That Kinda Black (Reimagined)

Lyrics

That Kinda Black Lyrics
Lachi ft Frank Nitty

(Lachi)
Tryna tell’em that I ain’t that kinda black kid
Tryna tell’em I don’t say the word nigga
But it turns out when you in the wrong place
You the wrong shade
They’a still pull the trigga

Tryna tell’em that I ain’t that kinda black kid
Tryna tell’em I don’t say the word nigga
But it turns out when you in the wrong place
You the wrong shade
They’a still pull the trigga

They sold me a dream just to cross me
Said “Be anything you could possibly”
I built up esteem and it cost me
Code-switch, a wig and some jeans and some falsies
And it was costly

My momma a chief and my daddy a chief
And they flew here to pick up the boss ring
Head down and be patient while paving the way
For the next generation of royalty

Not to focus on it but this broken promise
Of exceptionomics
Had them leave they mansion in the home tropics
And they still tryna pull out the draw string

With seven children in a ghetto tenement
Momma told us we was better than it
Kept us sheltered away from the hood matters
Taught us good manners
Like it would matter when we moved out of there

Onto suburbian premises
Never knew I could miss chocolate so much
Even at seven I knew that this white heaven
Meant it was time to grow up
Time to low how I show up
How I glow up

Soon as I got off the bus
They like, “they not like us”
And it never let up, ain’t no time to fret up

Made a promise to these chiefs and intend to keep it
Eat foo foo in secret
Gotta walk like em, talk like em
Pillage like a hawk like em, and you sure to blow up

From white colleges with white friends
To the white collar with the white picket fence
Blue sky, green grass, green money
But this green envy got me yellow in my tummy

Fellow neighbors looking bummy
I sway “Hello” looking stunning
Ciao Bella, cute and cunning
Gotta stay luxury, don’t got the luxury
Not to stand on number one-ing

Why come my elders and they grandkids
Came here for the promise like they mans did?

And I did the thing right
Got the dream spot, got the dream job
Got the cream crop, went the clean route
Still they acting like I had them cleaned out

Read the instructions on how to be about it
When out and did it, done tryna read about it

Did what I had to to be the perfect token
Built what I have though they call me broken
My American dream, no more wish and hoping
Still I walk down the street one eye open

Damn.

Tryna tell’em that I ain’t that kinda black kid
Tryna tell’em I don’t say the word nigga
But it turns out when you in the wrong place
You the wrong shade
They’a still pull the trigga

Tryna tell’em that I ain’t that kinda black kid
Tryna tell’em I don’t say the word nigga
But it turns out when you in the wrong place
You the wrong shade
They’a still pull the trigga

(Frank Nitty)
I wasn’t the poster child
Never had the dopest style
Didn’t know I was supposed to smile
All my siblings was lawyers and judges
While I was jus blowing trial
Shit wild

I was left alone
And tried to use the streets as my stepping stone
Mama said with this mess you on
Just remember you can’t pick your pigment, baby
But you can set the tone

Just to make it from night to day
Gotta move precise or it could be a price to pay
Wins come but they might betray
Said the road to success isn’t righteous so right your way

Realized I had voices to shake
Seen the consequences of the choices I make
And no I can’t receive the rejoice if it’s fake
It's hard to drown the noise and not poison the lake, huh

But I knew better
Only cuz my pops taught me how to do better
It got me in the white Benz with the new leather
And taught me how to keep my face off a newsletter

And now I’m eating Brie cheese with the bruschetta
You know life gettin good when the food better
Til you get pulled over ain’t no true measure
Of how to verify you when the boys in blue check ya
To prove whether

It wasn’t concerning keys
I really had to earn degrees
Still they ready to turn and squeeze
Strange fruit hanging from the trees
They was burning our seeds ‘for I knew bout the birds n bees

It’s perspective
You either a pawn or something to invest in
I’m turning em on to something to connect with
To progress with
So even if we don’t receive the love, we’re respected, huh

(Lachi)
Tryna tell’em that I ain’t that kinda black kid
Tryna tell’em I don’t say the word nigga
But it turns out when you in the wrong place
You the wrong shade
They’a still pull the trigga

Tryna tell’em that I ain’t that kinda black kid
Tryna tell’em I don’t say the word nigga
But it turns out when you in the wrong place
You the wrong shade
They’a still pull the trigga

Damn