Salaam Remi, Stephen Marley, Black Thought, Spragga Benz - Black Progress lyrics

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Black progress down pressed for too long
Black progress now let's stand up strong
Black progress won't give up the fight
Black progress for equal rights
Black progress love is what we need
Black progress for humanity, uh
If you feel me, black understands ya

Ayy, I gotta get it, gots gots to get it
I heard white privilege got cops acquitted
As if somehow violent shots not deliberate
Second class citizenships not the business
The loss of a history, a language of religion
Didn't cause my story to glory God intended
We went from Juneteenth to the 13th amеndment
Fighting to get free when thе
World they're against us
My mother's skin color was Lupita Nyong'o's
Black life
Where people tryna see where their eyes close
My thoughts like a river running
Free in the Congo
Or James Bond and Nicky G in a convo
We in a stronghold, building of France banner
Tryna take an acre or solid
Ground to stand on
They hate a liberated mind like Kofi Annan
But fear don't pump through this heart
I put my hand on
We can't be compelled like trivial objects
That'll have us deviate from the
Plan that God crest
Let's stand arm-in-arm with the
Man who's heart's next
That's power to the people of land
Time to invest

Black progress down pressed for too long
Black progress now let's stand up strong
Black progress won't give up the fight
Black progress for equal rights
Black progress love is what we need
Black progress for humanity, hey!
If you feel me, black understands ya

Yo, it's that black progress
The black constitution, I made it in effect
The words start and we don't know the rest
King Selassie I obeyed the
Right before concept
Bring the black words again
To under the darkskin
Invest in our own it's not
Good and y'all guessed
Without you all I want interest
Build our self a civilization
Run a wisdom test
Better than dem ever seen it
'cause the most high bless
Socially and economically we get strong
Pray for black youth to come
Up with a righteous plan
All the hatred chunks are out the way
Get bunked word together
Build a nation on the riches won
'Cause it said the blacks are now
At the most fun in Congress
Bet you caught between the east and west
Rastaman inna Jamaica in a different quest
Shashamane got y’all impressed

Black progress down pressed for too long
Black progress now let's stand up strong
Black progress won't give up the fight
Black progress for equal rights
Black progress love is what we need
Black progress for humanity, uh
If you feel me, black understands ya