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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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It's quite a spectacle to see us land |
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In waste receptacles as if we've planned it |
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We're never skeptical when we get branded |
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Then disrespectful cause we feel abandoned |
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The height of mediocrity is the challenge |
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Crawling through the entrails of imbalance |
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We learn to like to be the heroes |
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We learn to lie to the brand name Negroes |
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We learn to laugh to avoid being angry |
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We learn to kill and learn to go hungry |
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We learn not to feel, for protection |
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And we learn to flaunt when we get an erection |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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We're born believing we're greater than circumstance |
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Infinitely stronger than chance as our first breath is handed |
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We taste the double standard the need to wear the mask |
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And with society's nurturing the psychic plastic |
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Surgery begins to take effect as our souls watch astounded |
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Our characters flounder duplicitous identity |
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Diction and contradiction have become the skills of assimilation |
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Razor honed to perfection from the moment of creation |
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It's gone from identity crisis to survival slingshot to rifle |
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Sin to revival try to get looked at but not poked in the eyeball |
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Warned of our impurities afraid of insecurities |
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Real life experts of the artificial athletes and entertainers |
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Have become the minstrels on commercials |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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On screen or off we can be rented to perform any feat |
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Positive or negative attention is viewed as success |
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U.S.D.A. African American Beef is seen as progress |
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We never ask ourselves too many questions |
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Too much truth in introspection |
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Maintain the regimentation and avoid self-degradation |
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We act out all the stereotypes try to use them as decoy |
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And we become shining examples of the system we set out to destroy |
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'Cause even in the most radical groups you will find |
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That when you stray from the doctrine you'll see hard times |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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Being kicked in the mouth or smiling with no teeth |
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They're both choices, yes but it's impossible to eat |
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Uneducated, underdeveloped undisciplined but mostly unaware |
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We join the flavor of the month club, we swallow the flavor of the month |
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Well holding our crotch was the flavor of the month |
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Bitch this bitch that was the flavor of the month |
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Being a thug was the flavor of the month |
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Then no to drugs was the flavor of the month |
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Kangol was the flavor of the month |
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Rope gold was the flavor of the month |
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Adidas shoes was the flavor of the month |
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Then bashing Jews was the flavor of the month |
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Gentrification was the flavor of the month |
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Isolation was the flavor of the month |
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My pockets are so empty I can feel my testicles |
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'Cause I spent all my money on some plastic |
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African necklaces and I still don't know what the colors mean |
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Red, black and green |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |
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What will we do to become famous and dandy |
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Just like Amos 'n' Andy? |