Back Stabbers - Sammus

It’s a fine line

Unclear if it’s my pride or arrogance

Sharing my Black American narrative

Yet here it is

--- complected like Ledisi

-- inherited legacies

My heritage vetted me

To fare better than Medicis

To tread on the seven seas

My rudders will never cease

My dreads is the only things dark and twisted in fantasies

That exist in the canopies where I rest on my family tree

Genetics from many queens

My umi’s umi’s umi’s umi never rode no slave ship

That doesn’t mean I’m bougie and I don’t need conversation

You could catch a two-piece put my two weeks in I’m out

Fela Kuti in my hoopty get my suitcase then I bounce

Said our skin is black as ashes

Throwing booty scratchin' cracks at us

Laughed about our accents

Like ya’ll blacks was Anglo Saxxons sons

That’s so dumb cuz being black from Jacksonville

Or being black and African

Don’t kill the mass appeal of giving blacks in jail the maximum

Black like Materia

Matter fact I’m black

Like I’m Back to America

Matter fact I’m blacker than that

I got passion for blacks cuz that matters

So I really hate the fact some blacks are backstabbers

I’m black like Materia

Matter fact I’m black

Like I’m Chad or Namibia

Matter fact I’m blacker than that

I got passion for blacks cuz that matters

So I really hate the fact some blacks are backstabbers

I’m tellin' ya’ll

I fight survivor’s guilt

In my Godiva pelt

I trace the lines of family ties that light the kuiper belt

Follow the drinking gourd to downloading Liquid Swords

To recording hip hop scores 'bout Megazord on mixing boards

But no matter the tone, or phrase

The nose, the face

The souls of the diaspora compose a race

Yet those displaced

Are told that they are nothing more then throw aways

PLEASE

It’s the self-important hating sons of transplants

Up against descendants of the slaves with «Uncle Sam’s» stance who add

Pollution to solutions

I eschew their contribution

I just want a revolution like it’s dance dance

I got the blood of Lumumba in every cell

No hyperbole brother my daddy will tell

About central-intelligence

Killing our relatives like we Max Payne

They quell our rebellions

Send us to heaven just like a match made

It’s the ‘zact same

Some have the scars on they backs and some in they last name

Black like Materia

Matter fact I’m black

Like I’m Back to America

Matter fact I’m blacker than that

I got passion for blacks cuz that matters

So I really hate the fact some blacks are backstabbers

I’m black like Materia

Matter fact I’m black

Like I’m Chad or Namibia

Matter fact I’m blacker than that

I got passion for blacks cuz that matters

So I really hate the fact some blacks are backstabbers