Brown Guys - Talib Kweli, Styles P

I am a brown guy

But don’t call me nigga, please

Nigga please, you see that white boy, that’s a nigga b

Nigga ain’t a color, it’s a mindstate, you diggin' me?

Maybe not, I get it tho

But all them white boys blowin' weed they some niggas too

The difference is they got white privileges

Cops will kill me but I doubt that they kill 'em too

This ain’t a stab or a jab

But I’m feeling kinda mad they ain’t treated like a villain too

His weed is good as mine, his gun bigger than mine

And he motherfucking chilling too

Now if my color make you hate me then I hope you go blind

And can’t see what your children do

And that sound kinda harsh

But you would feel like I feel if you had black children too

Racism make you sayin' and I shoulda have your man

Sittin' there with the sick face

A dickface, you a dickhead

And what you gonna to with all the people from a mixed race

America is a sick place (you know)

But we paint it to be good

This is big city talk that we spreadin' worldwide

Coming from a humble nigga coming out a poor hood, ghost

Styles P, Talib Kweli, The Seven

Life of a brown guy

Travel 'round the would with the name of a Muslim man

Now there are some up- and some downsides

The downside is niggas get their spinal cord shattered in police vans

I ain’t a Muslim but my friends is

Grew up Christian now I’m sorta spiritual I know it’s cliché

I see colors in the music

We switch it up, you see the gods mix it up like a DJ

You say you’re hating based on race, huh

And that you’re colorblind and you like Hip-Hop

Like that’s some kind of call like you can’t get punched in the face, huh

That’s why the Hindus and the Sikhs being abused by Islamophobes

Extremism is ugly no matter what or where

People who don’t believe in God kill all the time

The Bible more violent than the Quran, you see what’s in there?

Ain’t no belief system got a monopoly on all the crime

I judge a man by his actions and by his enemies

But they don’t show themselves without a good reason

This ain’t a TV show, nigga

They think they know the hood cause they seen 'The Wire', the good seasons

I don’t need your sympathy

I don’t need your empathy your opinion is not required here

That’s why you’re hidin' on the Internet

'Cause all that 'Nigga'-shit you’re writin' will probably get you fired, yeah

Fucked up, too