This song by Lupe Fiasco connects to racism because he sings about how the world would've been without racism and how the world would be a better place.
Lupe Fiasco – All Black Everything Lyrics
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 1]
Uh, and we ain’t get exploited
White man ain’t
feared so he did not destroy it
We ain’t work for free, see they had to
employ it
Built it up together so we equally appointed
First 400 years,
see we actually enjoyed it
Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois
Were
no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided
Little black Sambo grows up to be
a lawyer
Extra extra on the news stands
Black woman voted head of Ku Klux
Klan
Malcolm Little dies as a old man
Martin Luther King read the eulogy
for him
Followed by Bill O’Reilly who read from the Quran
President Bush
sends condolences from Iran
Where FOX News reports live
That Ahmadinejad
wins Mandela peace prize
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black
everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 2]
Uh, and it ain’t no projects
Keepin it real is
not an understood concept
Yea, complexion’s not a contest
Cause racism has
no context
Hip hop ain’t got a section called conscious
Everybody rappin’
like crack never happened
Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack
them
Matter of fact no hood to attack in
Somalia is a great place to relax
in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The Rat Pack was cool group
of black men
That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
Eminem
fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
And
that’s what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper by the
name of 50 Cent, ha!
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black
everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 3]
Uh, and I know it’s just a fantasy
I cordially
invite you to ask why can’t it be?
Now we can do nothing bout the past
But
we can do something about the future that we have
We can make fast or we can
make it last
Every woman Queenin’ and every man a Kingin’
When those
color lines come we can’t see between
We just close our eyes ’til it’s all
black every-THING!
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black
everything
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[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 1]
Uh, and we ain’t get exploited
White man ain’t
feared so he did not destroy it
We ain’t work for free, see they had to
employ it
Built it up together so we equally appointed
First 400 years,
see we actually enjoyed it
Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois
Were
no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided
Little black Sambo grows up to be
a lawyer
Extra extra on the news stands
Black woman voted head of Ku Klux
Klan
Malcolm Little dies as a old man
Martin Luther King read the eulogy
for him
Followed by Bill O’Reilly who read from the Quran
President Bush
sends condolences from Iran
Where FOX News reports live
That Ahmadinejad
wins Mandela peace prize
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black
everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 2]
Uh, and it ain’t no projects
Keepin it real is
not an understood concept
Yea, complexion’s not a contest
Cause racism has
no context
Hip hop ain’t got a section called conscious
Everybody rappin’
like crack never happened
Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack
them
Matter of fact no hood to attack in
Somalia is a great place to relax
in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The Rat Pack was cool group
of black men
That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
Eminem
fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
And
that’s what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper by the
name of 50 Cent, ha!
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black
everything
[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 3]
Uh, and I know it’s just a fantasy
I cordially
invite you to ask why can’t it be?
Now we can do nothing bout the past
But
we can do something about the future that we have
We can make fast or we can
make it last
Every woman Queenin’ and every man a Kingin’
When those
color lines come we can’t see between
We just close our eyes ’til it’s all
black every-THING!
[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never
try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain’t never leave
So
there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call
me crazy, or isn’t he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black
everything
Read more: http://www.killerhiphop.com/lupe-fiasco-all-black-everything-lyrics/#ixzz28Rz22yrw
Hitme124. "Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything (w/ Lyrics)." YouTube.
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