90's Baby

Shake that ass and watch yourself

Watch the greedy eyes glued to your temple of sacred exploitation…

Idolizing these statuesque, well-proportioned female figures…

Man-made figures at least…

 

What happened to wanting to be a Princess?

Remember those days?

When we ever so much wanted to visit the magical place on earth…

KOD, King of Diamonds

 

Wasting worthless green on a body so obscene

Wretched and trashy,

Showing your precious naked body to men

Who could give two fucks about you?

 

You’re just a pretty brown skin

With a fat ass, tattoos, and long tracks,

Not a queen sitting on the highest pinnacle…

Eloquent, effortless, enticing

 

BUT

 

We’d rather aim to be the best well known hoe

With 34 inches of college tuition sewed to your native roots,

50 pounds of prosthetic skin mounted on your battle scars

Being OK with becoming a hit and run because you ain’t got insurance… On your self-worth.

 

We glorify and worship strippers

We testify that we ain’t shit so we shouldn’t be treated as so

All we wanna do is shake our ass for a little cash

Money rules everything around us

 

That it clouds our judgment,

A hindrance of who we should be.

 

You wanna be treated like a Queen

When you acting like a bottom bitch.

What you wanna be? Industry pussy?

24 hour, open to all

 

Stuffing their infidelity and broken marriages into your walls

That can’t even keep itself together and tight.

 

We aim to be strippers

We worship industry hoes, the sidelines and basic bitches.

 

A culture that perplexes me to the highest degree

A culture that worships the degradations of women, sex, and intimacy…

We can’t even say the proper names of our sexual organs without smirking

It seems politically correct to post things of sexual content than to talk about what I believe…

 

Because I don’t wanna look like I’m condemning.

 

Quite frankly, the shit yall do is extremely stupid.

A culture that believes in busting every bitch open

Then trying to find a “pure” wife

But how?

 

I think it’s a trend

Wearing your sacred temple of worship

To a little tiny hut

Deep in the sweet savannah’s of Africa..

 

If only yall knew of Saartjie Baartman

Wiped and raped, just to shake her ass

Humiliated and mocked,

Cause it was bigger than most.

 

But, it’s OK

Cause it’s no longer culturally acceptable to be a queen

Cause we wanna shake our ass

And not watch ourselves.

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