YGB (Jump)

by Hodari Davis 2013

YGB makes Black People wanna JUMP, JUMP 

YGB makes Black People wanna JUMP, JUMP 

YGB makes Black People wanna JUMP, JUMP 

YGB makes Black People wanna JUMP, JUMP 

YGB makes Black people wanna

Act a fool

Ygb’ll take you back to school

Huh history class never

Felt so good

Bad grades leavin’ me

Misunderstood

I never heard of Booker T

Marcus Garvey

Or WEB

I Never knew my destiny

Was to become YGB

Chorus

Here and now

Heroes

Sheroes

Know how

We gonna make ya proud

When we go

No ego

We wanna say it loud

We're Black and Proud


(Bridge)

I got power

Nobody can take

I gotta back

Nobody Can break

Never fake

So real

Ygb with the mass appeal

We make other mcs sound dull

(When we say)

Black is beautiful

Check it out

Black is beautiful

Everybody say

Black is beautiful

Come on y'all

Black is beautiful

Ygb will make ya

JUMP JUMP

Ygb will make ya

JUMP JUMP

Ygb will make ya

JUMP JUMP

YGB will make you

lose ya head

Reach for the sky or shake ya dreads

Lettin you know our past ain't dead

We haven't  forgot Malcolm

Or Fred

Harriet or Rosa Parks

Resistance is still an art

Liberation begins with heart

YGB here to do our part

We remember

Gun shots

White hate

Don't stop

Our fate

The bottom of the stats

Not to late

To bring it all back

Black power

Black Pride

Black heart

Fighting genocide

YGB will make you touch the sky

These little heroes will make ya cry

Chorus

Here and now

Heroes

Sheroes

Know how

We gonna make ya proud

When we go

No ego

We wanna say it loud

We're Black and Proud

(bridge)

I got power

Nobody can take

I gotta back

nobody Can break

Never fake

So real

Ygb with the mass appeal

We make other mcs sound dull

(When we say)

Black is beautiful

Check it out

Black is beautiful

Everybody say

Black is beautiful

Come on y'all

Black is beautiful

 

Song (influences)

Kris Kross was a famous kids hip hop group that made history as the best selling kids hip hop group ever. Their famous song Jump featured none of the lyrics that YGB performs except the chorus and the spirit of youth rapping and performing at a high level. Their song inspired another song by Busta Rhymes that featured a chorus that is present in the second verse of the version of “Jump” that YGB performs.

Author

History

 
 
 

Malcolm X was a minister and spokesperson for the Nation of Islam. He was also the founder of the Black Muslim Mosque inc. and the Organization for Afro American Unity. He was a powerful speaker, civil rights leader and activist.  He was a student of the Honorable Elijah Muhammed, and a strong advocate for the human rights of Black people in the United States and around the world. He was a fierce critic of white people, anti blackness, and the legacy of colonialism in the United States and around the world.

  • Malcolm X believed in Black Pride and self defense and his teachings heavily influenced the Black Panther Party.

  • Malcolm X believed in separate but equal and thought integration was a bad idea.

  • Malcolm X was a brother and mentor to Muhammed Ali and led him to become a Muslim

  • Malcolm X is a respected ancestor all over the world especially among Black and freedom loving people

  • Malcolm X is a symbol of the best of Black resistance in the United States, honest, sincere, courageous and unapologetic.

 

Fred Hampton was the leader of the Chicago Chapter Black Panther Party

  • Fred Hampton is one of the most widely respected and honored leaders of the BPP outside of Oakland, California.

  • He spoke about equality, justice, and freedom for all Black people. He is known for saying “I am, The Revolution” and “All Power to the People”.

  • He also helped the Panther’s collaborate with other groups and organizations outside of the Black community in what he called a “Rainbow Coalition”.

  • The government was scared that he would be the Black Messiah - lead Black people to freedom - and killed him.

 

This is an actress depicting Harriet Tubman in an interview about her life. There is a lot of good information in this “interview”.

 

Harriet Tubman was an enslaved African person who became a revolutionary, rescuing hundreds of people from slavery.

  • She was known as the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad

  • She served as a spy, nursed military leader for the Union Army in the Civil War

  • Though she was a disabled Black woman who suffered from narcolepsy her whole life, she still dedicated herself to freeing people from slavery.

  • She ran for her freedom at least 19 times to save her own family members from Slavery, before the Civil War.