Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black and own it
It's more than a moment
It's like the sun rose, took ya donut
Before we was trappin', we was trapped in
Sun in the whips kissin' our black skin
Strange fruit hanging, smell the jasmine
Roger Coletrane, listen to jazz then
Back then
We came with names like James, Fatima, Nina, King, Dreamer, Redeemer of the people
Songs for the Hebrew, original, spiritual content
You can smell it when it's God sent
We keep it movin' everyday, we the target
The young, gifted, and black on the market
'Cause of that we pay with our lives
Or either catch the charges, but yo
The goddess is the gods is
Young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Mississippi got down
Ferguson got down
Staten Island got down
Baltimore got down
America, damn
I tell you who I am
But you don't understand
Cross the waters I swim
Son and daughters of the land
Yeah we the black sheep, but you slaughterin' the lamb
You try to silence but your sirens, sounds of violence,
Do nothing but provide us
Evolution of revolution, retribution that's due us
The old ways of the US, it ain't the new us
Tell 'em we the stars, they can't shoot us
Prisoners of wars, you can no longer recruit us
Salvation is due us
Even before we came, God knew us
God knew us
Yeah, God know us
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black and own it
It's more than a moment
It's like the sun rose, took ya donut
Before we was trappin', we was trapped in
Sun in the whips kissin' our black skin
Strange fruit hanging, smell the jasmine
Roger Coletrane, listen to jazz then
Back then
We came with names like James, Fatima, Nina, King, Dreamer, Redeemer of the people
Songs for the Hebrew, original, spiritual content
You can smell it when it's God sent
We keep it movin' everyday, we the target
The young, gifted, and black on the market
'Cause of that we pay with our lives
Or either catch the charges, but yo
The goddess is the gods is
Young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Mississippi got down
Ferguson got down
Staten Island got down
Baltimore got down
America, damn
I tell you who I am
But you don't understand
Cross the waters I swim
Son and daughters of the land
Yeah we the black sheep, but you slaughterin' the lamb
You try to silence but your sirens, sounds of violence,
Do nothing but provide us
Evolution of revolution, retribution that's due us
The old ways of the US, it ain't the new us
Tell 'em we the stars, they can't shoot us
Prisoners of wars, you can no longer recruit us
Salvation is due us
Even before we came, God knew us
God knew us
Yeah, God know us
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black
Young, gifted, and black
To be young, gifted, and black