Be Black chords by King Sun

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Verse 1

Have any of you ever been to Africa,

Back to the motherland?

It's somethin'

Verse 2
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All these  (D major)  (G major)  (A flat major)  (D major) 
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 (G major)  (A flat major)  (D major) lovely
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brothers  (G minor)  (A flat major)  (D major) and sisters  (G minor)  (A flat major) 
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The  (G minor) subject at  (A flat major) hand is about  (D major) 
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your own people  (G minor) 
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 (A flat major) The  (D major) poison animal eaters,  (G minor) 
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slaves  (A flat major) of a mental  (D major) death in power  (G minor)  (A flat major) 
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 (D major) And our next speaker,
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 (G minor)  (A flat major) well  (D major) we  (G minor) know who he  (A flat major) is

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Verse 3
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 (D major) This is not a rhyme about the  (G minor) racial times
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 (A flat major) And if you  (D major) don't want to hear
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it then pay  (G minor) it no mind
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 (A flat major) What  (D major) I'm about to say may
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get you  (G major) all upset
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 (A flat major) So   (D major) I apologize and the  (G minor) wise don't sweat
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 (A flat major) The  (D major) matter at hand is to
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 (G minor) ward the black (A flat major) 
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That live a  (D major) falsehood life
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and that's  (G minor) no way to  (A flat major) act
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You  (D major) don't wear gold because
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 (G minor) you can't af (A flat major) ford it
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The medal (D major) lion was cheap,
so you went out and bought it
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From a Chinese man, or some  (G minor) Korean  (A flat major) fella
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I  (D major) bet you think your money
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went to  (G minor) help  (A flat major) Mandela
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Oh  (D major) really, has the pas (G major) t been
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for (A flat major) gotten?
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 (D major) Dressin' how they used to in the
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 (G major) days of pickin'  (A flat major) cotton
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 (D major) Martin Luther King did a  (G major) lot for us
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 (A flat major) But today  (D major) it's cool to
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play the  (G major) back of the bus
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 (A flat major) I  (D major) study one twenty, I'm  (G major) right and exact
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 (A flat major) So  I  (D major) think I should reveal what it is to be black

Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Now  (D major) everybody's wearin'
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the red  (G minor) black and  (A flat major) green
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 (D major) Here's the point,
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do you  (G major) know what it means?  (A flat major) 
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 (D major) Red for the bloodshed,
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 (G minor) black for the  (A flat major) people
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Green  (D major) for the land to be  (G minor) utilized  (A flat major) equal
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"Yo  (D major) I'm from Africa"
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 (G major) boy you're just a  (A flat major) faker
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 (D major) Name one city  (G major) "Uhh, Ja (A flat major) maica!"
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 (D major) Wrong, and I think  (G minor) that's a  (A flat major) shame
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An  (D major) African look with an
American name
You might fool others but you
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 (G major) can't fool  (A flat major) Sun
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Want to  (D major) build with the brother,
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then  (G minor) I am the one
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 (A flat major) Play con (D major) nect the dots,
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all the  (G minor) way to the moth (A flat major) erland
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 (D major) What have you done for your na
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 (G major) tion my brother  (A flat major) man
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 (D major) You can't even do the right  (G major) things for self
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 (A flat major) Then you  (D major) got the nerve
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to criticize  (G major) somebody  (A flat major) else
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If it  (D major) wasn't for Chuck
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you wouldn't  (G minor) know of  (A flat major)  (D major) Farrakhan
I understand that the man is a paragon
Open up your eyes and
ears and try to learn
Stop perpetratin' with your
false concern
Even some rappers,
frontin' in their videos
Nothing but Oreos,
tryin' to be memorial
I'm not impressed,
by the way some stars
perpetrate to be original,
you know who you are
I diss my people who choose to lack

Interlude 2
'Cause there's more to learn on how to be black
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Verse 5
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And then they  (D major) say I'm prejudiced,
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cause  (G major) I like red  (A flat major) bones
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But  (D major) nowadays original  (G major) girls
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are head (A flat major) strong
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 (D major) Not as a whole, but the ma (G minor) jority I  (A flat major) know
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Are  (D major) too busy frontin' yo,
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try (G minor) in' to be fly  (A flat major) though
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 (D major) You might hear this and
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 (G major) think I'm trip (A flat major) pin'
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But  (D major) knowledge the wisdom
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before  (G minor) you start  (A flat major) flippin'
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As  (D major) modern day God,  (G minor) I do ana (A flat major) lysis
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To  (D major) find out what makes
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them hard  (G minor) like cal (A flat major) louses
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In (D major) stead of being sweat,
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truth (G minor) ful and  (A flat major) soft
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They  (D major) want to be false
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and that  (G major) turns me  (A flat major) off
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Your  (D major) hair's not real,
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And your  (D major) makeup is swine plus a  (G major) big disguise
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 (A flat major) Your  (D major) clothes are tight,
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I can  (G minor) see every  (A flat major) inch
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And then you  (D major) wonder how I get
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this  (G minor) urge to pinch  (A flat major) 
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 (D major) Sellin' your sex, without  (G minor) makin' love
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in you and that's unheard of
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If I got dollars, I'm  (G major) good for your  (A flat major) number
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 (D major) If I look fine, I get a  (G major) one night slum (A flat major) ber
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 (D major) Wham, bam, but no  (G major) thank you  (A flat major) ma'am
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Want to  (D major) knock the boots but
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you don't  (G major) know who I  (A flat major) am
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 (D major) This is not a diss to my  (G major) black  (A flat major) sista
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If I  (D major) screamed on ya daughter,
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 (G minor) pardon me mis (A flat major) ta
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The  (D major) point I'm makin', such a  (G major) visual fact
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 (A flat major) Teach  (D major) her to be original, and how to be black

Interlude 3
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Verse 6

Groove to this

Move to this

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Verse 7
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 (D major) I know you're probably mad
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and would  (G major) like to roast  (A flat major) me
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But  (D major) get yourself together,
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be (G minor) fore you ap (A flat major) proach me
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'Cause  (D major) I'm no sucka, I  (G major) say what I feel
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 (A flat major) I might  (D major) hurt your feelings,
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but at  (G major) least I'm real
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 (A flat major) The  (D major) way to be black is to  (G major) strive for goals
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 (A flat major) You're no  (D major) longer the people
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who was  (G major) bought and sold
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 (A flat major) My  (D major) ad vice to you is a word  (G major) to the wise
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 (A flat major) Snap  (D major) out of the negative,
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 (G major) into the civ (A flat major) ilized
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 (D major) This place around you was
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 (G major) meant to down  (A flat major) you
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 (D major) Kings and Queens but yet they
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 (G major) still won't crown
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 (A flat major) Sun  (D major) Born Allah has a goal  (G major) no doubt  (A flat major) if
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you're black (D major) 

Outro 1
and you're proud you better live that out
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