11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters' 'Everything Is Love' Album

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Thanks to the incomparable Roots and ABC’s Blackish — here’s an animated, and more digestible explanation of Juneteenth.

What better way to celebrate the freedom of Black Americans than with lyrics from the freest African Americans we know: The Carters.

Bey and Jay released their highly anticipated, surprise duet album Everything Is Love over the weekend — and you can’t have a Hov and Bey album without them dropping hella gems about Black Excellence.

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Check out these lyrics from Everything Is Love that would make perfect Juneteenth tweets and IG captions. 

Black Effect: “They even biting cornrows put your scarecrows up!”– Jay- Z

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BOSS: “My great-great-grandchildren already rich / That’s a lot of brown children on your Forbes list” – Beyonce

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

APES*** : “I said no to the Superbowl. You need me. I don’t need you. Every night we in the end zone , tell the NFL we in stadiums too” – Jay-Z

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

Nice: “Y’all drag me in court for that shit, y’all backwards / After all these years of drug trafficking, huh / Time to remind me I’m Black again, huh?” – Jay- Z

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

Nice: “Patiently waiting for my demise / Cause my success can’t be quantified.” – Beyonce

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

Black Effect : “I pull up like the Freedom Riders, hop out on rodeo / Stunt with your curls, your lips, Sarah Baartman hips / Gotta hop into my jeans, like I hop into my whip”– Beyoncé

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

BOSS: “It’s disturbing what I gross (What I gross) / Survey says you not even close (Not even close)“- Jay-Z

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

Black Effect: “I will never let you shoot the nose off my Pharaoh“- Beyonce

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

Nice: “I ain’t never seen a ceiling in my whole life, that’s word to Blue” – Beyonce

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

Black Effect: “Get your hands up high like a false arrest / Let me see em up high, this is not a test / Let me see em, this is not a test / Now hands where I can see them.” – Jay -Z

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com

Honorable Mention

Nice: “Anybody ever had an era, when things could’ve been better / Feeling like you was on a stretcher and all you remember was the Hecklers

But the Universe lifts that weight, then you shine like a new feather / Blessings on blessings, et cetera, feeling like the best year ever” – Pharrell 

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11 Bold, Black Lyrics From The Carters’ New Album That Would Put Any Colonizer To Shame  was originally published on globalgrind.com