[00:11.91]You would never know
[00:12.91]If you could ever be
[00:14.21]If you never try
[00:15.46]You would never see
[00:16.76]Stayed in Africa
[00:18.16]We ain't never leave
[00:19.56]So there were no slaves in our history
[00:22.21]Were no slave ships were no misery call me crazy or isn't he
[00:27.31]See I fell asleep and I had a dream it was all black everything
[00:31.41]Verse 1
[00:33.11]Uh and we ain't get exploited
[00:34.61]White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it
[00:37.81]We ain't work for free see they had to employ it
[00:40.41]Built it up together so we equally appointed
[00:42.61]First 400 years see we actually enjoyed it
[00:44.41]Constitution written by the W E B Du Bois
[00:47.71]Were no reconstructions Civil War got avoided
[00:49.67]Little black Sambo grows up to be a lawyer
[00:53.62]Extra extra on the news stands
[00:55.77]Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
[00:58.37]Malcolm Little dies as a old man
[01:00.82]Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
[01:03.47]Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Quran
[01:05.62]President Bush sends condolences from Iran
[01:08.52]Where FOX News reports live
[01:11.32]That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize
[01:13.87]Hook
[01:14.72]You would never know
[01:15.72]If you could ever be
[01:16.92]If you never try
[01:18.12]You would never see
[01:19.37]Stayed in Africa
[01:20.72]We ain't never leave
[01:22.17]So there were no slaves in our history
[01:24.17]Were no slave ships were no misery call me crazy or isn't he
[01:28.37]See I fell asleep and I had a dream it was all black everything
[01:33.92]Verse 2
[01:36.02]Uh and it ain't no projects
[01:37.67]Keepin it real is not an understood concept
[01:39.62]Yea complexion's not a contest
[01:42.92]Cause racism has no context
[01:45.52]Hip hop ain't got a section called conscious
[01:48.17]Everybody rappin' like crack never happened
[01:50.57]Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them
[01:53.32]Matter of fact no hood to attack in
[01:55.97]Somalia is a great place to relax in
[01:58.57]Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
[02:01.17]The Rat Pack was cool group of black men
[02:03.62]That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
[02:05.27]Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
[02:09.57]And that's what really rose up out of Michigan the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent ha
[02:17.42]Hook
[02:17.67]You would never know
[02:18.52]If you could ever be
[02:19.72]If you never try
[02:20.98]You would never see
[02:21.83]Stayed in Africa
[02:22.73]We ain't never leave
[02:24.48]So there were no slaves in our history
[02:26.48]Were no slave ships were no misery call me crazy or isn't he
[02:30.73]See I fell asleep and I had a dream it was all black everything
[02:35.68]Verse 3
[02:38.23]Uh and I know it's just a fantasy
[02:40.23]I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be
[02:42.73]Now we can do nothing bout the past
[02:44.88]But we can do something about the future that we have
[02:47.53]We can make fast or we can make it last
[02:50.63]Every woman Queenin' and every man a Kingin'
[02:53.58]When those color lines come we can't see between
[02:55.88]We just close our eyes 'til it's all black every-THING
[02:59.93]Hook
[02:59.98]You would never know
[03:00.13]If you could ever be
[03:00.33]If you never try
[03:01.78]You would never see
[03:04.13]Stayed in Africa
[03:05.28]We ain't never leave
[03:06.68]So there were no slaves in our history
[03:08.73]Were no slave ships were no misery call me crazy or isn't he
[03:13.48]See I fell asleep and I had a dream it was all black everything