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Black Boy

DOE, Jon Batiste

3:27•gospel, worship, christian, christian pop, christian r&b • Album Black Boy (feat. Jon Batiste) • 2026-02-20

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Associated Performer: DOE feat. Jon Batiste

Acoustic Guitar, Associated Performer: DOE

Guitar, Associated Performer, Alto Saxophone, Background Vocal, Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Composer, Mixing Engineer, Producer, Wurlitzer Piano: Jon Batiste

Drums: Alvin Ford

Electric Bass Guitar: Michael Batiste

Electric Guitar, Synthesizer: Max Townsley

Background Vocal: Kimberly Thomas

Background Vocal: Mia Jones

Background Vocal: Danelle Belt

Background Vocal: Shirley Hernandez

Background Vocal: Wendy Winn

Background Vocal: Jamiah Hudson

Background Vocal: Quintavious Johnson

Background Vocal: Ashley Johnson

Background Vocal: Sheldon Thomas

Background Vocal: Christian Walker

Background Vocal: Michael Walter

Background Vocal: Amos Evans

Background Vocal: Isiah Tatum

Background Vocal: Reuel Belt

Trumpet: Steve Patrick

Trumpet: Mike Haynes

Trumpet: Tyler Jaeger

Trombone: Barry Green

Trombone: Matt Jefferson

Composer: Dominique Jones

Editor, Mastering Engineer: Irvin Johnson

A& R Director: Carmen Walker

Recording Engineer: Aaron Dutton

Recording Engineer: Buckley Miller

Additional Engineer: Darren Blackensee

Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Kaleb Rollins

Recording Engineer: Drew Duggan

Additional Engineer, Editor: Darren Schneider

A Life Room Label/RCA Inspiration Release. (P) & © 2026 Provident Label Group LLC, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. ©

Lyrics and translation

Original

I imagine myself running my fingers through your hair.

You lay your head on my chest and lay your heart bare.

You tell me where it hurts, baby, don't, don't hold it.

Baby, your tears are manly.

Baby, your tears are manly.

I imagine myself looking so deep into your eyes, the midnight oil of melanin no longer despised.

I tell you you're enough the way you are, you're enough.

And baby, your pain is human.

Baby, your pain is human.

And if I ever, ever get to love a Black boy, I'll forever, ever give him love, give him love. If I'm ever, ever blessed to love a

Black boy, I'll forever tell him, "You're enough, you're enough. "

As my fingers trace the narrative written in your scars, the journey that you carried alone is now ours.

I sing out for your pain when it hurts so deep.

Baby, you are my glory.

Baby, you are my glory.

And if I ever, ever get to love a Black boy,

I'll forever, ever give him love, give him love. Oh, and if

I'm ever, oh yeah, oh, I'll forever tell him, "You're enough.

" Hey, and I need you to know, -Black boy. -I see your struggle.

-I said I need you to know. -I see your whisper, I see your prayer.

-Oh, I need you to know.

-I'll be your shoulder, come hold me -tight. -In the rise and in the fall.

-Ohhh!

-I see -your fear, I see your struggle. -I see you.

-I see your whisper, I see your prayer. -I need you to know that I, I see you.

-I'll be your shoulder. -Ooh, and in the rise. . .

-In the fall. -Ooh, ooh,

Black boy, I see you.

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