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(Against the canvas of the night)

(Appears a curious celestial phenomenon)

Black people - unite, and let's all get down

(Called Black Star) We got to have what? We got to have that love

(But what is it?)

What is the Black Star?

Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car?

Is it shining from very far to where you are?

It is commonplace and different

Intimate and distant, fresher than an infant

Black, my family thick like that-strap molasses

Star on the rise in the eyes of the masses

Black is the color of my true love's hair

Stars are bright, shining, hot balls of air

Black like my baby girl's stare

Black like the veil that the Muslimina wear

Black like the planet that they fear — why they scared?

Black like the slave ship belly that brought us here

Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears (mmm)

That leave black faces well traveled with years

Black like assassin cross-hairs

Blacker than my granddaddy armchair

He never really got no time to chill there

'Cause his life was warfare, warfare

See, on the front lines, the blacks is all there

Black like the perception of who on welfare

Black like faces at the bottom of the well

I've been there before

To bring the light and heat it up like la cocina

Make without imagine happen, but maybe I'm just a dreamer

I love rockin' tracks like John Coltrane love Naima

Like the student love the teacher

Like the prophet love Khadija

Like I love my baby features

LIKE THE CREATOR LOVE ALL CREATURES

Who are knowledge, truth and peace seekers?

We on point like heat-seekers

Targeting the black marketing strategists

Run up on 'em with the heaters

Everybody following with no leaders

Feeling like we killing ourselves because I know they can't defeat us

It don't stop 'til we complete this, keep this fly

There's so much to life when you just stay Black and die

Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July

Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie

Blacker than the middle of my eye

Black like Fela Man Cry

Some man wan ask, "Who am I?"

I simply reply, "The U-N-I, V-E-R-S-A-L MAGNETIC"

Work to respect the angelic

Climb the mountain top and tell it til the valley's enveloped

You're full of big chat but you na know me

I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see

When the moon shine newly

You know who else is a black star? (Who?) Me

You know who else is a black star? (Who?) Me

You know who else is a black star? Who? WE

And we, be shining and shining, when we rhyming and rhyming

We be shining and shining, when we rhyming and rhyming

Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the TWO

It's the THIRD eye vision, FIVE-side dimension

The eighth light, is gon' shine bright tonight

It's the THIRD eye vision, FIVE-side dimension

You know the light

Come from the dark

The other way is ass-backwards

It's absurd

Make you wanna crow like a blackbird

That's right

You living from your first day to your last night

Sometimes you show your ass like

Lint on your clothes

When you froze in the black light

Dead that

Before you get your head wrapped

Like Badu

We see through your voodoo

Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealin' with that black magic

Try to civilize you

Not walk on by you

Like Sybil - lies do, get you blacklisted

It'll, be unlucky for you like a black cat (a panther)

Revolution is the answer - that's what we need

Greed plague my people like the cancer — true indeed

Black people, unite

Let's all get down

Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two

It's the third-eye vision, five-side dimension

The 8th light is gon shine bright tonight (uh, uh, uh)

Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two

It's the third-eye vision, five-side dimension

The 8th light is gon' shine bright tonight

It's the third-eye vision, five-side dimension

Equaling up to 8th light, shine bright

This that black 101 right there (hahaha)