Uh! Watch your bad self Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it louder (I'm black and I'm proud) Look a-here Some people say we got a lot of malice Some say it's a lotta nerve But I say we won't quit movin' Until we get what we deserve We've been 'buked, and we've been scorned We've been treated bad, talked about as sure as you're born But just as sure as it take two eyes to make a pair, huh! Brother, we can't quit until we get our share Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) One more time, say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), huh I've worked on jobs with my feet and my hands But all the work I did was for the other man And now we demands a chance to do things for ourselves We tired of beatin' our head against the wall An' workin' for someone else Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Ooh Ooh-wee, you're killin' me Alright, uh, you're out of sight Alright, so tough, you're tough enough Ooh-wee, uh, you're killin' me Ooh! Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it louder (I'm black and I'm proud) Now, we demand a chance to do things for ourselves We're tired of beatin' our heads against the wall And workin' for someone else Look-a here, there's one thing more I got to say right here Now, now we're people, we're like the birds and the bees We'd rather die on our feet than keep livin' on our knees Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), huh! Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), huh! Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), Lordy, Lordy, Lordy Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Ooh! Uh! Alright now, good God You know we can do the boogaloo Now, we can say we do the funky part Now we do, huh Sometimes we dance, we sing, and we talk You know I do back, I do the camel walk Alright now, huh, alright Alright now, huh Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), let me hear ya, yeah Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Now we're the men of chance and do thing for ourself We're tired of beating our heads against the wall And working for someone else, huh You know, we are people too, we're like birds and the bees But we'd rather die on our feet than keep living on our knees Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), let me hear ya, huh Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), huh Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud) Ooh! Ooh-wee, you're killing me Alright, huh, out of sight Alright, you outta sight Ooh-wee, ooh no! Ooh-wee, you're killing me Ooh-wee, ooh-wee Ooh-wee, ooh-oh Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), huh Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud), God, I can feel it Say it loud, huh (I'm black and I'm proud) Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)

This is a man's world This is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing Without a woman or a girl Say it one more time This is a man's world This is a man's world But it would be nothing Without a woman or a girl You see, man made the cars to take us over the roads Man made the trains to carry the heavy loads Man made electric light to take us out of the dark Man made the boat for the water, like Noah made the ark This is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing Nothing without a woman or a girl Man thinks about a little bit of baby girls and baby boys Man makes them happy 'cause man makes them toys And after man make everything he can Man makes money to buy from other man This is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing Nothing without a woman or a girl Oh, now man needs a woman Man got to have a woman He needs a woman or a girl He needs a woman Man makes everything he can But a woman makes a better man Man needs a woman Man thinks about anything but But money can't buy him love Face the fact, you gotta face the fact Man needs a woman He needs a woman or a girl, oh oh Man needs a woman He needs a woman

Uhh, uh huh, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh huh, come on, check it out, check it out, what? Brand Nubian "I'm black and I'm proud" Uh, like that, like that, what? "Say it loud" "I'm black and I'm proud" Come on, come on, come on, come on "Say it loud" We made men in this world, digging for bones The untraceable ones come with no clones A hundred years from now y'all can still get this bomb On the Brand Nubian dot com My name should be mentioned with the Portier, not the Gualtier Although it smell good, I still get mad at Rosewood A Nubian card member since that faithful December In the eighty years, from tears to cheers, things we did should be listed In a pyramid, studied by a little kid Talked about by old jacks with slacks Can I move the black is my first and foremost Can I get a little land for me and mine? Grow vegetables, maybe make a little wine Build with the Gods and the bright sunshine Before we save others we gotta save our own kind "I'm black and I'm proud" "Say it loud" "I'm black and I'm proud" "Say it loud" "I'm black and I'm proud" "Say it loud" "I'm black and I'm proud" "Say it loud" Now did you know it was you who was first to walk the Earth Gave birth to the Universe, uh Afflicted with the curse of the slave Predicted to inherit the earth in the last days Now as we take you home, what we make our own It's written in stone like Commandments Read them every now and then or when you get the chance Catch a glance through the power lens, see if you could see us advance G-O-D in the dance, reporting freelance Fought for a chance, got you hanging by the seat of your pants Our immediate stance when we came to the game Was completely advanced so no one sounds the same Seven and one-half ounces of brain When we around make sure you bow down to the king Brand Nubian style is how we do our thing So if you feel good, real good Scream it out loud if you black and you proud Feel me now, check my style A brother's resume run longer than the Nile Justice cipher born to teach man, woman and child In the land of the lost where my people went foul Do the knowledge, black, look at the way that we act Smoking crack or each other with the gat The only race of people who kill self like that I deal with actual facts to keep my mind on track I love y'all that's why I say these things Watch me transform chickenheads to queens Rhymes full of protein like rice and beans Brand Nubian cats here to change all that The maker, the owner, the cream of the Earth Proud to be black because the black man's first My flow frequency is at a million megahertz So when I spit my verbals I'm heard around the Universe (Yeah, yeah, yeah) So don't front, say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud