Pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
You, pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
You, pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
This one right here for all my Dark Skin Girls
Back handed compliments, In the land where it's obvious, that
Black skin is not popular, it weigh in on my confidence
And if inside I feel, like Kaepernick and I kneel
Or wear my pride for the healin', You feel that its ob-no-xious
For-get what you say, I'm filled with the opulence
No more time can I waste, I don't care bout' Your comments
Im'a wear my black like its diamonds, I'm aware My blackness is shining
I'ma wear out Your racist thinking, with My confidence, in due timin'
Im'a set myself up a monument, obelisk, to remind me
That your opinion of Me, could never be the truth about Me
I'm black, the truth about Me, My skin, the beauties on it, and yea
The booty's on Me, My hair come kinky won't comb it...
Just to fit in your culture, because it is bogus
And since, Mine's was erased, Im'a carry myself like FLOTUS
Specifically Michelle, cant You tell, I no longer care
If you notice, (Notice, Notice)
I'm buildin' up my pride, deep inside, now
Kinky hair, I wear, I won't fry it now
It's Your opinion, that need to lie down
It's Your opinion that need to die now (Die now)
Pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
You, pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
You, pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
This one right here for all my Dark Skin Girls
Pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
You, pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
You, pretty for a Dark Skin Girl
This one right here for all my Dark Skin Girls
As kids, the jokes that we practiced, they poked at our blackness
Invoked by our masters, until our own promotin' the damage, I can't breathe
Choked out and famished, managed to choke out our culture
Morals they vanished and then turned us to savage (Uh)
First degrade a man, put self hate in a man
Watch his demise, watch him despise and start to hate his women
A nation divided can't stand, that's why they divide up the fam'
No excuse for it, but I apologize when us men
Go embrace lighter skin, cause we're not comfortable in
Our very own complexion, so we make you feel less than
And we seek out perfection in sisters, with less melanin
Somehow we feel it will fulfill the void, that lives deep within
You see a, tainted perception, is the deadliest weapon
We gotta, change our perception, and be free from depression
Don't let the, chains of oppression, make you feel that she less than
You see the, darker the skin, it's just the richer the blessin'