All Black Everything

## Song by Lupe Fiasco

"**All Black Everything**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the 11th track from his third studio album, *Lasers* (2011). It samples Jimmy Durante's "I'll Be Seeing You". The song reimagines a world where there was no racism or slavery.

Fiasco explained how Atlantic Records "let [him] do what" he wanted and "didn't interfere" on this particular track and "Words I Never Said".

## Credits and personnel

* Greg "G-Ball" Magers – recording
* Irving Kahal – writer
* Joe Peluso – mixing
* Sammy Fain – writer
* The Buchanans – producer
* Wasalu "Lupe Fiasco" Jaco – vocals, writer
* Wizzo Buchanan – writer

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

Sometimes, you just gotta—

Go!

[Hook]

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never try, you would never see

Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave

So there were no slaves in our history

Were no slave ships, were no misery

Call me crazy, or isn't he?

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

[Verse 1]

Uh, and we ain't get exploited

White man ain't fear it so he did not destroy it

We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it

Built it up together so we equally appointed

First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it

Constitution written by W.E.B. Du Bois

Were no reconstructions, civil war got avoided

Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer

Extra extra on the news stands

Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan

Malcolm Little dies as an old man

Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him

Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Qu'ran

President Bush sends condolences from Iran

Where Fox News reports live

That Ahmadinejad wins the Mandela Peace Prize

[Hook]

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never try, you would never see

Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave

So there were no slaves in our history

Were no slave ships, were no misery

Call me crazy, or isn't he?

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

[Verse 2]

Uh, and it ain't no projects

Keepin' it real is not an understood concept

Yeah, complexion's not a contest

'Cause racism has no context

Hip-hop ain't got a section called "Conscious"

Everybody rappin' like crack never happened

Crips never occurred nor Bloods to attack them

Matter of fact, no hood to attack in

Somalia is a great place to relax in

Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin

The Rat Pack was a cool group of black men

That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons

Eminem fitted in, but then again

He inspired a black rapper tryin' to mimic him

And that's what really rose up out of Michigan

The "sounding white" rapper by the name of 50 Cent

(Hah!)

[Hook]

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never try, you would never see

Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave

So there were no slaves in our history

Were no slave ships, were no misery

Call me crazy, or isn't he?

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

[Verse 3]

Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy

I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be

Now we can't do nothing about the past

But we can do something about the future that we have

We can make it fast or we can make it last

Every woman queen and every man a king and

When those color lines come we can't see between

We just close our eyes 'til its all black every-thing

[Hook]

You would never know what you could ever be

If you never try, you would never see

Stayed in Africa, we ain't never leave

So there were no slaves in our history

Were no slave ships, were no misery

Call me crazy, or isn't he?

See I fell asleep and I had a dream

It was all black everything

[Outro]

All black everything

Yeah

All black everything

Yeah

## References

1. ↑ "Lupe Fiasco discusses the making of 'L.A.S.E.R.S.': 'It was destroying me'". *Chicago Tribune*. March 1, 2011. Archive from the original on March 5, 2011.