Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything (Lyrics)

Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything


[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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[hnelgren]

nobody gets it. this isn't a racist song, its lupe showing his black pride. hes not saying blacks are better, hes just imagining a world in which racism didnt occur. yes, africans were enslaving each other. but hes trying to look at what the world would be like if there was no racism. its a great song and it has a lot of meaning. most rappers wouldnt have the guts to go out and state their opinions like this, thats why they sit and rap about the club. songs like this set lupe apart

[kanikura]

Really REALLY like this track... sounds a bit like Nujabes work (R.I.P)

[Quailox]

@yourmomftw01 It wasn't until after the theory of Social Darwinism developed that slavery became a racial construct. Before Social Darwinism slaves were simply people in debt who couldn't pay, prisoners of war, or people of conquered nations. Humans don't naturally see other races as inferior, but that way of thinking was instilled during the industrial revolution and has been cemented into the worlds psyche over time.

[iFilTech]

the beat reminds me of littlebigplanet anyone agree?

[AvellinoRH]

@ShadowKilla175 Yeh my English sucks!

[yourmomftw01]

This isn't a racist song, and he's not only talking about race, he's talking about hatred in general, "All black everything" is Lupe's way of saying we are all equal. In a human's mind we will always though believe we're above someone.

[ShadowKilla175]

@AvellinoRH guy* and his*

[AvellinoRH]

I am not black but this black kid is one of my favourite rapper! He is true in hes raps!

[DavinciBeats]

@charlesntheproducers Yea, but whites haven't been enslaved for 400 years. That's the difference. Whites were not enslaved by the blacks, it was vice versa, so obviously you can't simply look at the situation in a "vice versa" manner. That would be unfair.

This song is talking about if there was no racism, if there was no distinction between blacks and whites and if colour was not an issue.

If we simply woke up one day and saw the world as "All Black".

[FullyRed]

mos def and lupe need to collab