We Are Darker Than Blu(e)

Lyrics

[Intro: Blu & Curtis Mayfield] We people I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue) I'm talkin' bout [Verse 1: Blu] It took people like Huey to move me My life is like a movie reel, no films, feel me? The real me is blacker than my African family tree Blacker then the Black Panther Party's army On me, armed to the teeth with the beast All ready to catch heat from a G, spark leaves Lift up, outer space, blackface picture us that deep Black is the bottom of the black sea Black is the reason why I am free, I am me A human being being more than all that I can be Multiply more times, Most High majesty Magic me John's son as black as can be High yellow acapello afro actually Nappy tree, lifted to the black above me Buzz freeze for my niggas, trust me This is for my niggas from the poorest to the richest that can be [Chorus: Blu & Curtis Mayfield] I'm talkin' 'bout (We people) I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue) I'm talkin' 'bout (We people, people) I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue) [Verse 2: Blu] Uh, what if Malcolm X wasn't dead And John F. Kennedy wasn't shot in the head And MLK was still living to this day? Do you think we would be living this way? I think that John Lennon and Nat Turner would've packed burners Peace for peace, I keep a piece to keep peace Six feet deep people rest in the piece they kept Judas sold out, Jesus wept We breathe the breath of life through the worst times Made it through the hurt for the first time ever since birth cryin' Seen the Earth dyin', heard about the worst crimes Dark nights personify when Black people unite Under moonlight, truth be told If the blackness glowed it wouldn't show another soul So we share and we care for other folks, truth be told We used to cover up the whole globe [Chorus: Blu & Curtis Mayfield] I'm talkin' 'bout (We people) I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue) I'm talkin' 'bout (We people, people) I'm talkin' to you (Who are darker then blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue) I'm talkin' to you (Blue, blue) [Verse 3: Blu & Curtis Mayfield] They tried to tell me Jesus Christ wasn't Black When Egyptian artifacts shows that the Persian army was Black That means Jesus had to be Blacker than the Egyptians then so he was blacker than me Kind of like Nat Turner had to be Imagine if we didn't have photography a couple centuries And they painted Kanye West a Caucasian The African-American parties would be raging What if they said the Beatles were Asian? Half man, half amazing I'm on a narrow path pacing A Black man from Afghan blazing a burning bush Learning 'bout the kingdom of Kush Push your wig back how blacks had another black's back And how crack made another Black crack How they got us all tagged in a prison stat Knowing damn well more than half ain't even living that I'm Black and I'm proud, ever since I was a child I knew that 'cause James Brown proved that back then Black man, I'm light-skinned but You know your color the same as me