Black Girl Pain-Talib Kweli

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:22.08]Feat Jean Grae [00:52.53]I do it for the people I do it for the love [01:01.14]I do it for the poet I do it for the thug [01:04.11]This is for victory and this is for the slaughter [01:07.20]I do it for my mother I do it for my daughter [01:10.17]Promise I'll always love ya I love to kiss and hug ya [01:13.26]You and your brother should be lookin out for one another [01:16.29]I'm so blessed man y'all the reason I got up [01:19.26]Somebody put his hands on you I'm gettin locked up [01:22.41]I'm not playin that's the prayer I'm sayin for Diani [01:25.47]And if I die then she'll be protected by Amani [01:28.71]That's her bigger brother and I love the way he love her [01:31.56]She a girly girl she love to imitate her mother [01:34.53]But she a Gemini so stay on her friendly side [01:37.50]She'll put that look on you it's like somebody' friend just died [01:40.59]My pretty black princess smell sweet like that incense [01:43.56]That you buy at the bookstore supporting black business [01:46.80]Teach her what black is the fact is her parents are thorough [01:49.53]She four reading Cornrows by Camille Yarborough [01:52.77]I keep her hair braided bought her a black Barbie [01:55.80]I keep her mind free she ain't no black zombie [01:59.07]This is for Aisha this is for Kashera [02:02.01]This is for Khadijah scared to look up in the mirror [02:04.92]I see the picture clearer thru the stain on the frame [02:07.89]She got a black girl name she livin black girl pain [02:11.22]This is for Makeba and for my mamacita [02:14.04]What's really good ma I'll be your promise keeper [02:17.07]I see the picture clearer thru the stain on the frame [02:20.07]She got a black girl name she livin black girl pain [02:22.86]My mama said life would be so hard [02:25.26]Growin up days as a black girl scarred [02:28.20]In so many ways though we've come so far [02:31.68]They just know the name they don't know the pain [02:34.74]So please hold your heads up high [02:37.41]Don't be ashamed of yourself know I [02:40.26]Will carry it forth 'til the day I die [02:43.74]They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl [02:47.46]This is for Beatrice Bertha Benjamin who gave birth to [02:51.15]Tsidi Azeeda for Lavender Hill for Kyalisha [02:53.70]ALTHLONE Mitchells Plain Swazi girls I'm reppin for thee [02:56.52]Mannesburg Guguletu where you'd just be blessed to get thru [02:59.67]For beauty shinin thru like the sun at the highest noon [03:02.37]From the top of the cable car at Table Mountain I am you [03:05.73]Girls with the skyest blue of eyes and the darkest skin [03:08.49]For Cape Colored allied for realizing we're African [03:11.79]For all my cousins back home the strength of mommy's backbone [03:14.91]The length of which she went for raising sacrificing her own [03:17.94]The pain of not reflecting the range of our complexions [03:20.91]For rubber pellet scars on Auntie Elna's back I March [03:23.85]Fist raised caramel shinin in all our glory [03:26.88]For Mauritius St Helena my blood is a million stories [03:30.15]Winnie for Joan and for Edie for Norma Leslie Ndidi [03:33.00]For Auntie Betty for Melanie all the same family [03:36.27]Fiona Jo Burg complex of mixed girls [03:39.09]For surviving thru every lie they put into us now [03:42.27]The world is yours and I swear I will stand focused [03:45.06]Black girls raise up your hands the world should clap for us [03:47.73]My mama said life would be so hard [03:50.25]Growin up days as a black girl scarred [03:53.25]In so many ways though we've come so far [03:56.67]They just know the name they don't know the pain [03:59.79]So please hold your heads up high [04:02.49]Don't be ashamed of yourself know I [04:06.96]Will carry it forth 'til the day I die [04:29.37]They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl