I'm Black and I'm Proud Songtext
von Brand Nubian

Uh, uh huh, yeah, yeah, yeah
Uh huh, come on, check it out, check it out, what?
Brand Nubian (I′m black and I'm proud)
Uh, like that, like that, what? (Say it loud) (I′m black and I'm proud)
Come on, come on, come on, come on (say it loud)

We made men in this world, digging for bones
The untraceable ones come with no clones
A hundred years from now y'all can still get this bomb
On the Brand Nubian dot com
My name should be mentioned with the Portier, not the Gualtier
Although it smell good, I still get mad at Rosewood
A Nubian card member since that faithful December
In the eighty years, from tears to cheers, things we did should be listed


In a pyramid, studied by a little kid
Talked about by old jacks with slacks
Can I move the black is my first and foremost
Can I get a little land for me and mine?
Grow vegetables, maybe make a little wine
Build with the gods and the bright sunshine
Before we save others we gotta save our own kind (I′m black and I′m proud)

Come on, (yeah) everybody uptown (say it loud)
Come on, come on (uhh) (I'm black and I′m proud)
Everybody downtown, y'all (what, what, what?) (say it loud)
Yeah, can′t hear ya now (I'm black and I′m proud)
Come on Eastside, Eastside, y'all (where they at, where they at, Jay?) (say it loud)
Yeah, yeah (uhh) (I'm black and I′m proud) Westside, Westside, y′all (say it loud)

Now did you know it was you who was first to walk the Earth
Gave birth to the Universe, uh
Afflicted with the curse of the slave
Predicted to inherit the earth in the last days
Now as we take you home, what we make we own
It's written in stone like Commandments
Read them every now and then or when you get the chance
Catch a glance through the power lens, see if you could see us advance
G-O-D in the dance, reporting freelance


Fought for a chance, got you hanging by the seat of your pants
Our immediate stance when we came to the game
Was completely advanced so no one sounds the same
Seven and one-half ounces of brain
When we around make sure you bow down to the king
Brand Nubian style is how we do our thing

So if you feel good, real good
Scream it out loud if you black and you proud (I′m black and I'm proud)
All my people on the right, y′all (say it loud) (yeah, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh)
(I'm black and I′m proud)
All my people on the left, y'all (on the left, (say it loud) on the left, yo)
Yeah, (that's right!) I see y′all, (I′m black and I'm proud) why?
All my people in the front, y′all (yeah, yeah) (say it loud)
Where they at, where they at? (I'm black and I′m proud)
Come on, all my people in the back, y'all (say it loud)

Feel me now, check my style
A brother′s resume run longer than the Nile
Justice cipher born to teach man, woman, child
In the land of the lost where my people went foul
Do the knowledge, black, look at the way that we act
Smoking crack or each other with the gat
The only race of people who kill self like that
I deal with actual facts to keep my mind on track
I love y'all that's why I say these things

Watch me transform chicken-heads to queens
Rhymes full of protein like rice and beans
Brand Nubian cats here to change all that
The maker, the owner, the cream of the Earth
Proud to be black because the black man′s first
My flow frequency is at a million megahertz
So when I spit my (yeah, yeah, yeah) verbals I′m heard around the Universe

So don't front now, say it loud (uh) (I′m black and I'm proud)
All my people from the projects (say it loud)
Yeah (come on), come on (come on) (I′m black and I'm proud)
Everybody on the block, yo (say it loud)
What? (Come on), Come on (I′m black and I'm proud)
If you holding down a nine-five just (say it loud)
Just say it loud, what? (I'm black and I′m proud)
If you happy just to be alive, come on (that′s right) (say it loud)

Yeah (yeah), yeah, uhh, uhh
Like that, like that
Uh-huh, like that, Jay
One time, that's right (you know how we do)
Every time, uhh