letra de books a bout you (hisstory) - one be lo
back when all the light-skinned dudes was gettin’
so much attention
i was no competition
i was so young and different
the pretty lil girls
used to blow bubbalicious
no love for a black cat
they’re so superstitious
more like a black sheep
wooly fro when you pick it
jerri curl had a victim
i could show you some pictures
but still i had a little bit a confidence
alpha male dominance
bright smile
light brown eyes
my accomplice
cruel jokes might distract’em from the compliments but
i’m soo cool
she attracted to the opposite
i didn’t know about the power of black people
cuz christopher columbus was a textbook hero
he was a textbook hero
and we know
i shoulda knew more about malcolm
but we only read a chapter
and pictures of the africans in national geographic
was makin’ me embarrased
other kids had laughter
from savage to a slave
inferior to a master
my teacher didn’t say it
but from what i had gathered
the europeans had the biggest impact
on world matters
money, power, respect!
we heard about the characters
all about the franklins
not about the bannekers
i guess you could say
the benjamins
like kim and them
blond hair
blue eyes
nose jobs
resemble them
really wish mike could take it
back to ben again
he said
“it didn’t matter if black or white, the skin you in”
see i agree
if you keep it in context
but jesus painted white
gave my people the complex
and still we’re eager for progress
even though the man
shot king in the process
yo
i’m older now
maybe fourteen
fifteen
started learning black history
from emcee’s
portier
cosby
and colon powell
were nice dudes
but i relate more to
rakim and ice cube
and other rappers had african medallions
i didn’t know the meaning
but i knew i had to have one
and so i grabbed one
and put it
it’s on like
it’s like
it’s like black y’all
i say it loud
cuz i’m proud to be dat y’all
my people do great things
and that’s a fact y’all
and we can do more than rap
and play basketball
now check it
i ain’t teaching y’all to hate white
‘cuz thinking one color’s better than another
yo that ain’t right
i’m just trynna shed some daylight
larry bird had a j
but mike taught me how to take flight
now black kids wanna pay mo’ price
to stay way mo’ fly
but it’s way mo’ to life
you can even ask the asian kid who made lo’s nikes
workin in a sweatshop
as the day go by
knowledge
will give you way more power than say austin
them textbooks you’re readin’ in schools
just take caution
no offense
to mark twain
and all them
shakespeare plays today
remain awesome
but what about langston hughes
james baldwin
alex haley watered the roots
became a forest
and now i’m embarrassed
to say i was embarrassed
of them africans
standing in a beautiful portrait
they say “the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice”
i had to love my self
so i could even love you
you
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