Stereotypes

Girls love Beyoncé
Girls love Nicki
The world is corrupted with stereotypes, the media's too picky
QUICKLY slapped in the face with the hands of society
Why do we live with requirements? Why is appearance a priority?
Stereotypes. Women have their songs but played only in certain stereotypes
Light skins, Dark skins. Same color different shades. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Please y’all only see the title page.
Arabs, whites grown in different lights.
What’s the difference between red bottoms and platforms they both reach the same heights.
Exactly.
What’s personal appearance? Michael Jackson said I’m starting with the man in the mirror.
Robin Thicke saw blurred lines now it's our time to see it clearer.
J. Cole preached we ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still but the media is needy of that perfect figure still.
And this is what ignites our flame internally, I refuse to let the female race starve themselves of beauty for eternity.
The media says if you want to be the best you have to want it more than your next breath but in the wise words of Rene Jacquez numerous amounts of models were a pic away from the photoshoot with the angel of death
Photos in magazines are altered so beauty can tangible but the media says and wants things that are unexplainable
White girls are rednecks, stereotypes
Dark Skins are loud and ghetto, stereotypes
Arabs don’t speak English, and light skins are yellow, stereotypes
Asians are smart and Africans run track, Stereotypes
All of these are irrelevant opinions but none are proven facts
And some might ask why I project with such anger and I respond because many are quick to deface the smile of a stranger
Eyebrows on fleek, nails done, hair done, everything did to fill the shoes of a cartoon character with nothing to give
But I stay confident and set flames to what I am told
And I keep a smile on my face to warm my heart when I get cold
When we will we change from a title to a name, Stereotypes

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