Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Smiling (Quirky Race Doc), artist - Open Mike Eagle. Album song Hella Personal Film Festival, in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 24.03.2016
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Mello
Song language: English
Smiling (Quirky Race Doc) |
It’s all fine and dandy when the show starts |
Before then, avoided like a ghost fart |
I get «what up"s and nods but for the most part |
Nobody smiles at me cause I’m a black man |
Until the show starts |
Before then, avoided like a ghost fart |
I get «what up"s and nods but for the most part |
Nobody smiles at me cause I’m a black man |
I know full well every white’s not a racist |
But every black man’s not a sex-crazed rapist |
I was good in the hood |
In college I was ruined |
While walking I assumed you acknowledge the other humans |
Try to walk big with my chin bone lifted up |
Overcompensating like I really don’t give a fuck |
Today I saw a lady say hi to a stranger |
Then avoid my eyes like I’m a white-person strangler |
Walking past voters in a democratic blocks that hit |
The windows and the automatic locks if not |
Reparations give me free black therapy |
And tell people you’re scared of them it makes them act scarily |
I don’t want you, your purse or you pocket book |
Them dumb yoga pants, boots or fur with the octopus |
Trust, I’m not trying to polish your toes |
Take your wallet and phone, or follow you home |
It’s all fine and dandy when the show starts |
Before then, avoided like a ghost fart |
I get «what up"s and nods but for the most part |
Nobody smiles at me cause I’m a black man |
Until the show starts |
Before then, avoided like a ghost fart |
I get «what up"s and nods but for the most part |
Nobody smiles at me cause I’m a black man |
And to the guys in the flip-flop squad |
Nobody needs your patronizing hip-hop nod |
Just be a person |
That’s the bottom line be a person |
And fuck the rhyme scheme this time just be a person |
And I can be a person too |
And we can be people |
Skip the validation and the need to feel equal |
The dominating culture gets to choose from many |
Modes of expression and reflection of the path that they done chose |
And my perception is froze |
Like a caveman lawyer advocating for myself |
While trying to seem dumber than I is |
Tired of thinking about this biz |
I’m just trying to build a bridge for my goddamn kid |
So the first time if ever his reputation slid |
It could actually be for something that he did |
It’s all fine and dandy when the show starts |
Before then, avoided like a ghost fart |
I get «what up"s and nods but for the most part |
Nobody smiles at me cause I’m a black man |
Until the show starts |
Before then, avoided like a ghost fart |
I get «what up"s and nods but for the most part |
Nobody smiles at me cause I’m a black man |
A hundred police wanna sing one song |
But only one gets the key |
When a hundred police wanna sing one song |
Somebody’s gotta intervene |
Now I’m not running for congress |
I got no platform or a plan |
But when a hundred police wanna sing one song |
All the people stop giving a damn |