Man I promise,
she's so self conscious
She has no idea
what she's doing in college
That major that she majored in
don't make no money
But she won't drop out,
her parents
will look at her funny
Now, tell me
that ain't insecure
The concept of school
seems so secure
Sophomore three more
ain't picked a career
She like ''forget it'',
I'll just stay down
here and do hair
Cause that's enough money
to buy her
a few pairs of new Airs
Cause her baby daddy
don't really care
She's so precious
with the peer pressure
Couldn't afford a car so she
named her daughter Alexus
She had hair so long
that it looked like weave
Then she cut it all off
now she look like Eve
And she be dealing
with some issues
that you can't believe
Single black female
addicted to retail and well
Man I promise,
I'm so self conscious
That's why you always see me
with at least one of my watches
Rollies and Pasha's
done drove me crazy
I can't even pronounce nothing,
pass that Versace!
Then I spent 400 bucks on this
Just to be like brothha
you ain't up on this!
And I can't even go
to the grocery store
Without some ones that's clean
and a shirt with a team
It seems we living
the American dream
But the people highest up
got the lowest self esteem
The prettiest people
do the ugliest things
For the road to riches
to diamond rings
We shine because they hate us,
floss cause they degrade us
We trying to buy back
our 40 acres
And for that paper,
look how low we a'stoop
Even if you in a Benz,
you still a brotha in a coupe
I say forget the police,
that's how I treat 'em
We buy our way out of jail,
but we can't buy freedom
We'll buy a lot of clothes
when we don't even need 'em
Things we buy to cover up
what's inside
Cause they make us
hate ourself
and love they wealth
That's why Shorty's hollering
''Where the ballas' at?''
Drug dealer buy Jordans,
crackhead buy crack
And a white man get paid off
for all of that
But I ain't even gon' act
holier than thou
Cause forget it,
I went to Jacob with 25 thou
Before I bought a house
and I'd do it again
I wanna be on 106
and Park and pushing a Benz
I wanna act all palific
like it's all terrific
I got a couple past due bills,
I gonna get specific
I got a problem with spending
before I get it
We all self conscious
I'm just the first to admit it