh and it ain't no projects [01:36.93] [01:38.12]Keepin' it real's not an understood concept [01:39.11] [01:40.49]Yeah complexion's not a contest [01:41.55] [01:42.99]'Cause racism has no context [01:44.24] [01:45.61]Hip-hop ain't got a section called conscious [01:47.24] [01:48.30]Everybody rappin' like crack never happened [01:49.49] [01:50.55]Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them [01:52.68] [01:53.18]Matter fact no hood to attack in [01:55.30] [01:56.30]Somalia's a great place to relax in [01:57.80] [01:58.74]Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin [02:00.43] [02:01.18]The Rat Pack was a cool group of black men [02:02.74] [02:04.30]That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons [02:06.11] [02:07.24]Eminem fitted in but then again [02:08.30] [02:09.49]He inspired a black rapper tryna mimic him [02:11.61]And that's what really rose up out of Michigan [02:13.24] [02:14.61]I signed a white rapper by the name of 50 Cent [02:15.99] [02:17.05]You would never know what you could ever be [02:18.42] [02:19.74]If you never tried you would never see [02:21.17]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave [02:22.18] [02:24.68]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything ) [02:26.05]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery [02:27.86] [02:31.62]Call me crazy or isn't he [02:33.05] [02:35.55]See I fell asleep and I had a dream [02:36.30]It was all black everything [02:36.49]Uh and I know this just a fantasy [02:36.80]I cordially invite you to ask "Why can't it be " [02:37.11]Now we can't do nothin' 'bout the past [02:38.55]But we can do something 'bout the future that we have [02:39.36]We can make it fast or we can make it last [02:39.74]Every woman queen and every man a king and [02:40.05]When those color lines come we can't see between [02:40.36]We just close our eyes 'til it's all black everything [02:40.74]You would never know what you could ever be [02:42.24]If you never tried you would never see [02:42.99]Stayed in Africa we ain't never leave [02:43.24]So there wasn't no slaves in our history (All black everything ) [02:43.62]Wasn't no slave ships wasn't no misery [02:43.86]Call me crazy or isn't he [02:45.18]See I fell asleep and I had a dream [02:45.99]It was all black everything [02:47.05]All black everything [02:47.11]Yeah all black everything [02:47.30]Yeah all black everything