Adrian Dunn - Intro in Black (feat. Ken Like Barbie & the Adrian Dunn Singers) Lyrics

I am what the preachers call Sin
An abomination of Flesh
3/5ths a person
Not human
But I am black
Black like corridors
Or thunder storms
Or different when embodied by
Personified
Kinky hair and dark skin
Because what scares you the most is this color black
In its darkness
In its expressiveness
In its tint

You see I am your fears manifested
Young brown boys in hoodies on dark streets hunted
And you think you have fathomed me
Measured by the circumference of your psychotic psychology yet
Still confused as to why that I have a propensity for smoking trees
Because as you would soon forget
In a previous life
I was lynched by one
I am fugitive as I am captive
Always seeking but escaping justice
I am
Fatherless children programmed to believe daddies don't exist outside of incarceration
I am Mothers
Immobile and pregnant
Barefoot and stagnant
Lost in the cluster f*ck of this crooked system
I am
I am
I am Jailed
For crimes
Committed by
Someone who looks like me
And by looks like me all I mean is human
But I am a gift
Prophetic in My resilience
Created in his likeness
Chosen by him to live the life that I live
I am Lyric
I am rhyme
I am song
I am musical hieroglyphs to freedom
I am ancestral in my timbre and in my cadence
I Iam
I am my native drum when I dance
Do you hear me!
I am my native drum when I dance