Robert Glasper, Big K.R.I.T., BJ The Chicago Kid, Killer Mike - Black Superhero lyrics

Yeah (Up in the sky)
(It's a bird, it's a plane)
Hmm, sound like some superhero shit
(Up in the sky) some Black superhero shit
(Up in the sky) Hmm, damn oh yeah

Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (Up in the sky)
Need a Black superhero (It's a bird)
Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (It's a plane)
Need a Black superhero

You need a nigga roll like me
Military mind stated and I keep
A gun and a degree you can label me a Huey P
Made a martyr outta Martin, outta Malcolm
Outta Medgar i refuse to let these dirty
Devils make my Gullah beggar
Fuck a hero see, oh, I will go make heed, oh
For my people
Give me liberty or death, that is my credo
Not my ego
Dressed in a tuxedo, enter party, alter ego
Killed your need of it
Gazebo did it for the people
Love what motivated
I did not do it for hatred
But I truly hate the devil
I cannot debate or fake it
I was asked a question and
I asked about it hard if I was facing death
Then I could ask one thing of God
I would ask for every nigga to
Be free here and abroad
And to be rightfully celebrated as
A child of God
And to be rightfully celebrated as
A child of God (As a child of God)

Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (It's a plane)
Need a Black superhero
Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (Up in the sky)
Need a Black superhero

Our own kind took Nip' from us
Money still read, "In God we trust"
Truthfully we envy, so why we so envious?
And why our own kind envy us?
Pac said it's hard
But we gotta keep our head up
Goin' even though we know we fed up
It's hella tension 'cause we ain't careful
Where we all pay attention
I need all my real soldiers on the front line
Fighting for the right shit just one time
So unstoppable together at the same time
With the same mind
Yeah, we wanna be high and
Always above what's beneath us, so

Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)
Need a Black superhero
(It's a bird, it's a plane)
Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)
Need a Black superhero

I'm talking bulletproof kinda suit
Reflect the struggle that they
Put us through, with a shrimp
To fight the power like Chuck D'll do
With the insight to be equal
Know the sky need it
A voice that finds reason
To multiply people in the
Streets full of calls
Marching on Washington might as well
Be walking through walls
Type of superhero show up with
Ain't no one to call
That'll shield you from them shields
That been killing us all
High beam for eye to peep
The villains and the door
Power of resolution 'fore a
War was even started
The knowledge to build and
Grow where they live
And take care of the kids and the older folk
The queens 'cause they need it most
Politic with the kings, a body cannot a grow
True PTSD, 'cause mental health ain't a joke
Feed the hungry, and though
Everyone would know everywhere we go

Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)
Need a Black superhero
Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (Up in the sky)
Need a Black superhero

It's gon' take one of us to save us
It's gon' take love and a lot of trust
We just took it, have faith and know that
Long as you got mine, I got your back, I know
It's gon' take one of us to save us
It's gon' take love and a lot of trust
We just took it, have faith and know that
Long as you got mine, I got your back, I know
(Know that)

Every block, every hood, every city
Every ghetto (It's a plane)
Need a Black superhero
(Need a Black superhero)

You know, just
Just the idea of how Black men in
This culture and society get framed
And how everything possible is
Actually designed to
Actually diminish what your true power is
Right? And so
When you speak about the
Superhero-ness of our communities
Every ghetto, every block
Every street corner
Really, all of those men are God
They're just living in a reality
That tears them down
And makes them feels as though they're
Not what they actually are
'Cause they know it when they
Look in the mirror the female take on it
You know, and on some levels
It's a little more heartbreaking, right?
Because, like
We've created this reality that
Walks away from us being clear of all the
Fact that the Black woman is actually
The goddess on this planet (Absolutely)
The mitochondrial information that's read was
To create every type of
Man that exists on this planet
Is derivative of hers (Absolutely)
Right? So
We actually have to sit there figuring out
Which being on this planet
Actually constitutes God? And that term
If we're framing it in that way
The actual living God on this planet
The only direction you can point in is
The direction of the Black woman
First like, us as an extension
Of her, but firstly her, right?
Because none of it exists without her