Released: October 16, 2001

Featuring: Eve Alicia Keys

Songwriter: Eve Angie Stone Jerry Beach Bobby Ozuna Glenn Standridge Harold Lilly Raphael Saadiq

Producer: Raphael Saadiq

[Intro: Angie Stone & Alicia Keys]
Alicia Keys on the remix
Roll with Collangi for life (Yeah, ha, ha)
Alicia (Say what, Angie?)
Eve (Come on, Angie)
Roll with a sista for a brotha (O.K.)

[Verse 1: Angie Stone & Alicia Keys]
He is my king, he is my one, my father, my son
He understands just what I am, he's my man
I'm here to show ya nuthin' but love for ya
Let a sista glow you
My brotha, brotha, brotha, brotha
He's my support system, he likes his soul sista
And I can't live without him
I love his lips, his kiss, his touch and his smile
That love is legendary, his love is necessary
I want him with me daily
I just want the world to know about my...

[Chorus: Both]
Black brotha, strong brotha, my brotha, I love ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Black brotha, here for ya
There's only one above ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha

[Verse 2: Angie Stone & Alicia Keys]
Misunderstood, up to no good, around the hood
Some say this but they don't know shit about my man
Fo yo' information, lot's of education, that of a situation
Brothas, brothas gonna show you
He's my support system, he likes his soul sista
And I can't live without him (can't live without him)
That love is legendary, his love is necessary
I want him with me daily
You better believe, uh ah ha

[Chorus: Both]
Black brotha, strong brotha, my brotha, I love ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha brotha
Black brotha, here for ya
There's only one above ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha brotha

[Bridge: Eve]
Come on, yo!
I'm a hold down my soldier, weight of the world on his shoulders
Be real who else gon hold the
Call in my heartbeat, make my soul weak
'Course I'll never leave speak in tongues when he rolls deep
All I need is him, how he pull me in?
Rough and rugged daddy do me right no refusin him
Some they like to call him criminal cause of his style
Hustler, caged by the world so he live wild
Gotta stay strong cause we they backbone
And if a chicken try to creep then your coop she get slapped on
It's the reality, what's mine is mine
And look but don't touch until I resign and
Everything I need in him, I fiend for him
Fights the heavy knight, see the way I adore him
He never go nowhere without her, he gotta keep her
This is a dedication for me Angie and Alicia to my

[Chorus: Both]
Black brotha, strong brotha, my brotha, I love ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Black brotha, here for ya
There's only one above ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Black brotha, strong brotha
My brotha I love ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Black brotha, here for ya
There's only one above ya
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha
Clap your hands, clap your hands
For your brotha, brotha

Angie Stone

Angie Stone is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. She has been most successful on the R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, including a number one album, and ten singles, including a Top 10. She has sold over 1.4 millions albums in the U.S. and over 5 millions albums worldwide.

Stone was born in Columbia, South Carolina, where she began singing gospel music at First Nazareth Baptist Church, under the leadership of Reverend Blakely N. Scott. She has a daughter and son. Her daughter Diamond (born 1984) is from her marriage to Rodney Stone (also known as Lil' Rodney C!, from the hip hop group Funky Four Plus One). Diamond contributed background vocals to her 2007 song “Baby”. Diamond and gave birth to Stone’s grandson in 2008. During the 1990s Stone dated neo soul singer D'Angelo. Their son Michael was born in 1998. Stone lives in Atlanta, Georgia with Michael and fiancé Ashanti, an airline auditor who has two children of his own.