Proud - Fashawn

Hey what up?

Hey what up?

Hey what up?

Hey what up?

Hey what up?

Hey what up?

Hey what up?

Hey what up?

What about the life of us Marcus Garvey we are no Martins

Wouldn’t have your light, wasn’t for my darkness

Blacker than the panther

On the jacket of Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale

Few of us rise still

We built this country on the blood and sweat

Teardrops and pick cotton and more we stepped

Mama Harriet Tubman was a woman so real

Only woman in history with her face on the bill

Besides Hillary Clinton who will speak of America?

Original man, that they freed us in Syria

I put that on the solar net

Turn up the memory that’s ajournin'

And others no longer with us I’m admittin'

I’m black and I’m proud

Say it loud, say it loud

I’m black and I’m proud

Say it loud, say it loud

Doctor Clarence 13X was a hero to me

Felt like a five-percenter was the thing to be

In the wild, wild West I feel crazily East

And they on the speakers, MJs on my feet

Before Mike and Mayweather came Mohammed Ali

Only difference between 'em, he bit it with dignity

Doctor Carter G. Woodson fathered black history

Doctor Vivien Thomas, the first heart surgery

Why me?

Tall Ray used to be

Stokely Carmicheal, bag, Miriam Makeba

Definitely was a leader in his own right, Makeba was a diva

In her own light before, y’all takin' Mary Jay Ashansi

Brandi, Keyshia Cole, Lauren Hill if we speakin' soul

I fell in love with TLC when I was three years old

Angela Davis belled out by the brethren

It was about community, wasn’t about complexion

Alaysha in from far, they was writin' for our law

Pictures of Bob Marley and Selassie on my wall

To the day they freed Maria, Max B and Bobby Shmurda

We all all proud, it been hit since the sack

Black and I’m proud

Say it loud, say it loud

I’m black and I’m proud

Say it loud, say it loud