Against the canvas of the Appears a curious celestial Called Star, but what is it?
people unite and let's all get down We got to have what? We got to that love
What is the Star? Is it the cat with the black shades, the black Is it shining from very far, to where you It is and different and distant Fresher than an
Black, my family thick, like they're molasses Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the Black is the color of my true hair are bright, shining, hot balls of air
Black like my baby stare Black the veil that the muslimina wear Black like the planet that they fear, why they Black like the ship that later brought us here Black like the cheeks that are for tears That leave black faces well traveled years Black like assassin cross Blacker my granddaddy armchair He never really got no time to chill Cause life is warfare, warfare
on the front lines, and blacks is all there Black the perception of who, on welfare Black like faces at the of the well been there before To bring the and heat it up like "la cocina" Make without imagine happen but I'm just a dreamer I love rockin like John Coltrane love Naema
Like the student love the Like the love Khadeja I love my baby features Like the creator love all
Who acknowledge truth and seekers We on point heat seekers Targeting the black marketing Run up on em the heaters Everybody following with no Feeling like we killing Because I know they defeat us It don't til we complete this, keep this fly There's so much to life you just stay Black and God
Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in than the seed in the blackberry pie Blacker than the of my eye Black like man cry man wan ask "Who am I?" I reply, "The U.N.I., V.E.R.S.A.L. Magnetic" Work to respect the angelic, climb the And it til the valley's enveloped You're full of big chat but you nah me I'm dark like the side of the you don't see the moon shine newly
You know who else is a Star? (Who?) Me You know who is a Black Star? (Who?) Me You know who is a Black Star, who we? (And we) Be shining and shining, when we rhyming and We be shining and shining, when we rhyming and
Now everybody hop on the one, the of the two It's the third eye vision, five side The 8th Light, is gonna shine tonight It's the third eye vision, five dimension
You the light Go the dark The way is ass-backwards It's Make you to crow like a blackbird right You from your first day to your last night Sometimes you your ass like Lint on clothes you froze in The black Dead Before you get your head Badu We see through voodoo Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealing with black magic Try to you Not on by you Like civil-(lies do get you black listed) Be unlucky for you a black cat A Revolution is the That's what we Greed plague my people like the indeed
Now people unite, and let's all get down Now everybody hop on the one, the of the two It's the eye vision, five side dimension The 8th Light, is gonna bright tonight Everybody hop on the one, the of the two the third eye vision, five side dimension The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright It's the third eye vision, five dimension up to eight, light shine bright