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one be lo - books a bout you (hisstory) lyrics

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back when all the light+skinned dudes was gettin’
so much attention
i was no competition
i was so young and different

the pretty lil girls
used to blow bubbalicious
no love for a black cat
they’re so superstitious

more like a black sheep
wooly fro when you pick it
jerri curl had a victim
i could show you some pictures

but still i had a little bit a confidence
alpha male dominance

bright smile
light brown eyes
my accomplice

cruel jokes might distract’em from the compliments but
i’m soo cool
she attracted to the opposite
i didn’t know about the power of black people
cuz christopher columbus was a textbook hero

he was a textbook hero

and we know

i shoulda knew more about malcolm
but we only read a chapter

and pictures of the africans in national geographic
was makin’ me embarrased
other kids had laughter

from savage to a slave
inferior to a master

my teacher didn’t say it
but from what i had gathered
the europeans had the biggest impact
on world matters

money, power, respect!
we heard about the characters

all about the franklins
not about the bannekers
i guess you could say
the benjamins
like kim and them

blond hair
blue eyes
nose jobs
resemble them

really wish mike could take it
back to ben again
he said
“it didn’t matter if black or white, the skin you in”

see i agree
if you keep it in context

but jesus painted white
gave my people the complex

and still we’re eager for progress

even though the man
shot king in the process

yo
i’m older now
maybe fourteen
fifteen
started learning black history
from emcee’s

portier
cosby
and colon powell
were nice dudes

but i relate more to
rakim and ice cube

and other rappers had african medallions
i didn’t know the meaning
but i knew i had to have one

and so i grabbed one
and put it
it’s on like

it’s like

it’s like black y’all

i say it loud
cuz i’m proud to be dat y’all

my people do great things
and that’s a fact y’all

and we can do more than rap
and play basketball
now check it

i ain’t teaching y’all to hate white
‘cuz thinking one color’s better than another
yo that ain’t right

i’m just trynna shed some daylight

larry bird had a j
but mike taught me how to take flight

now black kids wanna pay mo’ price

to stay way mo’ fly
but it’s way mo’ to life

you can even ask the asian kid who made lo’s nikes

workin in a sweatshop
as the day go by
knowledge

will give you way more power than say austin
them textbooks you’re readin’ in schools
just take caution

no offense
to mark twain
and all them
shakespeare plays today
remain awesome

but what about langston hughes
james baldwin

alex haley watered the roots
became a forest

and now i’m embarrassed
to say i was embarrassed
of them africans
standing in a beautiful portrait

they say “the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice”

i had to love my self
so i could even love you
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
you
you

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