Undercover Ghetto Girl
Got to keep it undercover
Otherwise they might discover, where I'm from
They think there's trouble, on our side of town
They already see my color
What's the point of acting subtle?
Etiquette's a losing battle when your skin is brown
Memorizing my thesaurus
Won't dismantle the abhorrent biases internalized
In every hostile frown
You think that I'm a monster
My mannered act is triggered
But who's the real monster?
For using words like nnnn-
Go ahead and colonize my speech
You know you wish you talked like me
Code switching wasn't so easy
I like who I am, I like how I speak
Unlucky for me, we live in a dog eat dog world
My homies in Harlem, y'all know what I mean
My baddies in Baltimore see what I see
Take the girl out the hood, but you can't take the hood out the girl
Last week I found myself infuriated
Using words I genuinely hated
Colonize my tongue professor
Just don't sue if my depression, causes me to set my dorm on fire
Monday, for me, Tuesday-
I'm the undercover ghetto girl
I don't recognize the sound of my own voice
Who am I?
I don't remember anymore
I'm not your undercover ghetto girl
The trouble with switching the shape of my jaw
Is ignorant people will still find a flaw
The problem with me is I'm still trying to earn their respect
Say everything right, and I might get the job
The years will go by, and still and the bottom
Climbing a ladder will not change the systems defects
Maybe this is their idea of proper
But I really feel like an impostor
Strategic or authentic?
The decision makes me frantic, either way still gonna gentrify my hood
Monday, for me, Tuesday-
I'm the undercover ghetto girl
I don't recognize the sound of my own voice
Who am I?
I don't remember anymore
I'm not your undercover ghetto-
Monday, (for me)
Tuesday, I'm the undercover ghetto girl
I don't recognize the sound of my own voice
Who am I?
I don't remember anymore
I'm not your undercover ghetto girl
Otherwise they might discover, where I'm from
They think there's trouble, on our side of town
They already see my color
What's the point of acting subtle?
Etiquette's a losing battle when your skin is brown
Memorizing my thesaurus
Won't dismantle the abhorrent biases internalized
In every hostile frown
You think that I'm a monster
My mannered act is triggered
But who's the real monster?
For using words like nnnn-
Go ahead and colonize my speech
You know you wish you talked like me
Code switching wasn't so easy
I like who I am, I like how I speak
Unlucky for me, we live in a dog eat dog world
My homies in Harlem, y'all know what I mean
My baddies in Baltimore see what I see
Take the girl out the hood, but you can't take the hood out the girl
Last week I found myself infuriated
Using words I genuinely hated
Colonize my tongue professor
Just don't sue if my depression, causes me to set my dorm on fire
Monday, for me, Tuesday-
I'm the undercover ghetto girl
I don't recognize the sound of my own voice
Who am I?
I don't remember anymore
I'm not your undercover ghetto girl
The trouble with switching the shape of my jaw
Is ignorant people will still find a flaw
The problem with me is I'm still trying to earn their respect
Say everything right, and I might get the job
The years will go by, and still and the bottom
Climbing a ladder will not change the systems defects
Maybe this is their idea of proper
But I really feel like an impostor
Strategic or authentic?
The decision makes me frantic, either way still gonna gentrify my hood
Monday, for me, Tuesday-
I'm the undercover ghetto girl
I don't recognize the sound of my own voice
Who am I?
I don't remember anymore
I'm not your undercover ghetto-
Monday, (for me)
Tuesday, I'm the undercover ghetto girl
I don't recognize the sound of my own voice
Who am I?
I don't remember anymore
I'm not your undercover ghetto girl
Credits
Writer(s): Dhaiti, Grace Victoria
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