[Jody McIntyre]
Australia is a black country. So is America. So The Superpower warn us of a black terror. It's not theft if it's yours and you take it back. Just a correction of an inaccurate fact. So I'm not afraid at the thought of immigrants. More ashamed of my quarter of English-ness. The Scots and the Irish don't want to take this. Being occupied by a state that is racist. Black history is a story of Revolution and Resistance. A salute to all our brothers from now to Maurice Bishop
[Chorus]
This is Black History
The school system made it a mystery
But it made a foundation for you and me
So we put it in our music for you to see
[Logic]
See, Cozzie, I am not a n***a, no mistake made cause that's the word the slavemaster used to call the slave. And brothers k**ing other brothers trying to get the papes, the way they move I bet Rosa Parks would turn in her grave. Think of what she stood for and how she would feel. Think of Steve Biko and think of Emmett Till and eight bars ain't enough time on the beat, but go and Google every name. Black History
[Big Ben]
Imagine Adam was as black as a [?] and his descendants built guided by stars' patterns Pyramids, with just the knowledge of the atom. They might not tell you in your cla** but that's what really happened before the kidnap, chains, rotting in the cabins. Your family tree is from a root greater than you fathom. There's real power in that blood the guns are out splashing. There is real power when the people start to take action
[Jaja Soze]
You can't hide the truth from me. You're only fooling you. My blood is of a slave, shout out to Shaka Zulu. No n***a monkey round here bruv, monkey who? I'm medicating youths just like I'm supposed to do. You should be a king, instead of trying to shot a Q. I'm speaking to my people just like Malcolm X would do and don't make who you are be a mystery. Just educate yourself and learn the black history
[Big Cakes]
This is black history, this is our history. The pyramids in Africa and stars are in symmetry. Big dog you ain't a n***a or a Nig-Nog. A black man made the first clock tick-tock. You got a watch? Big up Benjamin Banneker. My brothers got ripped and shipped up from Mother Africa. Hip-hop story lines out of rhymes tell you how a black man made clocks out of time
[Chorus]
This is Black History. The school system made it a mystery. But it made a foundation for you and me. So we put it in our music for you to see
This is Black History. The school system made it a mystery. But it made a foundation for you and me. So we put it in our music for you to see
[Genesis Elijah]
Black magic, black clouds, black hearted, black beauty, black balled on black markets. That black comedy is tragic. That black-ard did nothing they still parred him called him a "black ba*tard". Ain't nothing new black, they used to call it "black music". No black supremacy just equality. The news is Black's the new Black. I rep that Black Panther movement. Teach black history, speak black future
[MC D]
Blacks used to get sold in auctions like Christys. But to suppress the knowledge is too risky. So instead of that the Feds want to frisk me and handle me like they did the blacks in the 60s. But I'm a king like Tut and Shaka Zulu. I gain knowledge and I learn what we been through. Wisdom is more than the colour of your skin, true and when you're wise you'll realise you're a king too
[Cerose]
I am Kunta, not Toby. Free thinker, you'll never control me. Go further, Nat Turner. The ma** a got shot by his own burner. "By any means" like Malcolm. They never hear me when I talk so I'm shouting. "Back to Africa" like Garvey. "One Love" like the brother Bob Marley
[Big Frizzle]
Yeah, listen to the saga. Mamadu Diallo fathered little Aminata. Taught her in the ways of the Qu'ran no drama. Eleven years old she was taken from her mother. The hardest journey ever across that great river. Three moons in that giant canoe. Now they deliver back-to-back, blacks-on-blacks. Look how she shivers. You want to know how she grows? Well, learn more when you read The Book of Negroes
[Chorus]
This is Black History
The school system made it a mystery
But it made a foundation for you and me
So we put it in our music for you to see
[Wordplay]
Yo, I went and picked up a book. Took an hour to read through. Learnt about a party that's empowering the people. About Huey P and Bobby Seale, the Panthers. Not the media spin, I'm reading Howards. How they try discredit these guys' names
FBI, CoIntelPro, the CIA. But I never forget my man them, brothers like Fred Hampton. Died for the rights of my people, I'd like to thank them
[Haze]
f**ery and misery, black history. Legacies never told, youngun come and sit with me. Take the f*g out the zoot, bun a spliff with me. Listen to my thoughts, find that epiphany. Yeah, we are kings, genetically and spiritually. From the start to the end, I mean literally. Marcus Garvey, 2Pac and Malcolm X. Only up above, Lord knows who's coming next
[U.S.G]
The way they [?] ain't fair bro. That's why we're k**ing each other on these roads. They don't want to see our black seeds-them grow. They wanna see us living broke in a ghetto
That's why I got the rifle by the window
"By any means necessary", using Malcolm's lingo
And they try and put my flag at half-mast, labelled me a mongrel, I'm black not half caste
Us fellas here with no fear like Mandela. So they'd rather see us rot in the damn cellar
But you pricks can't harm me cause I'm black and I'm proud like Marcus Garvey
Can't leave my people in the field, nah, I love them. I lead the way like I'm Harriet Tubman
And they can't say we're fighting for something ancestors legendary, nothing above them
[Chorus]
This is our history
The school system made it a mystery
But it made a foundation for you and me
So we put it in our music for you to see
[Rodney P]
I'm a bald black brother like Khalid Muhammed. Saying hail up the dread as we roam the planet. In step with Imhotep, I follow the lead. Intellect like Menelik, I follow the creed. And I wanna believe, although I don't go church. I just carry God with me know say this is God's work. I know my livity I'm trying to achieve and the youth them have to know so that they warrior breed
[Akala]
Celebrating our history is not a favour. Correcting the myths that still persist to justify behaviour. Showing civilisation before colonisation. Some would rather say the pyramids were built by aliens, than accept that a bunch of Coons ever taught a thing ever in human history, [?] people with lighter skin. Diop set 'em straight, intelligent debate at the Cairo Symposium, still they want to negate. But we can't change a thing, if we don't want to face our very education conditions us to the Myth of Race. So you probably never learned about the Moors in Spain, Benin or Loango in 1668, Lalibela or the Citadel. Our truths they hid it well. If we knew ourselves would so many sit in a cell? When Europe has the influence in African affairs. That Africa has in Europe, we can talk about a world that's fair