Kidd Saturday - Brown Bag (feat. Kindal Tate & Not Shakespeare) Lyrics

You
You
I see you
You

Look at me
Y'all can't even stomach the notion
Swallow my pride
You ever try to swallow the ocean
Hollow inside
I'll hollow tip your thought in the open
Follow the light
Don't ever try to lighten your face
Darker the better
Beauty is not something enslaved
Browner the bag
To backyard
Eating good in the shade
I saw the fruit that they craved
We set the beef on their plate
We found reflections in shade
And lost the reason to hate
We looking the same
The elephant has entered the room
I know it's too soon
Better if we cut at the source
I know we're the root
The future of the race was before
The talented tenth
89' boy
Been talented since
Yuh dig

100%
100%
I hear you
I get that
It's hard for everybody
But Im just more aware of my struggles
You know
As a black woman
As beautiful as I think that is
As magical as I think that is
I can't deny that
Sometimes that hate
It comes from home
It comes from our moms
It comes from our aunties
Do something with that little girls hair
What's wrong with my hair
It's nappy
It's afrocentric
It's black
It's the very thing that we hate
And it's crazy because
We expected everybody
To love and respect us
When we don't even love and respect ourselves
And to be real with you
That's kinda crazy