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von Price

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

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.

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

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