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Brother
I try to hold some hope in my heart* For these African youths Coming up where I'm from Many traps to elude Surrounded by Mostly white and affluent dudes And somehow, you expected to have Mastered this smooth Swagger and move With the right walk, the right talk Fashion and crews Souls subtly attacked and abused And whats funny's being black wasn't cool Where I'm from til suddenly you started hearing rap in the school Hallways Admist this madness I grew With knack for amusing through this little skill For rappin at dudes An' we all like to laugh at the truth But when you young and same facts Pertain to who you rappin em to Well, I opted not to bring That to the booth But after a while, it sort of starts naggin at you The crazed infatuation with blackness That trash that gets viewed And the fact that the tube only showed blacks Actin the fool and I was watching...
(saturated with negative images and a limited range of Possibilities is strange...)
And its sad cuz that naturally do 更多更詳盡歌詞 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔鏡歌詞網 Sort of condition your mind and over time That's whats attractive to you So young blacks don't see themselves in Scholastic pursuits Or the more practical routes Its makin tracks or its hoops Or God-forbid movin packs for the loot Even with this music we so limited - its rap or produce And that narrow conception of whats black isn't true Of course, still we feel forced to adapt to this view Like theres something that youre havin to prove Now add that to the slew Of justification the capitalists use For the new blaxploitation Many actions excused In the name of getting cash That's adversely impactin our youth With mental slavery, the shackles is loose And its hard to cut chains when they attached at the roots So what the new black activists do For our freedom is just being them Do what youre passionate to Not confined by a sense that you have to disprove Any stereotypes, so-called facts to refute Or match any image of blackness They've established as true Perhaps we'll break thru the glass ceilings Shatter the roof and emerge From these boxes that they have us in cooped And grow to smash the bold that they casted of you I'll keep watching...
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