Rich in Melanin

English translation

My skin is beautiful non removable

Yeah yeah

They emulate it with pharmaceuticals

Yeah yeah

My skin is one of kind, holy divine source

They hate it cuz when he made us he spent his time for us

I'm poor in wealth but rich in melanin yeah

It's hard to follow suite with no representative yeah

Black babies or crack babies both feel offended

Mix em both together we call that shit lightskinded

Repeated intrusive thoughts, i'm usually never at loss

For words

My skin is beautiful non refundable

See they way we grew up you would say that its quite dysfunctional

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Complexity in my skin, don't mean i can't call ya twin

Today

A wise man once said he knows nothin at all

At all, yeah

Places

I seen different places

Never switching faces

I've been rich in skin

Rich in skin

Rich in skin, no

I look thru my window

Knew just what i'm here for

I been rich in skin

Rich in skin

Rich in skin

My skin is traceable

My skin irreplaceable

Long way from apartheid

My nigga we all tied

Together like mob ties

Beretta's and guns fly

Forever and ever and ever

I can't explain it

It's contagious

Mood swings shift on

Daily basis

Thats where the remedy starts

Hope it don't rip you apart

I felt this way from the heart

Soon as I begin you depart

Does variation in cellular code

Show that im different than those

Don't make feelings involved

Let your ideas indulge

Claim my lack of intelligence is

Due to silver and twists

But the difference is

I know

Come take a look in my soul

I bet you stumble on gold, you know

A wise man once said

That i don't know shit

Matter fact i should plead the fifth

Kenfolk i've been

Places

I seen different places

Never switching up faces

I been rich in skin

Rich in skin

No, i look thru my window

Knew just what i'm here for

I been rich in skin

I'm rich in

I've

Been

Rich

In

My

Melanation its telling

I got this word straight from heaven

I heard this from father god

I promise you no facade

I done been up down all the roads

I been everywhere don't ya know

I been everywhere can't ya see

Like an effigy oughta be

My word profound in this

Know you hating the sound of this

400 years later

I know they didn't account for this here

I'm settled in my melanin it ain't a sin

To know that i been rich in my skin

My skin