Jean Grae - Black Is The Color lyrics

[Intro] Black is the color [Verse 1] This is for my Black soldiers, mack holders, strapped army greens Snapped back, blast automatics, spraying body ? Rap addicts, mathematics study how they map the projects ? targets ? supermarkets ? artists covered with material riches This on surface on the depth of the soul of the sickness Biggest media murder is most ? Most heard ? toast burning Smartest kids in special ed learning E.S.L., the U.S. fails the children, f** 'em We excel then we copy, become the same corrupted Bullets stuck in back wounds deep with trees Raped, foot chopped, lynched, follow North Star free [Hook x2] Black ? ?falling? And we can't find a way home, even though Black children go back to ?weeping? Still we can't see the end of the road [Verse 2] See, we're experimental science, disease blamed The African k**er bees, to AIDS, and man-made population control game Villages dosed like ? smallpox k**ing most Native Americans' ? ? birth of the seven deadly cemeteries flooded with bloody violence from ugly money greed and gluttony schemes Like ? and raping them clean The face of the devil is separatism, post-racism Willie Lynch ? division post-religion More victims than the Holocaust, a mental prison for children and women Men like dark prison broken minds spark the hate forgiving Jesus bring us all to the ? No reparations ever make up for destroying a people We'll never be equal, powers get as high as a seagull ? scamming on your weakness is evil [Hook x2] [Verse 3] Mothers and daughters fed from the slave master's whip And now the N.R.A.'ll save the day, legal guns, loaded clips Shanty towns ? sweatshops daily But we're still choosing ignorance, ain't we And little Jamie complaining because he wanna get an X-Box for Christmas ? starve ? biscuits, point of ages Proving the American ghetto's still an oasis Place where the life imitates art Imitating life, White kids imitating dark now Spark blunts at night, 'til maybe something can fly Above the line of buildings reaching stars and light up the sky I feel you [Hook x2]