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Students, Students, Students
 Take your seats
 Students take your-everyone take your seats
 I am Professor Medi and I will be your instructor this year
 For your color course
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 S-curls perms du-rags bonnets and stocking caps
 Broke as st but bet we get pay per view for that boxing match
 Got detached from school cause they never taught us the proper facts
 Or how survive how to go get it rips or them pocket taps
 Police see us we ain't on st still they gone stop and pat
 Me and all my niggas down most likely because my skin is brown but
 Me I take pride in all of this color and would too
 Once you find the truth and them lies get uncovered
 You get a real key to life when survive out the gutter
 You got your heart from your daddy and your eyes from your mother
 In the apartments it's water balloon fights in the summer
 Potatoes smothered it's either sugar or rice with the butter
 Back when all Joe was hearing is Stutters
 We was trying to get discovered
 Not realizing that it take timing and structure
 So Mama taught us about Kane and Abel early because the one thing in
 Life is jealousy that's dividing us brothers
 Double dutch double ups communion or double cups
 It's all just a list of tools they placed to trouble us
 Wide noses kinky hair plum lips and bubble butts
 In real life I'm truly in love with us
 Hot sauce with the dark meat found light on them dark streets
 Lay your head on my chest I bet you here these five heartbeats
 My son in the back dripping melanin in his car seat
 He say I love you and that's the moment that's when my heart free st
 We love to be CLRD.
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 I appreciate y'all for lending me y'all spirits for
 For this little second you dig
 In the ghetto bh I'm certified I got the proper steps
 Black man look inside the mirror I'm so Oscar Grant
 We ain't have no airbed we was sleeping on them pallets yeah
 Two bedroom apartment bet we treat it like a palace
 Pinochle, spades Auntie outside doing braids
 We inside playing the game
 Cuzzo outside making fades
 Uncle smoke dope but he the closest thing to Malcolm
 Closest thing to Moses wouldn't have got this far without him
 Hopscotch pawn shops we gone make greatness with what we got
 We gone make payments to get that drop
 CLRD to shame us they wanted to tame us
 But then we got famous and now we on top
 They tried to lie and say it was pop that was leading
 But they say the streaming we all been seeing
 That they been deceiving can't never believe them
 Shape up to shine and I don't need a reason
 Can't let them divide us can't let them vaccine us
 I miss my Granny's house it was the cleanest
 She performed miracles you should've seen
 With the aloe vera plant in the garden
 We might hit the swap meet for a bargain
 Call baby up late night watch Martin
 Music low when I'm parallel parking
 I love being colored
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 It's like that right there
 There ain't nothing you can say to ever bring me down
 I take it all
 I take it all and turn it into my greatness you dig
 You heard
 It's nothing they could do
 It's nothing that can stop you from being great
 Only thing that can stop you from being great is you and your mind