In Women Colour - Haviah Mighty

If I was taller, you would run from me huh

If I wasn’t balling I couldn’t be your cup of tea huh

I mean, what if I wasn’t somebody huh

Since rapping makes you so uncomfortable huh

You’d never actually fuck me huh

They used to say I’m too loud, but that’s cool now

Love my skin, always been proud, guess that’s in now

They used to say I’m too black, with that crude rap

And I courier the boom bap over new trap

Hmm, we’re in your maze

Before they called us monkey niggas

Where are those days?

That cotton picking fucking wit em'

Where are those slaves?

I want em' on the rise like varicose veins

Hmm, yeah I’m darker than my friends

And finally they see it and they start to get the trend

I gotta do 2 times more to get 4 times less

But it’s cool ‘cause I’m sharper in the end

Still, let’s talk about it

About the fact I got commercial appeal

So ultimately, it’s the dollars that be turning the wheel

Most my homies, they want gold and not that surgical steel

They wanna make more than we currently will

I mean I get it, I’m trying to stack stack stack

All of the coin coin coin

I love that I’m black black black

So fuck all that noise noise noise

Boing boing boing

Lady parts but I’m fierce

This a daily dart from my fears

Issa lazy start from my peers

Imma pave a pond with my tears

I gotta interrupt the service

I gotta switch it up, I gotta think above the surface

They dropping they change, I’m picking up the purses

History deserted, huh

You think I’m proud to be associated with you

I don’t need shit

And most importantly I don’t need you

Need you …

All my life I hung with the man dem

Yeah — sometimes they gotta let you know that you different, I used to

Point guard, set the play on some ball shit

Poised tall, 7th grade, still a small shrimp

We was running, we was shooting and um

This one boy was moving ruder than he usually does

At one point, he threw my ball over my reach

I’m talking way down the street, like 45 feet

I fucking stepped, like is you serious nigga

This ain’t the end, there ain’t no period nigga

This is a mess, I ain’t inferior nigga

Bruh I stepped to him cleanly

So he cuffed by the neck and he beat me

I shrug about it now

Its just my struggle with the power divide

Cause even as little kids, he told me with his hand around me

That all the other boys don’t never wanna hang around me

And they don’t fuck with tom boys, it’s a squad of small boys

He was swinging hard like I ain’t have my dad around me

Like I ain’t always have my sisters and my fam around me

Side eye how them niggas used to act around me

Looking back, I ain’t have a fat ass around me

Still I levelled up, I always had that ladder round me

Now I’m rocking big stages and they gather round me

I got nothing but them groupies and them fans around me

Oh say can you see by the dawns early light that I’m proud like the star

spangled banner round me

Shorty gloss like that laquer ‘round me

More a boss than the mans around me

Lil nigga couldn’t shake me

Lil nigga couldn’t break me

Nah

Lil nigga couldn’t shake me

Lil nigga couldn’t break me