My Sistahz

(Never thought that fairy tales came true, but they come true when I’m near y-y-y-you, you’re a genie in the sky, write your name across the sky, you’re a genie in the sky, write your name across the sky…)

Ever since Pac left, I know you’ve been feelin’ neglected - my sistahz, this a little something I did for y’all from the heart, no matter what I’m right here witchu

Verse 1:
Daughter sit on my lap, tell me what you is seein’
‘cause what I’m seein’ to blacks lookin’ like Europeans
Photoshopped and cropped out of their heritage
Can’t afford to be lookin’ like no Harriet
Tubman so here comes the makeup and
Contacts so now you can look other than
Brother man brainwashed too, he into this
He be leavin’ for white girls, you sick of it
See what he sayin’ is sistahz too argumentative
That’s why you try to be docile and timid with
Every guy you meet prayin’ he got benefits
You even toleratin’ some dudes’ ignorance
Layers of paint with angst to be another girl
Scars of slavery can’t be hidden with Covergirl
So you go to another world
Some other world where you fall asleep nappy and wake up with curls

Chorus:
This is a song for my sistahz, song for my sistahz
Life is too short, I pray you don’t miss it
I tell you it ain’t broke so you ain’t gotta fix it
Long as you stay true to you, remain different

Song for my sistahz, song for my sistahz
Life is too short, I pray you don’t miss it
I tell you it ain’t broke so you ain’t gotta fix it
Long as you stay true to you (stay true to yourself), remain different

Verse 2:
A lot of black women on the tube
Well actually when I look I see very few
Assimilate, you don’t wanna intimidate a different race
So you tone down them sistah traits
Since the days when you used to have to fry your hair
What’s the difference? Today you gotta buy your hair
‘cause au naturel ain’t come back in style
Then again neither has bein’ black and proud
See black actresses call it progress
To leave their mansions to be maids on Hollywood sets
If not get dolled up for Hollywood sex
As long as you look like Miss Halle or [?]
To have the screen, magazines
And for fans to scream the American dream
That’s right, it’s the American dream
But you a African American, don’t let your heritage leave

Chorus:
This is a song for my sistahz, song for my sistahz
Life is too short, I pray you don’t miss it
I tell you it ain’t broke so you ain’t gotta fix it
Long as you stay true to you, remain different

Song for my sistahz, song for my sistahz
Life is too short, I pray you don’t miss it (I pray you don’t miss it)
I tell you it ain’t broke so you ain’t gotta fix it (you ain’t gotta change nothin’)
Long as you stay true to you and remain different

Verse 3:
Some’ll hear this and call this reverse racism
They just acknowledging they were the first racists then
Take a second and take this in
Okay now is it making sense?
That a people that’s been abused and used like cattle
Can use a tune to this tune in their battle
Don’t tell me how long ago slavery was
‘less you really understand what slavery does
But it was slavery plus segregating us
And media depicting us as gangstas, sluts
‘cause the way you look at yourself in the mirror
Makes life tough or clearer
I tear up when I think of the progress made
See I love people of all races but may I just say
This is a song for my sistahz, queens never b*tches
And you can sing along if you dig it
But this is

Chorus:
This is a song for my sistahz, song for my sistahz
Life is too short, I pray you don’t miss it
I tell you it ain’t broke so you ain’t gotta fix it
Long as you stay true to you, remain different

Song for my sistahz, song for my sistahz
Life is too short, I pray you don’t miss it
I tell you it ain’t broke so you ain’t gotta fix it
Long as you stay true to you and remain different

This dedicated to my queen, to my daughters
To my aunts, grandmoms, mamas, this to my sistahs
To my nieces, to the entire village, I hear you Raven Simone
We gonna revisit this a couple years from now
But either way you still my sistah, my sistah