Shout it out loud
Black and proud!
Shout it out loud
Black and proud!

[Spoken]
Michael Jackson say him have a skin condition
[?] dunno if a true
I and I know if he have one, mi have one, too
Watch dis

[Chorus]
You nuh haffi bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black
Don't bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black

Me have a skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction
Me have a skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction
I'm getting blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Black, black, black like mi [?]
I get blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Macka B well proud a' that

[Verse 1]
You could be brown like a chocolate
Or black like tar
Believe in yourself and you must get far
Your colour a' your colour and
That's who you are
And every n***a can be a
Superstar

You woulda never ever see me
Change mi colour
Not fi all the tea in the whole a' China
And not fi all the mango inna Jamaica
Not fi the oil inna South Africa

Mi love mi black skin
Love mi black life
Love mi black pickneys
Love mi black wife
Love mi thick lips
Love mi flat nose
I would never ever part with those
Black from without
Black from within
Black is the colour of the African skin
All of the people who are proud to be black
Put your hand inna the air and lick two shot

[Chorus]
You nuh haffi bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black
Don't bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black

Me have a skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction
Skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction

I'm getting blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Black, black, black like mi [?]
I get blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Macka B well proud a' that
[Verse 2]
When mi say black mi nuh just mean
The colour of the skin
Mi say black without and
Black within
Black inna your mind
Black inna your thinkin'
Blackness awareness a' whe' mi talkin'

Don't forget your roots
Don't forget your origin
Your pride and your dignity
They come from within
With God inna your heart
You surely must win
If you bleach fi your skin
You bow to the system

[Chorus]
Don't bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black
Don't bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black

Me have a skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction
Skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction

I'm getting blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Black, black, black like mi [?]
I get blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Macka B well proud a' that

[Verse 3]
Black to the max
Right round the crop
Everyday week mi haffi shop
Inna some black shop
Black to the max
In a dumplin' shop
If a' mi alone McDonald's would flop
Black to the max
Jah know mi nah stop
Mi wan' more black people reach to the top
Black to the max
And mi proud a' di fact
From the bottom of mi shoes
To the top of mi hat

Shout it out loud
Black and proud!
Shout it out loud
Black and proud!
Shout it out loud
Black and proud!
Shout it out loud
Black and proud!

[Chorus]
Say you nuh haffi bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black
Don't bleach
To reach to the top
Go up there even if your black black black

Me have a skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction
Skin condition
Like Michael Jackson
But fi me in the opposite direction

I'm getting blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Black, black, black like mi [?]
I get blacker
Everyday mi getting more black
Macka B well proud a' that

[Verse 4]
You could be brown like a chocolate
Or black like tar
Believe in yourself and you must get far
Your colour a' your colour and
That's who you are
And every n***a can be a
Superstar

You woulda never ever see me
Change mi colour
Not fi all the tea in the whole a' China