Black Superhero - Robert Glasper, Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Kid

Hmm, sound like

Some superhero shit

Some black superhero shit

Hmm, damn

Oh yea

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

You need a nigga roll like me

Military mind stated and I keep a gun and a degree

You can label me a huey p

Made a martyr outta martin, outta Malcolm, out a nigga

I refuse to let these dirty devils make my gullah beggar

Fuck a hero see oh I will go make heed oh for my people

Give me liberty or death that is my credo not my ego

Dressed in a tuxedo, enter party, altar ego

Killed your need of it, gazebo, did it for the people

Love what motivated, I did not do it for hatred

But I truly hate the devil I cannot debate or fake it

I was asked a question and I asked about it hard

If I was facing death then I could ask one thing of God

I would ask for every nigga to be free here and abroad

And to be rightfully celebrated as a child of God

And to be rightfully celebrated as a child of God (as a child of God)

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

Our own kind took nip from us

Money still read «in God we trust»

Truthfully we envy, so why we so envious

And why our own kind envy us?

Pop said it’s hard but we gotta keep our head up

Goin' even though we know we fed up

It’s hella tension

Cause we ain’t careful where we all pay attention

I need all my real soldiers on the front line

Fighting for the right shit just one time

So unstoppable together at the same time, with the same mind

Yeah, we wanna be high and always above what’s beneath us, so

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

I’m talking bulletproof kinda suit

Reflect the struggle that they put us through

With a shrimp

To fight the power like Chaldea do

With the insight to be equal

Know the sky need it, a voice that finds reason

To multiply people in the streets full of calls

Marching on Washington, might as well be walking through walls

Type of superhero show up with ain’t no one to call

That’ll shield ya from them shields that been killing us all

High beam for eye to peep, the villains and the door

Power of resolution 'fore a war was even started

The knowledge to build and grow where they live

And take care of the kids and the older folk

The queens cause they need it most

Politic with the kings, a body can not a grow

True PTSD, cause mental health ain’t a joke

Feed the hungry, and though, everyone would know everywhere we go

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

Some take one of us to save us

Some take love and a lot of trust

We just took it have faith and know that

Cause you got now we got your back, I know

Some take one of us to save us

Some take love and a lot of trust

We just took it have faith and know that

Cause you got now we got your back, I know that

Every block every hood

Every city every ghetto

Need a black superhero

You know just, just the idea of how black people in this culture and society

get framed

And how everything possible is actually designed to actually diminish what your

true power

And so when you speak about the superhero-ness of our communities every ghetto,

every block, every street corner

Really all of those men and women are divine

They’re just living in a reality that tears them down and makes them feels as

though they’re not what they actually are

Cause they know it when they look in the mirror