[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be

If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa

We ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he

See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything

[Verse 1]

Uh, and we ain't get exploited
White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it
We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it

Built it up together so we equally appointed
First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it
Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois

Were no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided
Little black Sambo grows up to be a lawyer
Extra extra on the news stands

Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
Malcolm Little dies as a old man
Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him

Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Quran
President Bush sends condolences from Iran
Where FOX News reports live

That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize

[Hook]

You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never try

You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave

So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything


[Verse 2]
Uh, and it ain't no projects

Keepin it real is not an understood concept
Yea, complexion's not a contest
Cause racism has no context

Hip hop ain't got a section called conscious
Everybody rappin' like crack never happened
Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them

Matter of fact no hood to attack in
Somalia is a great place to relax in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin

The Rat Pack was cool group of black men
That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons
Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him

And that's what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent, ha!

[Hook]

You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never try

You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave

So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything


[Verse 3]
Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy

I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be?
Now we can do nothing bout the past
But we can do something about the future that we have

We can make fast or we can make it last
Every woman Queenin' and every man a Kingin'
When those color lines come we can't see between

We just close our eyes 'til it's all black every-THING!

[Hook]
You would never know
If you could ever be

If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history

Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything