Watsky color lines skin#

Watsky color lines skin#

Tiny Glowing Screens pt 2, “my mother is an 8 yr old girl, my grandson is a.These color lines will make you break you make you choose a side These color lines these color lines been here since jump I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll lose my mind I write these color lines these color lines Your first rap show posted in the back row Of a sea of white kids bent on supermanning that hoe Pretty soon you're buying fitted hats and high tops Pretending that you're black enough and rapping with the lights off It's like a cyclops with one closed eye You can tell me that you're winking, but the grin won't lie And no mouth supplies, what your skin tone hides About a thousand miles south as the jim crow flies And then we're playing he said she said I see red when I peep a pink cheeked boston meathead I wanna go Bruce Lee When I see him on the T taking up two seats And say, 'excuse me, but would you move if hell froze?' You know the subway is the underground railroad Lynch trees have the same white limbs Check out my arms, I look just like him Let's you and I get one thing straight The game never been equal, ain't no food on my plate I gave birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and profited And packaged it and wouldn't give me half of it Peep how I master this and break down how you took it all Raped the culture and you standing there looking all Innocent, take a mile when I give and inch And how you getting rich, is it a coincidence? Or is it ignorance? You don't know your own privilege You own riches and don't know what homeless is You got a lot to learn before you even think about Hip hop, black culture and which fitted you pickin out Nigger in the street, I don't think so bro My people ain't supportin your black history show So stop what you doing we won't take it anymore Before you come in my house wipe ya feet at the door I see the color lines It's tough that Every other time a bother rhymes White mothers think of gutter crimes We keep our standard higher We don't kick lower rhymes Other times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds All you gotta do is get past the guilt We ain't living in a house that master built If you understand that, tell your people what you know Because one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe Yes, My great grands had land, had slaves I guess I pressed this record off the bank he made But I want independance, past the declaration But one down ass white boy can't pay for reparations I'm running out of patience while you do the work of Satan Like an impulse.

Ugly Faces, “back in the day Daddy would say that if I kept on making ugly faces and I wasn’t careful it’d stay that way”.Fireworks, “if I ever went to jail, Mom would pay my bail”.Wounded Healer, “didn’t notice it til now but Dad’s been moving slower every time we go play catch”.Ghost Part, “Grandma lived 99 years and never learned to drive”.

Man of Constant Sorrow, “Papa is a head doctor….he can’t get my twin brother to want to talk to me”.

Ten Fingers, “I never really went to visit grandma at the home”.

Pumped Up Kicks Remix, “I’ll barter like my gramma when she wants art”.

Two Blue Moons, “most twins cling like a pair of testicles, we haven’t been tight since we were breastfed little”.

Hercules, “my parents work harder than Hercules”.

Color Lines, “my great grands had land, had slaves”.

I Got This Love, “because my grandma lived to 99-eleven months”.

Who’s Been Loving You?, “I think it’s pretty likely that my whole family loves me”.

Fuck an Emcee Name, “you know my parents went and chose my emcee name at birth”.

It’s interesting to see who he mentions and when. He hasn’t mentioned his grandmother in a while presumably he has gotten over the loss by now. He only rarely mentions his brother, and only then to acknowledge the distance between them. He has a twin brother that he is not at all close to but would like to be. He seems closer to his father than his mother. He had a grandmother who lived to 99, and he doesn’t seem particularly close to any other grandparents. A few things I’ve learned about Watsky’s family from his songs: his father is Jewish.