[00:00.000] 作词 : Robert Glasper/Bryan Sledge/Justin Scott/Michael Render
[00:00.693] 作曲 : Robert Glasper/Bryan Sledge/Justin Scott/Michael Render
[00:01.386][Intro]
[00:02.387]Yeah (Up in the sky)
[00:05.397](It's a bird, it's a plane)
[00:10.159]Hmm, sound like some superhero shit (Up in the sky)
[00:15.430]Some Black superhero shit
[00:17.437](Up in the sky) Hmm, damn
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[00:20.446][Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]
[00:23.457]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (Up in the sky)
[00:29.477]Need a Black superhero (It's a bird)
[00:34.242]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a plane)
[00:40.011]Need a Black superhero
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[00:41.769][Verse 1: Killer Mike]
[00:42.270]You need a nigga roll like me
[00:43.775]Military mind stated and I keep a gun and a degree
[00:46.786]You can label me a Huey P
[00:48.795]Made a martyr outta Martin, outta Malcolm, outta Medgar
[00:51.555]I refuse to let these dirty devils make my Gullah beggar
[00:54.063]**** a hero see, oh, I will go make heed, oh, for my people
[00:56.573]Give me liberty or death, that is my credo, not my ego
[00:59.332]Dressed in a tuxedo, enter party, alter ego
[01:02.091]Killed your need of it, gazebo did it for the people
[01:04.601]Love what motivated, I did not do it for hatred
[01:07.610]But I truly hate the devil, I cannot debate or fake it
[01:10.118]I was asked a question and I asked about it hard
[01:12.880]If I was facing death, then I could ask one thing of God
[01:15.390]I would ask for every nigga to be free here and abroad
[01:18.150]And to be rightfully celebrated as a child of God
[01:20.658]And to be rightfully celebrated as a child of God (As a child of God)
[01:22.663][Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]
[01:22.913]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a plane)
[01:28.181]Need a Black superhero
[01:32.697]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (Up in the sky)
[01:38.470]Need a Black superhero
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[01:40.978][Verse 2: BJ the Chicago Kid]
[01:41.478]Our own kind took Nip' from us
[01:42.983]Money still read, "In God we trust"
[01:44.990]Truthfully we envy, so why we so envious?
[01:47.999]And why our own kind envy us?
[01:50.507]Pac said it's hard, but we gotta keep our head up
[01:53.017]Goin' even though we know we fed up
[01:56.028]It's hella tension 'cause we ain't careful where we all pay attention
[02:01.046]I need all my real soldiers on the front line
[02:04.059]Fighting for the right shit just one time
[02:06.569]So unstoppable together at the same time, with the same mind
[02:11.589]Yeah, we wanna be high and always above what's beneath us, so
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[02:20.620][Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]
[02:21.121]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)
[02:27.139]Need a Black superhero (It's a bird, it's a plane)
[02:31.403]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)
[02:36.924]Need a Black superhero
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[02:38.680][Verse 3: Big K.R.I.T.]
[02:38.931]I'm talking bulletproof kinda suit
[02:40.687]Reflect the struggle that they put us through, with a shrimp
[02:43.195]To fight the power like Chuck D'll do, with the insight to be equal
[02:46.456]Know the sky need it, a voice that finds reason
[02:49.217]To multiply people in the streets full of calls
[02:51.977]Marching on Washington might as well be walking through walls
[02:54.487]Type of superhero show up with ain't no one to call
[02:57.246]That'll shield you from them shields that been killing us all
[03:00.004]High beam for eye to peep, the villains and the door
[03:02.512]Power of resolution 'fore a war was even started
[03:05.524]The knowledge to build and grow where they live
[03:07.784]And take care of the kids and the older folk
[03:09.539]The queens 'cause they need it most
[03:10.793]Politic with the kings, a body cannot a grow
[03:13.304]True PTSD, 'cause mental health ain't a joke
[03:16.065]Feed the hungry, and though, everyone would know everywhere we go
[03:19.328][Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]
[03:19.579]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a bird, it's a plane)
[03:25.349]Need a Black superhero
[03:30.114]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (Up in the sky)
[03:35.635]Need a Black superhero
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[03:37.641][Bridge]
[03:38.643]It's gon' take one of us to save us, it's gon' take love and a lot of trust
[03:43.159]We just took it, have faith and know that
[03:46.169]Long as you got mine, I got your back, I know
[03:48.928]It's gon' take one of us to save us, it's gon' take love and a lot of trust
[03:53.702]We just took it, have faith and know that
[03:56.212]Long as you got mine, I got your back, I know (Know that)
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[03:59.472][Chorus: BJ the Chicago Kid]
[04:02.481]Every block, every hood, every city, every ghetto (It's a plane)
[04:08.000]Need a Black superhero (Need a Black superhero)
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[04:19.292][Outro: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah]
[04:22.305]You know, just, just the idea of how Black men in this culture and society get framed
[04:28.073]And how everything possible is actually designed to actually diminish what your true power is, right?
[04:33.842]And so, when you speak about the superhero-ness of our communities
[04:37.101]Every ghetto, every block, every street corner
[04:39.860]Really, all of those men are God, they're just living in a reality that tears them down
[04:44.877]And makes them feels as though they're not what they actually are
[04:47.635]'Cause they know it when they look in the mirror
[04:54.172]The female take on it
[04:55.676]You know, and on some levels, it's a little more heartbreaking, right?
[04:58.686]Because, like, we've created this reality that walks away from us being clear of all the fact that the Black woman is actually the goddess on this planet (Absolutely)
[05:07.969]The mitochondrial information that's read was to create every type of man that exists on this planet is derivative of hers (Absolutely)
[05:14.994]Right? So, we actually have to sit there figuring out
[05:18.759]Which being on this planet actually constitutes God?
[05:22.769]And that term, if we're framing it in that way
[05:27.285]The actual living God on this planet
[05:28.789]The only direction you can point in is the direction of the Black woman
[05:32.553]First like, us as an extension of her, but firstly her, right?
[05:36.066]Because none of it exists without her