Intro (Professor Medi):

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

Verse 1 (Price):

S-curls perms du-rags bonnets and stocking caps

Broke as s**t 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

Policе see us we ain’t on s**t still they gone stop and pat

Mе 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

S**t

We love to be CLRD

Interlude (Price):

I appreciate y'all for lending me y'all spirits for

For this little second you dig

Verse 2 (Price):

In the ghetto

B***h

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 divideus 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

Outro (Price):

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