[00:07.16]Sometimes
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[00:09.98]You just gotta
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[00:11.85]Go!
[00:12.23]You would never know what you could ever be
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[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 black
[00:21.18]Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery
[00:23.06]Call me crazy, or isn't he?
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[00:29.99]See I fell asleep, and I had a dream
[00:31.36]It was all black everything
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[00:33.17]Uh, and we ain't get exploited
[00:34.56]
[00:36.43]White man ain't fear it, so he did not destroy it
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[00:40.80]We ain't work for free, see, they had to employ it
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[00:43.12]Built it up together, so we equally appointed
[00:44.62]
[00:46.05]First 400 years, see, we actually enjoyed it
[00:48.37]
[00:51.24]Constitution written by W.E.B DeBois
[00:51.87]Wasn't no Reconstruction, Civil War got avoided
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[00:58.87]Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer
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[01:03.87]Extra, extra, on the newsstands
[01:04.49]Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
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[01:06.87]Malcolm Little dies as an old man
[01:08.24]Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
[01:09.62]Followed by Bill O'Reilly, who read from the Qu'ran
[01:10.43]President Bush sends condolences from Iran
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[01:11.99]Where Fox News reports live
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[01:14.74]That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize black
[01:15.55]You would never know what you could ever be
[01:16.37]
[01:17.18]If you never tried, you would never see
[01:18.68]
[01:19.50]Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
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[01:22.25]So there wasn't no slaves in our history black
[01:23.62]Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery
[01:25.55]
[01:27.06]Call me crazy, or isn't he?
[01:28.31]
[01:30.37]See I fell asleep, and I had a dream
[01:32.93]It was all black everything
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[01:35.37]Uh, and it ain't no projects
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[01:38.12]Keepin' it real's not an understood concept
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[01:40.50]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
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[01:48.31]Everybody rappin' like crack never happened
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[01:50.56]Crips never occurred, no Bloods to attack them
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[01:53.18]Matter fact, no hood to attack in
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[01:56.31]Somalia's a great place to relax in
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[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]
[02:04.31]That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
[02:06.12]
[02:07.24]Eminem fitted in, but then again
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[02:09.49]He inspired a black rapper tryna mimic him
[02:11.62]And that's what really rose up out of Michigan
[02:13.24]
[02:14.62]I signed a white rapper by the name of 50 Cent
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[02:17.06]You would never know what you could ever be
[02:18.43]
[02:19.74]If you never tried, you would never see
[02:21.18]Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave
[02:22.18]
[02:24.68]So there wasn't no slaves in our history black
[02:26.05]Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery
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[02:31.62]Call me crazy, or isn't he?
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[02:35.55]See I fell asleep, and I had a dream
[02:36.31]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?"
[02:37.12]Now we can't do nothin' 'bout the past
[02:38.55]But we can do something 'bout the future that we have
[02:39.37]We can make it fast, or we can make it last
[02:39.74]Every woman queen, and every man a king, and
[02:40.06]When those color lines come, we can't see between
[02:40.37]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
[02:43.25]So there wasn't no slaves in our history black
[02:43.62]Wasn't no slave ships, wasn't no misery
[02:43.87]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
[02:47.12]Yeah, all black everything
[02:47.30]Yeah, all black everything