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Black Girl Pain
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Talib Kweli
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I do it for the people, I do it for the love
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I do it for the poet, I do it for the thug
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This is for victory, and this is for the slaughter
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I do it for my mother, I do it for my daughter
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Promise I'll always love ya, I love to kiss and hug ya
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You and your brother should be lookin' out for one another
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I'm so blessed, man, y'all the reason I got up
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Somebody put his hands on you I'm gettin' locked up
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I'm not playin, that's the prayer I'm sayin' for Diani
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And if I die then she'll be protected by Amani
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That's her bigger brother and I love the way he love her
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She a girly-girl, she love to imitate her mother
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But she a Gemini, so stay on her friendly side
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She'll put that look on you, it's like somebody' friend just died
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My pretty black princess smell sweet like that incense
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That you buy at the bookstore supporting black business
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Teach her what black is; the fact is her parents are thorough
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She four reading Cornrows by Camille Yarborough
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I keep her hair braided, bought her a black Barbie
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I keep her mind free; she ain't no black zombie
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This is for Aisha, this is for Kashera
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This is for Khadijah scared to look up in the mirror
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I see the picture clearer through the stain on the frame
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She got a black girl name, she livin' black girl pain
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This is for Makeba, and for my mamacita
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What's really good, ma? I'll be your promise-keeper
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I see the picture clearer through the stain on the frame
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She got a black girl name, she livin' black girl pain
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My mama said life would be so hard
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Growin' up days as a black girl scarred
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In so many ways though we've come so far
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They just know the name they don't know the pain
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So please hold your heads up high
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Don't be ashamed of yourself know I
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Will carry it forth til the day I die
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They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl
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This is for Beatrice Bertha Benjamin who gave birth to
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Tsidi Azeeda for Lavender Hill for Kyalisha
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ALTHLONE, Mitchells Plain, Swazi girls I'm reppin' for thee
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Mannesburg, Guguletu where you'd just be blessed to get through
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For beauty shinin through like the sun at the highest noon
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From the top of the cable car at Table Mountain; I am you
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Girls with the skyest blue of eyes and the darkest skin
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For Cape Colored allied for realizing we're African
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For all my cousins back home, the strength of mommy's backbone
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The length of which she went for raising, sacrificing her own
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The pain of not reflecting the range of our complexions
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For rubber pellet scars on Auntie Elna's back I march
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Fist raised caramel shinin in all our glory
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For Mauritius, St, Helena; my blood is a million stories
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Winnie for Joan and for Edie, for Norma, Leslie, Ndidi
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For Auntie Betty, for Melanie; all the same family
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Fiona, Jo Burg, complex of mixed girls
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For surviving through every lie they put into us now
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The world is yours and I swear I will stand focused
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Black girls, raise up your hands; the world should clap for us
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My mama said life would be so hard
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Growin' up days as a black girl scarred
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In so many ways though we've come so far
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They just know the name they don't know the pain
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So please hold your heads up high
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Don't be ashamed of yourself know I
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Will carry it forth til the day I die
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They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl
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