Brother (Watching)
Shad

(I've been watching everythingnBrother, brother, man)nnI try to hold some hope in my heart for these African youthsnComing up where I'm from, many traps to eludenSurrounded by mostly white and affluent dudesnAnd somehow, you expected to havenMastered this smooth swagger and movenWith the right walk, the right talknFashion and crewsnSouls subtly attacked and abusednAnd what's funny's being black wasn't coolnWhere I'm from til suddenlynYou started hearing rap in the schoolnHallwaysnAdmist this madness I grewnWith knack for amusing through this little skillnFor rapping at dudesnAn' we all like to laugh at the truthnBut when you young and same factsnPertain to who you rapping em tonWell, I opted not to bringnThat to the boothnBut after a while, it sort of starts nagging at younThe crazed infatuation with blacknessnThat trash that gets viewednAnd the fact that the tube only showed blacksnActing the fool and I was watching...nn(Saturated with negative images and a limited range ofnPossibilities is strange...)nnAnd it's sad cause that naturally donSort of condition your mind and over timenThat's what's attractive to younSo young blacks don't see themselves innScholastic pursuitsnOr the more practical routesnIt's making tracks or it's hoopsnOr God-forbid movin packs for the lootnEven with this music we so limited - it's rap or producenAnd that narrow conception of what's black isn't truenOf course, still we feel forced to adapt to this viewnLike there's something that you're having to provenNow add that to the slewnOf justification the capitalists usenFor the new blaxploitationnMany actions excusednIn the name of getting cashnThat's adversely impactin our youthnWith mental slavery, the shackles is loosenAnd it's hard to cut chains when they attached at the rootsnSo what the new black activists donFor our freedom is just being themnDo what you're passionate tonNot confined by a sense that you have to disprovenAny stereotypes, so-called facts to refutenOr match any image of blacknessnThey've established as truenPerhaps we'll break through the glass ceilingsnShatter the roof and emergenFrom these boxes that they have us in coopednAnd grow to smash the mold that they casted of younI'll keep watching...

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