[Sampled intro]
Black is beautiful, Free Huey!
Set our water free, Free Huey!
Black is beautiful...

[Verse 1]
I'm from empty ugly, pretty much which shit is dust
You be digusted what kids discuss when you live as such
Privilege coveted, in business and government never a bit o' trust
While we was cravin' rations, they paid assassins, made n***as hush
The Moores, Hamptons, Malcolms, Medgars and the Martins
They was focussin' the scope soon as the lecturin' was startin'
Hawkin' a dull youth, the whole truth, you definitely departin'
You invest in leave a mark, they invested in a marksman
Rare breed, four hundred year lead
Sheer greed, flauntin' their glee, only want what they see
When over here need
Indeed, the bias, never doin' right by us
Left much distaste, that bitter stay
And how they do us to this day
I say fuck this place...

But it's my only home
's'all I've known

[Verse 2]
Enemy grounds, hate groups sending me rounds
General Lee frowns, then enter the hounds
My energy wound, no friend to be found
There's one of me up, ten of me down
We either dead or we tend to be bound
Cos my indentity brown the penalties drown
If I survive this envious town, just send me the crown
For those not in REM, this how the remedy sound
Damned with the pen (?), payin' for the ends since the beginnin'
Raise a torch or the baby's lost, if we ain't care for the women
My opinion: it ain't sinnin', it's crabs tryna manage a barrel
How we get here when my great-great-great grands was a pharoah?
Resisting these conditions is in the strands of my marrow
[?] wasn't cool playin' the fool like the man in the tarot
Try and bring light despite knowin' death stands in the shadow
So from now on thou song is just plans for a battle
Mac depraved and raised in a gruesome hood
Wake up to the nightmare, light prayer - hope it do some good
First thought is how to fill a pocket
Sum'in please present itself before we buildin' on a killer topic
I'm starvin', try an' bite, only Iron Mike came through philanthropic
Lot came home and profit, movin like he still in spar-fit
Bundles of snow, [?] numbers that grow
Gave a pound, said "The only Ls worth takin' come with a bow"
You what's expected, been infected, the cold sick town
So crazed that most days you wanna burn this whole shit down
But it's my only home
It's all I've ever known
's my only home
's'all I've ever known

[Sampled monologue]
But in the neighbourhoods many were moved by the struggle of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville community