Bambu - Whiteface lyrics

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Another morning with my emails
And my coffee mug
Promoters like to hit me up
With zero dollars offered up
Like I'd just love to spend
The money out my pocket
To take time out my son's
Development for you to profit
It's dope to do a show to
Raise awareness 'round a issue
Or raise a little money to support
A org to get through
In a time when funds is low
Trust, know how it go
Give me something though
If you think I can get 'em in the door
You know, Phatty got a baby girl


And groceries expensive, plus
Both us work with youth
And that income is non-existent
We're in the industry of
Thievery by white hands
Talking never do give you
That Hollywood nonsense sell out to a dollar
Fit you inside a category
Rather eat a bullet than to
Have somebody own me
Or lead us to being selfish
Not the way I was raised
You need to share it with the hood
That's what the uncle would say
And that's the point that I make
See if I had a white face you wouldn't trip
Cuz it's been set up so we think that way
They want that Chuck Berry swang
But they want Elvis' face
Fast-forward to the faces on
That hip hop stage i'm seeing


Hip hop in whiteface business in whiteface
The standard of the beauty's
Truly rooted in whiteface
So we look to the white face
Pray to a white face
I'd probably be a star if I
Was backed by a white face

I see the comments, hear the critics
Read the blogs like "Bam is dope and all
But somewhere in that catalogue
He gotta get a record on the club scene
Something for the radio
He needs to market to
A wider demographic circle"
Uh, but i ain't make this record for you
This for the kid who had to
Rip it off his CPU he's just like me
He grew up watching white TV
And tightens up when he be
Driving by the local PD
I swear to y'all I've met with labels
Booking agents galore
They start the conversation off with how
They love what I'm for they love how I rap
"You killed it on that so-and-so track!"
A bunch of bigging me up
To get me right where they at
Then counter every compliment with
"Um, the thing of it is, "
Then it's "tone it down a bit
So you don't scare the audience"
I'm like why?
500 people at like 10 bucks each
And after fees and all of that
I get a couple of Gs i guess it's my fault
For choosing to be moving through rap
But the homies see the vision
Shout to CKnow and Phat
Shout to Lila and Messiah
Sorry poppas is broke
But when we leave at least we leave
You knowin' daddy's that won't
But fathers who could be making
What get white kids hype
But we make music that's for
You to break the stereotype
Without the leashes that's attached to
Those who exploit me
Cuz they don't know what it's like
To have to alter a dream
To see the actors on the screen
The superheroes on film
And have to navigate around the
Fact they all white-skinned

Man, that's the world in whiteface
Business in whiteface
The standard of the beauty's
Truly rooted in whiteface
Look to the white face pray to a white face
He'll probably be a star if he
Was backed by a white face
That's hip hop in whiteface
The business in whiteface
The standard of the beauty's
Truly rooted in whiteface

This ain't for y'all this for us
You just post right here
You wanna be a white ally?
You can start right there
You just need to be fair
Share what your privilege throw
And while I wait I'll make some music
For the homies that know

This ain't for y'all this for us
You just post right here
You wanna be a white ally? Start right there
You just need to be fair
Share what your privilege throw
And while I wait I'll make some music
For the homies that know
This ain't for y'all this ain't for y'all
Uh uh it's not for y'all
This is for us

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