Chords for Spice - Black Hypocrisy (Official Video)

I had a dream that one day black women will start supporting each other rather than bashing each other. _ _
_ _ _ Ladies, never forget that you are beautiful, lovely, attractive, courageous and kind.
I am dripping melanin with honey.
I'm black without a pudge.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ You expect me to [Am] say, _ [Dm] _ [Am] but I'ma go ahead [Dm] and say it anyway.
_ I was told I [Am] would reach further [Dm] if the color of [Am] my skin was lighter.
[Dm] And I was made to [Am] feel inferior, [Dm] cause society say brown girls prettier.
Me love the way me look, me love [Am] me pretty black skin.
[Dm]
Respect you to [Am] me strong melanin.
[Dm] Brother, me color love [Am] the skin that I'm in.
[Dm] Con race it in the mali colorism.
But the things weh me a go say you might [Am] not even laugh me back.
I [Dm] get hate from my own [Am] race, yes that's a fact.
Cause [Dm] the same black people dem [Am] say I'm too black.
And if [Dm] you bleach out your skin dem say me want come a chat.
Well, since you say [Am] that I'm too black for [Dm] you.
I please you, do [Am] I look how you want me to?
[Dm] Now I'm gonna see if you [Am] gonna say I'm too brown for [Dm] you.
Or do I look pretty to you?
Black people [Am] hypocrisy.
[Dm] Leave the girls dem [Am] with low self-esteem.
Who [Dm] no go on like say you a [Am] fi brown fi pretty.
[Dm] Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity.
This a black people [Am] hypocrisy.
[Dm] Leave the girls dem [Am] with low self-esteem.
[Dm] I'm black and beautiful, [Am] I know I'm pretty.
[Dm] Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity.
Dem say me black till me shine, till [Am] me look dirty.
And it's [Dm] the only line in life that [Am] weh ever hurt me.
Because [Dm] it never come from a [Am] Caucasian, trust me.
This [Dm] a black colorism, behavior crossy.
So if I wake up tomorrow look [Am] like a woman.
[Dm] Oh, automatically mood [Am] a carry the swing.
[Dm] No foul no no gonna [Am] let me sing.
Because [Dm] I no found no guilty fi the same damn thing.
What's your perception [Am] of a pretty woman?
Is [Dm] it straight nose with [Am] her hair weh long?
[Dm] Black girls lose self [Am]-confidence.
Cause they [Dm] attach the word ugly to her complexion.
Well, since you say that I'm too black for [Dm] you.
I please you, do [Am] I look how you want me to?
[Dm] Now I'm gonna see if you're gonna [Am] say I'm too brown for [Dm] you.
Or do I look pretty to you?
Black people [Am] hypocrisy.
Leave the girls dem [Am] with low self-esteem.
[Dm] Unno gwaan like say you a [Am] fi brown fi pretty.
[Dm] Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity.
This a black people hypocrisy.
[Dm] Leave the girls dem [Am] with low self-esteem.
[Dm] I'm black and beautiful [Am] and now I'm pretty.
[Dm] Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity.
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