Black Hypocrisy

[00:03.13] It's not what you expect me to say
[00:10.12] But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway
[00:13.75] ('Cause) I was told I would reach further
[00:18.61] If the colour of mi skin was lighter
[00:21.70] And I was made to feel inferior
[00:24.22] Cah society seh brown girls prettier
[00:27.23] Mi love the way mi look
[00:28.53] Mi love mi pretty black skin
[00:30.50] Respect due to mi strong melanin
[00:33.39] Proud of mi colour, love the skin that I'm in
[00:36.57] Bun racism, demolish colourism
[00:39.56] But the things weh mi a go seh
[00:40.80] Yuh might not even have mi back
[00:42.44] I get hate from my own race
[00:44.34] Yes, that's a fact
[00:45.76] 'Cause the same black people dem seh I'm too black
[00:48.79] And if yuh bleach out yuh skin dem same one come a chat
[00:51.88] Well, since yuh seh that I'm too black for you
[00:55.31] I'll please yuh, do I look how you want me to?
[00:58.20] Now I'm gonna see if you gonna say I'm too black for you
[01:01.57] Or do I look pretty to you?
[01:04.54] Black people hypocrisy
[01:07.60] Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
[01:10.40] Unu gwaan like seh yuh haffi brown fi pretty
[01:13.34] Fuck di whole of dem dirty inequity
[01:16.21] Dis a black people hypocrisy
[01:19.96] Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
[01:22.79] I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty
[01:25.78] Fuck the whole of dem dirty inequity
[01:28.69] Dem seh mi black til mi shine, til mi look dirty
[01:31.64] And it's the only line in life that will ever hurt me
[01:34.81] Because it never come from a Caucasian, trust mi
[01:37.91] Dis a black colorism big hypocrisy
[01:41.20] So if I wake up tomorrow look like a browning, oh!
[01:44.21] Automatically mi would a carry di swing
[01:47.32] Nuff a unnuh nah go like di song yah mi sing
[01:50.21] Because nuff a unnuh guilty fi di same damn thing
[01:53.13] What's your perception of a pretty woman
[01:56.65] Is it straight nose with her hair well long?
[01:59.41] Black girls lose self-confident
[02:02.53] Cause they attach the word "ugly" to our complexion
[02:05.52] Well, since yuh seh that I'm too black for you
[02:09.25] I'll please yuh, do I look how you want me to?
[02:12.13] Now I'm gonna see if you gonna say I'm too black for you
[02:15.67] Or do I look pretty to you?
[02:18.50] Black people hypocrisy
[02:21.60] Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
[02:24.26] Unu gwaan like seh yuh haffi brown fi pretty
[02:27.08] Fuck di whole of dem dirty inequity
[02:30.20] Dis a black people hypocrisy
[02:33.86] Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
[02:36.65] I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty
[02:39.45] Fuck the whole of dem dirty inequity
[02:42.45] (It's not what you expect me to say
[02:49.25] But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway)
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