(Eneeks / Verse 1)

Where should I really start

How many years have we been torn apart

Is this black life imitating art

When we’re both at a loss looking for a spark

But when you’re speaking from the heart
I need to pay attention

You say we never love our own I know it’s hard to mention

But the city full of sin takes me for a spin

Brothers getting baby mother’s dead or in the pen

And black girls never trusting black men to defend

But we’re dying on the road for the code foe or friend

It’s hard to pretend and amend

And you wonder why the ends are called the ends

We pit the dark skin girl against the light one

Or put our black queen down for a white one

And I can understand brother when it’s love its love

But we don’t date black why do we fight one

And I admit it we don’t get it cause in spite of some ugh

The sisters got our backs they never hide or run

Broken communication from the plantation and 365 days we go around the sun

We screaming black lives matter with no peace in our manner

And we can’t get along to climb our own ladder

What’s sadder that we argue to the sun rise

And now I can’t see my daughter or my son rise

I never realised how we were going eye for eye

Our own anger crucifies leaves us all blind

Ignoring all signs

crossing all lines

We just repeating history from another time fine

And we ain’t never loving cause we arguing

And we are never hugging cause we charging in

I gotta speak straight from the heart again

Black queen we need to start again.

Go!

(Hook)

Self love is the way for the black kids
Self love is the way for the black kids

We are the kings and the queens in these chapters
We are the kings and the queens in these chapters

They can love they can hate us but the true fact is
They can love they can hate us but the true fact is

I’m so proud just to live in my blackness

I’m so proud just to Iive in my blackness

(Sabrina Washington)

Black kings and queens together we can live out our lives

Love yourself and know your worth you’ll turn out just fine

We just need the time to fix our hearts and our minds

It’s black love

Living our own minds


(Stush / Verse 2)

Black man your backs to the wall facing the outcome

That’s how come I’m staring out the window like Malcolm

Without funds your driven in this game like out run

I pray you live to be a strong black proud one so allow them

When you be getting searched upon a random

With powders in your boxes and I don’t mean talcum

Trying to find a better way

Out of these surroundings

You fight the streets until the jakes fire like Dhalsim

That’s why your not scourging

You’re trying to bring pounds in

So you can lift your family out these council housing

The disrespect you face at work is astounding

Queens when your king comes home make sure you crown him

In a relationship we navigate the foul winds

Girls we need more conversing instead of shouting

Guys not raise your hand in anger when we doubting

And going overboard like our ancestors drowning

Cause we got a shared history

If they dissing you then they dissing me

It’s time to keep it clean like Listerine

Black love is the key

Let’s own it like apostrophes

Dark skin light skin beef not for me

Let’s show them that we’re not divided psychologically

By dancing around the subject choreography

Let’s do away with stereotypes that have gotten to be

Played out like hatred of self and rapper misogyny

That only boost the European beauty ideology

One of the main reasons a black girls got a weave

While looking mix only makes us look obsolete

How we gonna love the black we don’t wanna see

We are originals it’s facts no apologies

It’s time to show the Nubian family is not an anomaly

But first we got to break the monotony

Black love

(Hook)

Self love is the way for the black kids
Self love is the way for the black kids

We are the kings and the queens in these chapters
We are the kings and the queens in these chapters

They can love they can hate us but the true fact is
They can love they can hate us but the true fact is

I’m so proud just to live in my blackness
I’m so proud just to Iive in my blackness

(Sabrina Washington)

Black kings and queens together we can live out our lives

Love yourself and know your worth you’ll turn out just fine

We just need the time to fix our hearts and our minds

We just need time to fix our minds

It’s black love

Living our own minds

We’re here

Black kings and queens together we can live out our lives

I don’t know how much further

Love yourself and know your worth you’ll turn out just fine

This is your time

We just need the time to fix our hearts and our minds

Use your heart and minds alright

It’s black love