On the eighth track from his debut mixtape Sardonically Serious, Black Velvet examines the rampant discrimination and racial unrest in America juxtaposed with the growing popularity of the primarily black cast and directed Marvel box office success Black Panther.
Intro:
{Donald Trump}
Making our country great, it's a theme
It’s a theme that we have, Make America Great Again
And that's what people, that's what people want
{T’Challa}
Justice will come soon enough
Verse 1:
We got to break out them chains
They put a new dream in our brains, but
Around your neck is your gold-plated name
Seems they still got us detained
I want to live life like T'Challa
Not working for blue or white collar
Want a bad bitch look like Lala
King of my crew like Mufasa
What you mean I still can't get it though?
Pennies on a white man's dollar what you pay me though
Can't make it still 'cause my people's income low
'Cause we lazy and stupid, it’s self-inflicted (woah!)
Give the black man is fucking credit, yo
Brought Wakanda to the big screen
And the box office spoke
Man this ain’t no joke
Bridge:
And what you mean I cannot scream? (What you mean?)
And what you mean that's too extreme? (Naw that ain’t extreme)
And what you mean equality was right there in front of me?
I don't believe!
Hook:
Wakanda! That's what I'm screaming
Wakanda! That’s what we dreaming
Wakanda! That's where we headed
Wakanda! That's right, I said it
Wakanda! That's what I'm screaming
Wakanda! That's what we dreaming
Wakanda! That's what we bleeding
Wakanda! Black P succeeding
Verse 2:
Now the box office breaking records who denies it?
Black superhero, black cast, movie ticket, I buy it
Make it worth every civil struggle, every march, every riot
Every single mother in the hood that's trying, crying, lying in bed
Thinking how she going to raise a young boy who won't buy in
To the shit they ignited, it's 2018
And they're still all frightened, That's that fight or flightin'
'Whites are frightened', white flight in-fighting
All that white light and still ain't all that enlightened
But it's still not a crisis and we still draped in ices
Still stuck in our vices, quiet on the issues like some damn church mices
And that shit drive me crazy, I want to know who got the license
Got us taking defeat like a dead pedal
Guns ring in their ears, bitch that's death metal
Wait until the dust clears but it won't settle
Got us irritated now like we stung with nettles
Be a Killmonger with it, kill a king
When they're looking at you now, what you really want to bring?
What you really want to do? Who you really want to be?
Couldn't even have a dream, where's the damn sanctity?
So they thought we wasn't tough, so we had to call his bluff
Pulled the damn trump card, he's a joker fucking sluts
Aces racist but we still black, jack (yeah)
We got a mad king, where the royal flush at?
WAKANDA!
Hook:
That's what I'm screaming
Wakanda! That's what we dreaming
Wakanda! That's where we headed
Wakanda! That's right, I said it
Wakanda!
Post-Hook:
Wakanda, Rwanda it's all the same
Wakanda, Rwanda it's all the same
Wakanda, Rwanda it's all the same
What's in a name?
WAKANDA was written by Black Velvet.
WAKANDA was produced by Wonderlust Beats.
Black Velvet released WAKANDA on Sun Sep 23 2018.