Black Money
Black Money
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“Black Money” by J.A. Outlaw is the first single released from the Black Money Exhibit Soundtrack. It’s an upbeat 90s-style Dancehall-Reggae track with a modern twist that name-drops different currencies previously and currently used in Africa and the African Diaspora. It calls for Black people to invest their money in assets, build wealth, and have more representation on their currencies, the latter issue referring more to the American and European contexts. Like the gold coin that forms the cover art of this single, Outlaw shines on “Black Money,” especially on the bridge, where he emphasizes, “…full time we have we own money…Marcus Garvey fight fi we, you know. Martin Luther King…Malcom X…Black people, a time fi unite. We need we own currency, we need we own land, we need we own place!!!” The artist implores his audience to “generate nuff wealth and keep it legit,” but he also asks the pressing question, “if Black Lives Matter why we still inna poverty?” A song that speaks to this moment, “Black Money” is out on all major digital music platforms – https://smarturl.it/pb07mi. It’s already creating a major buzz on the national and international music scene.
BLACK MONEY
J.A. Outlaw
Intro
Black Money Exhibit
A we say Black Power
Black currency
Black excellence
Hey
Verse 1
Spend some Real and Cruzeiro, while me a chill inna Rio de Janeiro
Naira, fi di yutes dem a Nigeria, Cedi and Peso, mucho dinero
Ivory Coast pon a vacay and a spend Francs, but Jah Jah know a Black people fi deh pon Euro
Botswana mek di money rain, Pula, till it full up inna me house like a pool yah
Angola wid di Angolar, Accompong Lumi backed by the solar
Libya with the Dinar, and Liberia have di Dollar
Ariary over Madagascar
Mi a buy some asset not no hot car
Black people a we a the top, Star, seh a we a the top, Star
Chorus
Black Money Exhibit, generate nuff wealth and keep it legit
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we wah we own money
Black money me a pree, bigger than riches man born wealthy
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we wah we own money
Verse 2
Millions a Gourde fi the people dem a Haiti
Mansa Musa money mek dem wah hate me
Seychelles weh the yutes dem deh deh a spend Rupee
The Black president me represent the Black currency
Ano Uncle Sam but me want US plenty
Full time them put Tubman pon the twenty
Black business, like Rihanna and Fenty
If Black Live Matter, why we still inna poverty
Inna South Africa weh me affi spend the Rand
Go over deh say me ago buy a piece a land
Through me have a couple grand, dem a call me the Don
A Black President a fight fi Black man
Chorus
Black Money Exhibit, generate nuff wealth and keep it legit
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we want we own money
Black money me a pree, bigger than riches man born wealthy
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we want we own money
BRIDGE
Yeah man a full time we have we own money now, u see me!
Black people fi have them own face pon them money
You see weh me a say
You know Marcus Garvey fight fi we, you know
Martin Luther King, you see weh me a say
Malcom X, you hear me a say nuh man
Black people, a time fi unite
We need we own currency, we need we own land, we need we own PLACE!!!
Chorus
Black Money Exhibit, generate nuff wealth and keep it legit
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we wah we own money
Black money me a pree, bigger than riches man born wealthy
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we wah we own money
Repeat Verse 1
Spend some Real and Cruzeiro, while me a chill me inna Rio de Janeiro
Naira fi d yutes dem a Nigeria, Cedi and Peso, mucho dinero
Ivory Coast pon a vacay and a spend Francs but, Jah Jah know a Black people fi deh pon Euro
Botswana mek di money rain, Pula, till it full up inna me house like pool yah
Angola wid di Angolar, Accompong Lumi backed by the solar
Libya with the Dinar, and Liberia have di Dollar
Ariary over Madagascar
Mi a buy some asset not no hot car
Black people a we a the top, Star, seh a we a the top, Star
Chorus
Black Money Exhibit, generate nuff wealth and keep it legit
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we wah we own money
Black money me a pree, bigger than riches man born wealthy
Yeah we want we own money, put we pon we Black money, and we wah we own money