She used to rock an afro like Roberta Flack now she's Dark & Lovely bone straight and flat I used to always see her around Kingston Ave Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Her financial situation went from red to black I talked with her momma and she said she was never coming back she's shackin' up with some aristocrat Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Talked for hours about Corny West and Medgar Ev, bell hooks, Huey P. and Malcolm X she don't say she's black no more (mule) it's mulatta at best Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! shakatakadoowa yaeeya Now I'm chillin' with polyethylene glycol COINTELPRO put crack in the ghetto bob sport an updo and yes it's true that Prop 8 has robbed me (of my civil rights of my civil rights) so at the end of the day it's just me and Cabernet and I think how long we've traveled to come such a short way that Tamika Alvarado had to press her pain away Mica's got a perm Mica's got a perm Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl! Oh no she didn't! Oh no girl!