Everyone looks the same
In Hollywood
Same size, same clothes
Same look
Or they don’t sell for long
Telling the truth
Too Black
Well, to be fair
We buy it
Our gilded cage is here
Delivered by Uber
And the ones that step out
Brave enough to stand out
Get attacked
Telling the truth
Can’t be that Black
Soft lighting and appropriate music sell it
They think it a myth
Unmodified Black beauty that is
Black value and premium
Black hotness
Telling the truth
So Black
When you go home at night
The boogie-man wants his rent
And people are lying about you
Or worse
Telling the truth
You Black
Be Black
Take that, and take that back
Hollywood got a dose of that
But the systems
The symptoms
Longstanding and well-marketed
The machine grinds and grinds at us all
But today we win
Telling the truth
In the Black