Blak Iz Blak Lyrics - Mos Def

[Hard Black] 

Peep the math 

Mau Mau be about land and freedom 

Reperation and apologies, for Africa to America oddesseys 

Guerilla-type tactics on them socialistic fallacies 

It be about, the devestations of the social doministic thought 

Keep a brown man down sport 

They wantin to keep our (?) set nigga 

The way Franz Fanon put it, you lucky I ain't "wretched" yet 

[Big Black - Mos Def] 

Yo, you fucked up in the game now 

It's Big Black, Mr. Chairman of the Mau Mau 

I hear the world in all-black surround sound 

Barricaded so you can't move around now 

Doin this for my clan that ain't around now 

Buried six feet deep beneath the ground now 

My loud sound pound down make the earth crush in and bow down 

There's faultlines in the ground now - shake 'em down 

[Smooth Black - Charli Baltimore] 

Black Chevy, Mau Maus, gats ready 

BLAOW BLAOW, black deadly, femme fatale 

Underground, rats in this rat race 

and black race cats sell out to the blackface 

and rag grin, laugh not my light skin 

be S-M-O-O-T-H from pH 

UHH, backseat strappin in 

cause I'm the only bitch with Big Black and them 

[Chorus] 

Who the crew? M-A-you, M-A-you, gun ready 

Bout to attack the track when BLAK IZ BLAK 

Well how black? BLAK HEART, BLAK MIND, BLAK SOUL 

Mau Maus (HOOTIE HOO!) We was born to roll! 

Who the crew? M-A-you, M-A-you, aim fire 

Bout to attack the track when BLAK IZ BLAK 

How black? BLAK WOMB TIL WE REACH THE BLACK HEARSE 

What's black? - SHADE OF THE UNIVERSE 

[Mo Black - Canibus] 

Yo, yo 

Yo when Mo Black start to black out bitches pass out 

Stick my black dick in they mouth and dig they back out 

Black monk like Thesalonius, the government got a black phobia 

That's why they tap my black Nokia 

Black fathers, black mothers, black brothers 

handcuffed to each other, goin upstate in black buses 

Black thugs, wrap drugs in backwoods 

Smoke til they got black tongues, black lips and black lungs 

Blak iz blak, wack MC's get smacked 

Forced to go home and dial 1-800-I-CAN'T-RAP 

[1/16th Black - MC Serch] 

Aiyyo who that? Yo right there; blue eyes, and black hair 

Kill 'em with a rhyme, or the bottom of my Nike Airs 

So quick son pick one, you don't want me to finish 

or I'll quickly take you to 1950 and do you like the British 

Head on a spear, contusions ear to ear 

For Africa Maxima, I'ma drive you out of here 

Mr. 1/16th, born to kill your self esteem 

Born from part devil, part cracker from Queens 

Knowledge that we drop, you don't even build with 

That's like me winnin a rap Grammy, givin it to Lyn(?) Smith 

[Chorus] 

[Jo Black] 

Yo, yo 

Everything black is wack and shit 

Blackheads, blackmail, black cats and shit 

Funerals, niggaz gotta wear black and shit 

Black cars, black clothes on they backs and shit 

Blackballed, if we don't kiss they ass and shit 

Blacklisted see ya nigga, and you're gone that's it 

White bitches, they wanna be black and shit 

Tan lotion on they white flat ass and shit 

[Double Black] 

Aiyyo all the Mau Maus gather up and let's attack 

because they're tryin to fuck with our images 

and I think that shit is crazy wack 

And as a matter of fact, they want us niggaz 

to smile and laugh - I guess they never seen a bloodbath 

Brothers and sisters are dyin, babies are bein taken out 

So what the fuck they want me to rap about? 

About how happy I am, to be livin in the slum 

where little shorties walk around totin big guns 

[Chorus] 

Hard Black droppin science, born to roll 

Mau Maus droppin science, born to roll 

Hard Black droppin science, born to roll 

Mau Maus droppin science, born to roll 

[Hard Black] 

Nigga, nigga you think these rhymes? 

You think they fuckin rhymes? This this this this PHILOSOPHY 

This the end of redneck-ass catastrophes 

Puttin a plunger in the, ass of my history! 

Forty-one shots of reality for the generations to come after me! 

As it be, hell hath no FURY like a black man scorned 

Nigga BLAK IZ BLAK, you've officially been warned 

Nigga - you've officially been warned 

You hear me? You've you you've OFFICIALLY BEEN WARNED 

You've been TOLD nigga, you've been fuckin OFFICIALLY been warned 

This is for your dome, straight up 

MAU MAU STYLE, BACK FROM THE FOREST KNAHMEAN? 

You've OFFICIALLY been told how it's gon' come down 

End of millineium sytle 

You've officially been told how it's gon' be, knahmean? 

Hard Black, Mau Mau 

Smooth Black, Mau Mau 

Big Black, Mau Mau 

1/16th Black, Mau Mau 

Jo Black, Mo Black, Double Black.