Proud to Be Black (Explicit)-Run-D.M.C.

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[00:00.00]Proud to Be Black (Explicit) - RUN DMC
[00:00.80]You know I'm proud to be black y'all
[00:02.68]And that's a fact y'all
[00:04.12]And if you try to take what's mine
[00:05.66]I take it back y'all - it's like that
[00:10.32]Licki-licki-licki-licki-licki-licki-licki-licki-
[00:13.56]Listen party people here's a serious song
[00:15.61]It's right not wrong I should say right on
[00:18.14]I gotta tell you somethin
[00:19.61]That you all should know
[00:20.87]It's not a mystery it's history and here's how it go
[00:23.91]Now Hariett Tubman was born a slave
[00:26.62]She was a tiny black woman when she was raised
[00:29.46]She was livin to be givin
[00:30.85]There's a lot that she gave
[00:32.22]There's not a slave in this day and age
[00:34.39]I'm proud to be
[00:35.44]Black god damn I'm tired my man
[00:38.00]Don't worry bout what color I am
[00:39.96]Because I'll show you how ill this man can act
[00:43.56]It could never be fiction cause it is all fact
[00:46.36]And if you get in my way I will not turn back
[00:49.12]I'm proud of my name my name is Darryl Mack
[00:52.17]I'm black and I'm proud and I'll say it out loud
[00:55.05]I'll share my story with the whole crowd AUUUGHH
[01:02.66]You know I'm proud to be black y'all
[01:04.34]And that's a fact y'all
[01:05.89]And if you try to take what's mine
[01:07.91]I take it back y'all - it's like that
[01:15.61]DJ Run and I run these things
[01:17.73]You can hear it loud and clear
[01:19.04]Like when the schoolbell rings
[01:20.23]Like Martin Luther King I will do my thing
[01:23.01]I'll say it in a rap cause I do not sing
[01:26.06]D M C the man that's causin the beef
[01:28.80]I got a message for the world
[01:30.22]So listen up it's brief
[01:31.74]Like Malcolm X said I won't turn the right cheek
[01:34.43]Got the strength to go the length
[01:35.94] if you wanna start beef
[01:37.25]Start beef
[01:42.34]You know I'm proud to be black y'all
[01:43.83]And real brave y'all
[01:45.62]And motherf**ker I could never be a slave y'all
[01:48.27]So take that
[01:55.00]We're gonna tell ya somethin
[01:55.94]Put your mind in a swirl
[01:57.40]God bless the next
[01:58.31]Baby that comes in this world
[01:59.98]The world's full of hate discrimination and sin
[02:02.48]People judgin other people by the color of skin
[02:05.49]I'll attack this matter in my own way
[02:08.47]Man I ain't no slave
[02:09.87]I ain't reelin no hay
[02:11.06]Written a deposition in any condition
[02:14.10]Don't get in my way cause I'm full of ambition
[02:16.96]I'm proud to be black (and I ain't takin no crap)
[02:19.73]I'm fresh out the pack
[02:21.12](and I'm proud to be black)
[02:22.47]SO TAKE THAT
[02:28.18]There was a man - an inventor -
[02:29.78]Who invented so well
[02:31.15]He invented a fortune - for a man named Bell
[02:33.91]George Washington Carver
[02:35.34]Made the peanut great
[02:36.50]Showed any man with a mind could create
[02:39.05]You read about Malcolm X -
[02:41.57]In the history text
[02:42.43]Jesse Owens broke records Ali broke necks
[02:45.17]What's wrong with ya man
[02:46.54]How can you be so dumb
[02:47.86]LIKE DR KING SAID WE SHALL OVERCOME