| I did my best
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| But I guess my best wasn’t good enough
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| Your pretty Pinterest board ran out of Spackle
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| And we allowed Adidas to market shoes with shackles
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| I wish I was more like Gus Haynes
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| Sticking it to the white man through all of my gut pains
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| You’re a white supremacist if you wonder what country Obama was birthed in
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| And went all through high school never reading Zora Neale Hurston (what?)
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| I promise, I’ll be as pompous as I want to be
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| And exploit affirmative action to cash in on this Bachelor’s degree
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| I’m going to write some gibberish and call it «ethnic fiction»
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| Right after I start an all-black cribbage league
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| Our club mascot is Huey Newton’s ashy knee
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| We’re repping meta postmodernity
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| Until my home is burdened by non-functional furnishings
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| I got hair like a pad of Brillo
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| And date girls whose dad could be Don DeLillo
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| What’s the price on my dignity plus damages
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| Inflicted on my self esteem through ignorance and ham sandwiches?
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| You’ll need a larger hedonic calculator
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| The only black fantasy characters are always grouchy satyrs
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| I’m in an alley shouting lines from the Crito
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| Pages stained red from all these flaming hot Cheetos
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| In my computer chair with a face full of yolk strands
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| Frantically searching the internet for all-brown folk bands
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| Couldn’t get signed because my areolae aren’t heart-shaped
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| Well, that’s certainly a dark fate
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| No worries, there’s still hope for me
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| My pan-African hoodie reeks of cocoa butter and potpourri
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| Yea, you just downloaded the red herring 1000
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| The black opinion splicer, the Donna Karan of pun jousting
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| So white tycoons sip on baby blood and a caligula making up
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| My crazy duds are straight Baron Münchhausen
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| Oh what my wooly mane, it filters poison out the gentle breeze
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| Applaud me as I dunk hoops, my sub-group has special needs
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| Yep, marginalized to the fever pitch
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| These Eldridge Cleaver baby tees are a far cry from leadership
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| But it’s so legit, here’s your ideological punched card
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| You might need a modicum of under arm
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| Deodorant, take this black cobra hiss
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| Oh you think I like to protest? |
| Do you think I’m pro-rich?
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| Oh, well I guess I’m black, I just didn’t think that you noticed
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| Your quiet disdain for black males makes me motion sick
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| That’s why I’m a sourpuss, swag stays on our books
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| Hunched over a power book I’m posting pics of my swollen prick
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| Against exposed brick
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| A colored whore for hire
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| Trapped like a goldfish
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| Oh my lungs, they’re two atavistic steamboats
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| Filled with negroe spirituals and a sweet cream for that brioche
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| And I guess you’re right man my weed’s rich in chlorophyll
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| My ejaculate is cornmeal and my diploma is an orange peel
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| And my sense of rhythm acts like a force field
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| Protecting me from you, or you from me
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| (Tone it down, 'driver)
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| What’s that in your gun holster?
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| Oh this is the de-negro-tiser
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| I shoot myself with it until I’m whiter than Peter Piper
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| Now I’ll be able to bow before a world leaders mitre
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| And tell them the shackles on my Adidas sneakers need to be tighter
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| Cause right now man, I’m free like a zebra in Zaire
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| So I’ll hop in a time machine to have my lineage wiped clean
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| And I’ll entertain yuppies as they buy tight jeans and thai cuisine
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| Gus Haynes
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| I did my best
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| But I guess my best wasn’t good enough
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| I be in the club draped in BUFU
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| Throwing hexes, voodoo
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| Black magic, juju
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| That’s why I ain’t mad when they watch the throne
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| Go ahead and let Waka Flocka dip his Glock in chrome
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| Make an interviewer call me Bruce Wavy like I’m Max B
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| No doubt I’ve read more Nietzsche than what they’ve asked of me
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| But these bastards will make a plaster cast of me
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| Guy Fieri-narrated biopic of Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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| In my utopia Nu Gingrich is an illegal foreigner
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| Diners, drive-ins and dives |