I know that my life matters I know that yes I rock Despite my lox I do love my hair I just colour outside your box I just colour outside your lines Black cat till the day I die In case you don't geddit I'm affirming That black grrrls are kawaii Pink lox in shock eyes pop jaws drop every time we walk the streets By far the vanguard of any style challenge we choose to meet (Who they think they are?) Who's asking? (Why you dressed like that?) Cuz I can Aesthetic and look a**a**ins Yeh we took that shxt and ran We rock the pigtails twintails cat tails with ears to match We slay Lolita decora gothic glam with all panache Panache but that don't make us Minaj or Kim or any other chyck you pin No I don't know George Clinton but my dad knew him long story to begin Anyway –who you s'posed to be is an ask I get so sick of hearing You don't like how I look here's a solution stop staring Can't go pink hair don't care without compare to someone else out there Not only that there's those out there Who say we can't wear these clothes out there We say yes we can honeylamb won't hide our light cuz you can't stand it Yawl might not wanna hear this it goes against and some fear this You turn heads we snap spines go ‘gainst the grain on both sides Don't play dress up I wear clothes think on that ‘fore you look down nose I know that my life matters I know that yes I rock Despite my lox I do love my hair I just colour outside your box I just colour outside your lines Black cat till the day I die In case you don't geddit I'm affirming That black grrrls are kawaii Why are full lips okay for you And full lips aren't okay for us We come by this naturally thus Our full hips and our big bu*ts Why wearing braids get us sacked That ain't fiction that's a fact Why can you embrace your curls But when we do it's a personal attack Why yank our culture roll Hip-hop rock and blue eyed soul Anime cosplays we can't do cuz reasons but Neither can you Why every time we make a statement About our beauty you try to take it And it's not just us it's anyone brown We stand up; you put down Is it fear of missing out Hell we missed out all our lives So we stood strong on our own two It's pro-us not anti-you White person did that yawl be mad You say but what yawl don't understand Is that yawl already got that and don't need it You refuse to believe it I know that my life matters I know that yes-- I rock Despite my lox I do love my hair I just colour outside your box I just colour outside your lines Black cat till the day I die In case you don't geddit I'm affirming That black grrrls are kawaii Look it ain't about excluding It's about us needing our own Cuz who's gonna lift us up When we're denied access to the throne We were told we just weren't pretty Or that our look just don't sell Even though that ain't quite right We acted and built up ourselves History months student unions marches Pride day these are a few things Got gear to a**ert we here Celebrating our kinky hair Celebrating our blackness you don't understand it Can't we just unite the planet Maybe but yawl need to know The system it don't always show Society straight negates The need for all that counterweight And all that hate cuz we say we're proud Already know too well they proud We do for us by us it's needed Black girls rock ain't being conceited When we say or wear that don't get bu*thurt Privilege is your tshirt I know that my life matters I know that yes I rock Despite my lox I do love my hair I just colour outside your box I just colour outside your lines Black cat till the day I die In case you don't geddit I'm affirming That black grrrls are kawaii