Black Hypocrisy

It’s not what you expect me to say

But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway

(Cause) I was told I would reach further

If the color of my skin was lighter

And I was made to feel inferior

'Cause society seh brown girls prettier

Mi Love the way mi look

Mi love mi pretty black skin

Respect due to mi strong melanin

Proud of mi color, love the skin that I’m in

Bun racism, demolish colourism

But the things weh mi ago say you might not even have mi back

I get hate from my own race

Yes, that’s a fact

'Cause the same black people dem say I’m too black

And if you bleach out yuh skin dem same one come chat

Well, since you say that I’m too black for you

I please, yuh, do I look how you want me to?

Now I’m gonna see if your gonna seh I’m too black for you

Or do I look pretty to you?

Black people hypocrisy

Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem

Unu gwaan like seh yu haffi brown fi pretty

Fuck di whole of dem dirty inequity

Dis a black people hypocrisy

Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem

I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty

Fuck the whole of dem dirty inequity

Then say mi black til mi shine, til mi look dirty

And it’s the only line in life that will ever hurt me

Because it never come from a Caucasian, trust mi

Dis a black colorism big hypocrisy

So if I wake up tomorrow look like a browning, oh!

Automatically mi would carry di swing

Nuff a unnah hah go like di song yah mi sing

Because nuff a unnuh guilty fi di same damn thing

What’s your perception of a pretty woman (Tell me)

Is it straight nose with hair well long? (Tell me)

Black girls lose self-confident

Cause they attach the word "ugly" to our complexion

Well, since you say that I’m too black for you

I'll please yuh, do I look how you want me to?

Now I'm gonna see if you gonna say I'm too black for you

Or do I look pretty to you?

Black people hypocrisy

Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem

Unu gwaan like seh yuh haffi brown fi pretty

Fuck di whole of dem dirty inequity

Dis a black people hypocrisy

Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem

I'm black and beautiful, I know I'm pretty

Fuck the whole of dem dirty inequity

(It's not what you expect me to say

But I'mma go ahead and say it anyway)