BLACK PARADE Lyrics

I'm going back to the south
I'm going back, back, back, back
Where my roots ain't watered down
Growing, growing like a baobab tree
Of life on fertile ground
Ancestors put me on game
Ankh charm on gold chains
With my Oshun energy oh
Drip all on me, woo!
Ankara Dashiki print
Hold up, don't I smell like Satya, Nag Champa incense?
Yeah, pure, ice, ice, ice, ice, bust down, uh
Flooded (Flooded)
Flooded (Flooded)
On my wrist, ow
Ooh
Going up, going up, motherland, motherland drip on me
Ooh
Melanin, melanin, my drip is skin deep like
Ooh
Motherland, motherland, motherland, motherland drip on me
Eeya
I can't forget my history is her story, yeah
I been black
Maybe that's the reason why they always mad, yeah
They always mad, yeah
Been passed 'em
I know that's the reason why they all big mad
And they always have been
Honey, come around my way, around my hive
Whenever mama say so, mama say
Here I come on my throne sitting high
Follow my parade oh, my parade
Talking slick to my folk (My folk)
Nip that lip like lipo (Lipo)
You hear them swarmin', right?
Bees is known to bite
Now here we come on our throne sitting high
Follow my parade oh, my parade
I'm for us
All black
All chrome
Black owned
Black tints
Matte black
Walk by, my window down
Let 'em see who in it
Crack a big smile (Ding!)
Go figure
Me and Jigga fifty 'leven children
They like, "Chick, how?"
I charge my crystals in a full moon
You can send them missiles, I'ma send my goons
Baby sister reppin' Yemoyah
Trust me, they gon' need an army
Rubber bullets bouncing off me
Made a picket sign off your picket fence
Take it as a warning
Waist beads from Yoruba (Ooh)
400 billi Mansa Musa (Ooh)
Stroll line to the barbecue
Put us any damn where, we gon' make it look cute
Pandemic fly on the runway in my hazmat
Children running through the house and my art all black
Ancestors on the wall, let the ghosts chit chat (Ancestors on the wall, let the ghosts chit chat)
Hold my hands we gon' pray together
Laid down face down in the gravel
We wearing all tight white to the funeral
Black love, we gon' stay together
Curtis Mayfield on the speaker (Ooh)
Lil' Malcom, Martin mixed with Mama Tina (Ooh)
Need another march, let me call Tamika (Ooh)
Need peace and reparation for my people (Ooh)
Fuck these laid edges, I'ma let it shrivel up (Shrivel up)
Fuck this fade and waves, I'ma let it dread all up (Dread it all up)
Put your fist up in the air and show black love (Show black love)
Motherland drip on me
Motherland, motherland drip on me
Honey come around my way, around my hive
Whenever mama say so, mama say
Here I come on my throne sitting high
Follow my parade oh, my parade
Talking slick to my folk (My folk)
Nip that lip like lipo (Lipo)
You hear 'em swarmin', right?
Bees is known to bite
Now here we come on our throne sitting high
Follow my parade oh, my parade
We got rhythm (We got rhythm)
We got pride (We got pride)
We birth kings (We birth kings)
We birth tribes (We birth tribes)
Holy River (Holy River)
Holy tongue (Holy tongue)
Speak the glory (Speak the glory)
Feel the love (Feel the love)
Motherland, motherland drip on me, hey, hey, hey
Motherland, motherland drip on me, hey, hey, hey
I can't forget my history is her story
Motherland drip on me
Motherland, motherland drip on me (Whoo!)
Honey, come around my way, around my hive
Whenever mama say so, mama say
Here I come on my throne sitting high
Follow my parade oh, my parade
Talking slick to my folk (My folk)
Nip that lip like lipo (Lipo)
You hear 'em swarmin', right?
Bees is known to bite
Now here we come on our throne sitting high
Follow my parade oh, black parade