Mama You Never Told Me, Pt. 1
Is my blackness really that scary
That you fear me
Stare at me
Not even comparin' me
But you darin' me
See I got the degree
Athletic ability
Even been on TV
AT&T Park
Oakland Coliseum
Now this dude over here
Didn't know I was an engineer
18 years
18 years on that ship
Swirlin on that ship
Gotta forget that ship
See now that I flipped the script
And I'm on top of the ship
You a corporate tic tac
Getting fat on the system
You call capitalism
But I call systematic nepotism
You winnin' while standing
Others is runnin' but not moving
Now look they stoppin
They watchin'
They pausin'
You, me, we, Echo
Just changed the game
You ignorin' me
Non supportin' me
You give your dollar
Send your dollar
To Nike, Gucci
Even the new hippy yogi
But what about
Yo dreams
Yo life
Yo vision
And don't forget about me
I mean me as in community
You see
Group economics is the way
I see you
I am you
Just say ubuntu
We gon' fight together
We gon' struggle together
You winnin'
I'm smilin'
They losin'
You winnin'
I'm smilin'
They losin'
Now this dude over here
Tried to sick the dogs on me
In the process
They interrogated me
And found out more
Than they knew about me
That my resume
Was more profound
Than they was willin' to acknowledge
See what you don't understand
In this systematic
Oppressive
Monarch mind controlled
Abusive system
Is that you're double daring me
To oppose you
With the same resistance
You exhibit on me
But see you couldn't handle it
You'd actually feel
Manhandled by it
You'd scream harrassment
And you know what?
They
He
She
Might buy it
You say Obama
I say what about my Big Mama
You say gay rights
I say hmm can I be undercover?
See this blackness
You cannot hide or deny
But if I was incognito
Like Batman
Drop kickin' this multi-national
Monsanto man
This corporate ship
I am done man
You see it's as if your existence
Is a penance to indifference
It's as if your existence
Is a penance to indifference
See when you left here all alone
And brothers like me, him
Are long gone
You gon' really know
The world had it all wrong
You on that different tip
You like oppression, yep
Ignoring racism tip
Like Ferguson
Trayvon
Jordan
And Oscar, yep
Submit the same qualifications
On the resume
But the other dude gets hired, yep
It's not as simple as people make it seem, yo
I have been in the game
Now them black girls be rockin'
I got love for 'em
Cuz my mama and daddy taught me game
See I got love for 'em
Cuz my mama and daddy taught me game
Now you understandin' what I'm sayin'
This corporate ship
Ain't playin'
Mama you never told me
But you did tell me
Mama you never told me
But you did prepare me
That you fear me
Stare at me
Not even comparin' me
But you darin' me
See I got the degree
Athletic ability
Even been on TV
AT&T Park
Oakland Coliseum
Now this dude over here
Didn't know I was an engineer
18 years
18 years on that ship
Swirlin on that ship
Gotta forget that ship
See now that I flipped the script
And I'm on top of the ship
You a corporate tic tac
Getting fat on the system
You call capitalism
But I call systematic nepotism
You winnin' while standing
Others is runnin' but not moving
Now look they stoppin
They watchin'
They pausin'
You, me, we, Echo
Just changed the game
You ignorin' me
Non supportin' me
You give your dollar
Send your dollar
To Nike, Gucci
Even the new hippy yogi
But what about
Yo dreams
Yo life
Yo vision
And don't forget about me
I mean me as in community
You see
Group economics is the way
I see you
I am you
Just say ubuntu
We gon' fight together
We gon' struggle together
You winnin'
I'm smilin'
They losin'
You winnin'
I'm smilin'
They losin'
Now this dude over here
Tried to sick the dogs on me
In the process
They interrogated me
And found out more
Than they knew about me
That my resume
Was more profound
Than they was willin' to acknowledge
See what you don't understand
In this systematic
Oppressive
Monarch mind controlled
Abusive system
Is that you're double daring me
To oppose you
With the same resistance
You exhibit on me
But see you couldn't handle it
You'd actually feel
Manhandled by it
You'd scream harrassment
And you know what?
They
He
She
Might buy it
You say Obama
I say what about my Big Mama
You say gay rights
I say hmm can I be undercover?
See this blackness
You cannot hide or deny
But if I was incognito
Like Batman
Drop kickin' this multi-national
Monsanto man
This corporate ship
I am done man
You see it's as if your existence
Is a penance to indifference
It's as if your existence
Is a penance to indifference
See when you left here all alone
And brothers like me, him
Are long gone
You gon' really know
The world had it all wrong
You on that different tip
You like oppression, yep
Ignoring racism tip
Like Ferguson
Trayvon
Jordan
And Oscar, yep
Submit the same qualifications
On the resume
But the other dude gets hired, yep
It's not as simple as people make it seem, yo
I have been in the game
Now them black girls be rockin'
I got love for 'em
Cuz my mama and daddy taught me game
See I got love for 'em
Cuz my mama and daddy taught me game
Now you understandin' what I'm sayin'
This corporate ship
Ain't playin'
Mama you never told me
But you did tell me
Mama you never told me
But you did prepare me
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Writer(s): Damon Jerome Smith
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