It's ya boy P, babe
I remember as a kid back, in the I got picked on, at, shit on, spit at Get gone, get back, smoke, get away a dark pigmentation was hard then to make friends
Felt like God didn't his time with me He musta made me late night, tired and life wasn't easy, they dogged me Said that I was so the bet, I could sweat coffee
And sweet tea and spit oil Say when ashy I lotion down in All Made me feel like a really lame of my complexion, nobody would include me in games
Not tag, never "It", nobody would touch me Nope no girlfriends shawties thought I was ugly Through all the jokes and laughs pokes and blows and jabs Hopin' sad, mad before the scabs nobody told me that
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I ain't have Gaye to sing to me And make me feel black was the thing to be Big Daddy Kane, I was so glad he came Made me feel good about bein' again 'cause
We was at the bottom of the Al B. made it was a problem to be dark skinned Until sniped him In with the darkies, out with the skinned
Now we got Taye and Tyson Phife in every movie ya likin' Blade he me of a modern day Panther While Batman hides behind a mask like a
We to achieve, 'Caine's killin' us it killed the second son of Adam and Eve Ya palm is and spreaded fist still black and tightly now Slappin' five was cool but ya ball ya fist and give me pound 'cause
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The blacker the berry, the sweeter the I say, the blacker the berry, the sweeter the I say, the blacker the berry, the the berry The blacker, the blacker, the blacker, the
Tiger say he ain't black, whatever They say Michael Jackson ain't white, And Venus and Serena done mo' white girls Than O.J. and Rick James put
Now Michael the new black hero Bet John ain't see it comin', saw a quarterback as a negro Jordan he can't hide it he look like an African leader If you can lighten him you can brighten me up
Now don't get me wrong and think I'm Listenin' to this song, I'm not As a matter of fact, out to Jamie Lori and Chad My white friends from Lee County to
Just dark is it what's like bein' white in the audience At a black comedy I Was to get cracked on and joked out Now ugly duckling is a swan, I know now
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the F.B.I.