Kawann Shockley - My Sistahz lyrics

(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 s** 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, s*uts ‘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