This is the curse of the Black genius In a world that worship the Black penis So if you Black it means you should be packing So either, pack that or pack heat but The only thing small is of your back Where you pack And you never wear backpacks Unless that sack of weed is Underneath the Books from your math class That you half ass When you read it This is the curse of the Black genius Bilingual by nature see how easily we switch A pretense so you think us half decent But the speech you call bad is Black english Heard through Black folklorist and Black singers Working to reverse the stories that of the English Told us when they stole us and we believed it Planted it so deep in the culture we can't leave it This is the curse of the Black genius The hurt of Black teens The burden of Black leaders The purposeful subversion of Black achievement Now we riding dirty swerving off the path that King went It seems that crack in Black regions Made that crack in our history that seamless From marching in Black legions To "Negro please, I don't wanna hear that Black king shit" So this is the curse of the Black genius Ashamed like he covered in Black lesions Cuz the Blacks he be friends with tease him So he follow that natural Black sequence You know those FRESH-men Who swear they hardcore Fearless 'cept they scared of being SOFT-more And that's treason So he dropped outta high school and never became a Black senior In more ways than one Check the pun Just because he acted like one of his buddies More like an understudy But he'd overstudy Was tryna become somebody Never fully understood So this is the curse of Black intellect The car crash where smart and Black intersect That interrupts the images that's depicting us Seen on TV screens, Radio, Internet But here I am to intervent Yeah here I am to interject Cuz yes I am a Black genius Yes I am a Black genius Yes I got them Black genes, yes Black hoodie, Black shirt, and Black jeans, yes But yes I am a Black Gen-yes! Yes I am a Black Gen-yes! CHANT: Yes I am a Black genius (repeat)