| My dark skin been through the shackle of the chain, way before Barack got to
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| talkin' 'bout change
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| School textbook only talk about King, they don’t wanna bring up Ms. Davis
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| Swear the Uncle Tom, only Abraham saved us. |
| 15 when I first seen police anger
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| Back when LA had Raiders be the king in the street. |
| Before R.E. |
| King Supreme on
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| beat
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| Media tried to glorify rap beef between two kings from the west and the east
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| Malcolm X vs. Martin. |
| Dubois vs. Booker T
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| Black on black wars even back then. |
| I hope it’s love when you look at me
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| My dark skin petrify the sights of the eyes, can’t see us in the lows with they
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| eyes closed
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| They see us as the pimps, they see us as the hoes
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| No Oscar for X, but the Training Day role
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| Now that’s cinematic. |
| Black skin is tragic
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| Benefiting from eye moving backwards
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| Backwoods where the noose ain’t long ago. |
| Come so far, so far to go
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| I love being me, want y’all to know. |
| So much to teach Zeke and Jojo
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| My two princes, my two senses gonna be embedded minus the edit
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| So they can have a true history lesson on record. |
| Disagree, just respect it
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| My dark skin, ripped by the switch and the cord
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| The good book talk about Jesus our lord
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| Portraits y’all adored. |
| Pictures of Saint Nicholas ridiculous
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| We ain’t go no damn chimney and no M.O.N.E
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| While Christmas missed us, my dark skin pinched pennies
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| Tryna make sense of this country’s patience of giving just due to many will a
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| few
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| By few I mean you, the elite who spew hatred at the sight of my hue.
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| My dark skin |