
Date of issue: 10.05.2018
Song language: English
Black Kennedy |
If I was a Kennedy, I’d be a black Kennedy |
Black car, black tux, this is black symmetry |
Raised in the Chi though my family from Tennessee |
I remember me, 'Riem, Dilla, we was in the D |
Riding through the city with the top down |
We ain’t got no ceilings to our thoughts now |
It’s a beautiful ride |
Riding through the city with the top down |
We ain’t got no ceilings to our thoughts now |
It’s a beautiful ride |
Let the sun grow, I roll through the jungle on the humble |
Got compassion from my mother, streets from my uncle |
One code of honor is to move with no drama |
Know thyself, know gettin' money, know karma |
Hold respect like a charm that I got from my momma |
In the palm of my hand, it’s like a land that I’m fond of |
A calm dove, Lon love, the black Dalai Lama of |
Feed the masses with two fish for one love |
The sum of all pieces |
Release new releases to release us from the beast is the thesis |
I used to give my lil' cuz cleatses |
It’s what I used to get my grandmother pieces, she love sequins |
Diahann Carroll-like, some of these leaders are pharaoh-like |
Let the people go so they can face the east and grow |
Time for everything, everything is seasonal |
I dreamed enough everything is believable, it’s feasible |
If I was a Kennedy, I’d be a black Kennedy |
Black car, black tux, this is black symmetry |
Raised in the Chi though my family from Tennessee |
I remember me, 'Riem, Dilla, we was in the D |
Riding through the city with the top down |
We ain’t got no ceilings to our thoughts now |
It’s a beautiful ride |
Riding through the city with the top down |
We ain’t got no ceilings to our thoughts now |
It’s a beautiful ride |
Macaroons, easy afternoons |
Shorties buck shots under blacker moons |
In search of yellow suns, undeveloped ones |
They get hella guns, heat and melanin |
The streets where we from, beats heavy drums |
Wish I could put Jordans on the feet of everyone |
Black Kennedy, royalty with black identity |
Leader of the freestyle, I go to penitentiaries |
And write with the fight of Reverend Wright from Trinity |
For centuries, they’ll remember me for my similes |
But I metaphor more than that |
No matter how rich I get, I’ma pour it back |
The jurisdiction of justice, non-fiction of a hustler’s heart |
From dust we start |
And we must embark to passion mark the people |
Had our first black prez, I’ma be the sequel |
If I was a Kennedy, I’d be a black Kennedy |
Black car, black tux, this is black symmetry |
Raised in the Chi though my family from Tennessee |
I remember me, 'Riem, Dilla, we was in the D |
Riding through the city with the top down |
We ain’t got no ceilings to our thoughts now |
It’s a beautiful ride |
Riding through the city with the top down |
We ain’t got no ceilings to our thoughts now |
It’s a beautiful ride |
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Artist lyrics: August Greene
Artist lyrics: Common
Artist lyrics: Robert Glasper
Artist lyrics: Karriem Riggins