Blackboy

And I was told in school I was a fool and money, I'd never gain none

But I used my flow as a tool, they was cruel

Said I'd be no rapper, but I did work and became one

Now it's a cryin' shame, I'm buyin' things and they got debts they got to pay back

I think I know why my teachers would look in my eye and say that

And whys that?

Cause I'm a Blackboy

Came from nothing, don't mean my life means nothin'

Made it out the game through the pain and sufferin'

Yall don't think I see them purses yall clutchin? (I do)

See I'm a Blackboy

Scared when you see me, frauds disappear like a genie

Little white-boys want to be me

But you don't want to go through What I go through

True definition of a Blackboy

It must be the way that my pants sag

Or the sparklin' diamonds on the watch my left hand has

I know my appearance is looking like I am bad

In your department store all I wanna do is pop a damn tag

Made it honest, that's why the blacks get mad at you

Even foreigners shop and got big gratitude

I make more than you, but you got the attitude

Like I can't be shoppin' at Saks Fifth Avenue

I'm just tryin' to buy my baby some creed spring flower

But they don't know that the Tecca Nina cheese means power

So they look at me like none of my breed brings valor

Thats why when you see us in passing we seem sour

Last time I checked, my power shockeras

I was on top of the indy charts and not a slotera

But I'm the author of darkness and I like the opera

So why when I'm at Macbeth they wont treat me more propera?

Frontline, shoot, soldiers represent that

Frontline, shoot, Grand Verb, it's the snatch back

Head wrapped in the desert, boombox on the camel back

Escape from the clone lab, fugitives spook black

With finesse in you, its the knowledge from way back

The prophet of the page don't eat right till it all cracks

Blackboy rappin' from the pages torn

Street scriptures more classic than the Jimmy Cracked Corn

A spawn of the movement, keep the music movement

So my purpose stays clear and my music stays groovin'

I do it for the real, I don't need Jena Six

For me to know America is still on that bullshit

So people think that black are just ball players and singers

That massa complex is what fuels the street bangers

And street soldiers to stand up

No choice to get it right, so these Blackboys can finally get they man up

I'm a Blackboy and always gettin' underestimated

But when I move next door, I know you hate it

You had my whole family investigated

And when they didn't find no crack, you said I ate it

Uh-uh, a motherfucker just elevated

Over ghetto life that was designated

You see this Blackboy, you know heaven made it

I don't want to go if I got to integrate it

You know pellot boy, be happy you made it

Just take what you got, and stop complainin'

OK, weather man will stop the rainin'

On my people head, and start explainin'

What your people said, believe in the bible

But you still act barbaric and psycho

My name is Ice Cube, bitch, it ain't Michael

I'll never bleach my own skin just to be like you