[00:00:00] Color Lines - Watsky/Catch Wreck [00:00:24] Your first rap show posted in the back row [00:00:26] Of a sea of white kids bent on supermanning that hoe [00:00:29] Pretty soon you're buying fitted hats and high tops [00:00:32] Pretending that you're black enough and rapping with the lights off [00:00:35] It's like a cyclops with one closed eye [00:00:37] You can tell me that you're winking but the grin won't lie [00:00:40] And no mouth supplies what your skin tone hides [00:00:42] About a thousand miles south as the jim crow flies [00:00:46] And then we're playing he said she said [00:00:48] I see red when I peep a pink cheeked boston meathead [00:00:51] I wanna go Bruce Lee [00:00:53] When I see him on the T taking up two seats [00:00:56] And say "excuse me but would you move if hell froze " [00:00:59] You know the subway is the underground railroad [00:01:02] Lynch trees have the same white limbs [00:01:04] Check out my arms I look just like him [00:01:07] These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side [00:01:13] These color lines these color lines been here since jump [00:01:18] I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind [00:01:23] I write these color lines these color line [00:01:28] Let's you and I get one thing straight [00:01:31] The game never been equal ain't no food on my plate [00:01:33] I gave birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and profited [00:01:37] And packaged it and wouldn't give me half of it [00:01:39] Peep how I master this and break down how you took it all [00:01:42] Raped the culture and you standing there looking all [00:01:45] Innocent take a mile when I give and inch [00:01:48] And how you getting rich is it a coincidence [00:01:50] Or is it ignorance You don't know your own privilege [00:01:53] You own riches and don't know what homeless is [00:01:55] You got a lot to learn before you even think about [00:01:58] Hip hop black culture and which fitted you pickin out [00:02:01] Nigger in the street I don't think so bro [00:02:03] My people ain't supportin your black history show [00:02:06] So stop what you doing we won't take it anymore [00:02:09] Before you come in my house wipe ya feet at the door [00:02:12] These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side [00:02:17] These color lines these color lines been here since jump [00:02:23] I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind [00:02:27] I write these color lines these color lines [00:02:33] I see the color lines [00:02:35] It's tough that Every other time a bother rhymes [00:02:37] White mothers think of gutter crimes [00:02:39] We keep our standard higher [00:02:40] We don't kick lower rhymes [00:02:41] Other times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds [00:02:44] All you gotta do is get past the guilt [00:02:46] We ain't living in a house that master built [00:02:49] If you understand that tell your people what you know [00:02:52] Because one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe [00:02:54] Yes My great grands had land had slaves [00:02:57] I guess I pressed this record off the bank he made [00:03:00] But I want independance past the declaration [00:03:03] But one down a** white boy can't pay for reparations [00:03:05] I'm running out of patience while you do the work of Satan [00:03:08] Like an impulse Edu Leedz Black history's an insult [00:03:10] Number one I'm not trying to tell your story [00:03:14] I just want to sit on my porch drink a forty and spit [00:03:16] Number two cause You can smell bullshit [00:03:19] I just love hip hop [00:03:20] Pinky swear that's it [00:03:21] If you love hip hop respect it [00:03:23] That includes the people who created it and paved the way for this [00:03:26] So that you're making it [00:03:27] You're talking on who's making it I'll play devil's advocate [00:03:30] A lot of black music has white dollars backing it [00:03:32] (Kweli's got it on lock) [00:03:34] Rupert Murdoch funded Rawkus [00:03:35] You looking for the keys then you better check the pockets [00:03:37] I'll be checking pockets all right