1 [Hook]
2 You would never know
3 If you could ever be
4 If you never try
5 You would never see
6 Stayed in Africa
7 We ain’t never leave
8 So there were no slaves in our history
9 Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he
10 See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
11 [Verse 1]
12 Uh, and we ain’t get exploited
13 White man ain’t feared so he did not destroy it
14 We ain’t work for free, see they had to employ it
15 Built it up together so we equally appointed
16 First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it
17 Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois
18 Were no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided
19 Little black Sambo grows up to be a lawyer
20 Extra extra on the news stands
21 Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
22 Malcolm Little dies as a old man
23 Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
24 Followed by Bill O’Reilly who read from the Quran
25 President Bush sends condolences from Iran
26 Where FOX News reports live
27 That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize
28 [Hook]
29 You would never know
30 If you could ever be
31 If you never try
32 You would never see
33 Stayed in Africa
34 We ain’t never leave
35 So there were no slaves in our history
36 Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he
37 See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
38 [Verse 2]
39 Uh, and it ain’t no projects
40 Keepin it real is not an understood concept
41 Yea, complexion’s not a contest
42 Cause racism has no context
43 Hip hop ain’t got a section called conscious
44 Everybody rappin’ like crack never happened
45 Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them
46 Matter of fact no hood to attack in
47 Somalia is a great place to relax in
48 Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
49 The Rat Pack was cool group of black men
50 That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
51 Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
52 And that’s what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent, ha!
53 [Hook]
54 You would never know
55 If you could ever be
56 If you never try
57 You would never see
58 Stayed in Africa
59 We ain’t never leave
60 So there were no slaves in our history
61 Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he
62 See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything
63 [Verse 3]
64 Uh, and I know it’s just a fantasy
65 I cordially invite you to ask why can’t it be?
66 Now we can do nothing bout the past
67 But we can do something about the future that we have
68 We can make fast or we can make it last
69 Every woman Queenin’ and every man a Kingin’
70 When those color lines come we can’t see between
71 We just close our eyes ’til it’s all black every-THING!
72 [Hook]
73 You would never know
74 If you could ever be
75 If you never try
76 You would never see
77 Stayed in Africa
78 We ain’t never leave
79 So there were no slaves in our history
80 Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he
81 See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything