VRY BLK

Jamila Woods & Noname * Track #2 On HEAVN

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VRY BLK by Jamila Woods (Ft. Noname)

Release Date

Mon Jul 11 2016

Performed by

Jamila WoodsNoname

Produced by

oddCouple & Kweku Collins

Writed by

Noname & Jamila Woods

About

“VRY BLK” serves as the second song on Jamila’s debut album Heavn. The Odd Couple produced melody is identical to the clapping game “Mary Mack.” Adding their own touch to it, Jamila and Noname talk about relationships with art, police brutality, and black magic.

This track is also very similar to “...

VRY BLK Lyrics

[Verse 1: Jamila Woods]
Black is like the magic, and magic's like a spell
My brothers went to heaven, the police going to
... yeah, they're going to, hello operator, emergency hotline
If I say that I can't breathe, will I become a chalk line
Line up to see the movie, line up to see the act
The officers are scheming to cover up their
Cover up their...ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies
Your serving and protecting is stealing babies lives

[Chorus: Jamila Woods]
I'm very black, black, black
Can't send me back, back, back
You take my brother, brother, brother
I fight back, back, back, back
I'm very black, black, black
I made a pact, pact, pact
You take my brother, brother, brother
I fight back, back, back, back

[Verse 2: Noname]
Everything is everything, a mantra says the guillotine missionary commissioned misery into angel wings
And all he wanna do is be still and cut bread
Never know the dead, how they whisper "Forgive me"
Everything is relative, politicize the evidence
I heard a politician reiterate all the messages
And all he wanna do is feed family, be famous
Never know the poor, how they scream out "Redeem me"
Everything is casualty, a song I heard, the bullets sing
I know a couple babies gon' see 'em fly tonight
He wish he wasn't magic, all he wanna do is be a passage
In a book titled "America the Savage"
Symphony is symphony, when everything was meant to be
Piano man and drummer boy just invented a song for me
And all I wanna do is find love and be happy
And all I wanna do is find love

[Chorus: Jamila Woods]
I'm very black, black, black
Can't send me back, back, back
You take my brother, brother, brother
I fight back, back, back, back
I'm very black, black, black
I made a pact, pact, pact
You take my brother, brother, brother
I fight back, back, back, back
I'm very black, black, black
(Double, double this)
Can't send me back, back, back
(Double, double that)
You take my brother, brother, brother
(The trouble trouble is)
I fight back, back, back, back
(I'm very, very black)

[Outro: Jamila Woods]
And that is all I, that is all I know
And that is all I, that is all I know
That is all I... is all I know
And that is all I, that is all I know

VRY BLK Q&A

Who wrote VRY BLK's ?

VRY BLK was written by Noname & Jamila Woods.

Who produced VRY BLK's ?

VRY BLK was produced by oddCouple & Kweku Collins.

When did Jamila Woods release VRY BLK?

Jamila Woods released VRY BLK on Mon Jul 11 2016.

When did Jamila learn those hand games?

I was maybe 8, and it was at a summer art camp where all we would do was hand games. But the camp was a severely difficult social experience for me, because I was really shy. I remember the teacher made us stand up and sing a song on the first day, and I was trying to keep the theme song of “Full Ho...

Why does she spell "black" without "ac"?

I think similar to the way I spell black B-L-K, that comes from one of my poetry mentors. His name’s Avery R. Young and he always spelled black that way. I think it was a way of renaming and reclaiming his identity and our identity as black people […] For me, it just made more sense to adjust it sin...

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