Blackboy Lyrics - Ice Cube

And I was told in school I was a fool and money, I'd never gain none 

but I used my flow as a tool, they was cruel 

said I'd be no rapper, but I did work and became one 

Now it's a cryin shame, 

I'm buyin thangs and they got debts they got to pay back 

I think I know why my teachers would look in my eye and say that... 

And why's that? 

Cuz I'm a Blackboy... 

Came from nothing, don't mean my life means nothin 

Made it out the game through the pain and sufferin 

Y'all don't think I see them purses y'all clutchin? (I do) 

See I'm a Blackboy... 

Scared when you see me, frauds disappear like a genie 

Little whiteboys want to be me 

but you don't want to go through What I go through... 

true definition of a Blackboy 

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It must be the way that my pants sag 

or the sparklin diamonds on the watch my left hand has 

I know my appearance is looking like I am bad 

In your department store all I wanna do is pop a damn tag 

Made it honest, that's why the blacks get mad at you 

Even foreigners shop and got big graditude 

I make more than you, but you got the additude 

Like I can't be shoppin at Saks Fifth Avenue 

I'm just tryin to buy my baby some creed spring flower 

But they don't know that the Tecca Nina cheese means power 

So they look at me like none of my breed brings valor 

Thats why when you see us in passing we seem sour 

Last time I checked, my power shockeras 

I was on top of the indy charts and not a slotera 

but I'm the author of darkness and I like the opera 

So why when I'm at Macbeth they wont treat me more propera? 

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Cuz I'm a Blackboy... 

Came from nothing, don't mean my life means nothin 

Made it out the game through the pain and sufferin 

Y'all don't think I see them purses y'all clutchin? (I do) 

See I'm a Blackboy... 

Scared when you see me, frauds disappear like a genie 

Little whiteboys want to be me 

but you don't want to go through What I go through... 

true definition of a Blackboy 

Frontline... shoot, soldiers represent that 

Frontline... shoot, Grand Verb, it's the snatch back 

Head wrapped in the desert, boombox on the camel back 

Escape from the clone lab, fugitives spook black 

With finesse in you, its the knowledge from way back 

The prophet of the page dont eat right till it all cracks 

Blackboy rappin from the pages torn 

Street scriptures more classic than the Jimmy Cracked Corn 

A spawn of the movement, keep the music movement 

So my purpose stays clear and my music stays groovin 

I do it for the real, I don't need Jena Six 

for me to know America is still on that bullshit 

So people think that black are just ball players and singers 

That massa complex is what fuels the street bangers 

and street soldiers to stand up 

No choice to get it right, so these Blackboys can finally get they man up 

Cuz I'm a Blackboy... 

Came from nothing, don't mean my life means nothin 

Made it out the game through the pain and sufferin 

Y'all don't think I see them purses y'all clutchin? (I do) 

See I'm a Blackboy... 

Scared when you see me, frauds disappear like a genie 

Little whiteboys want to be me 

but you don't want to go through What I go through... 

true definition of a Blackboy 

I'm a Blackboy and always gettin underestimated 

But when I move next door, I know you hate it 

You had my whole family investigated 

and when they didn't find no crack, you said I ate it 

Uh-uh, a motherfucker just elevated 

over ghetto life that was designated 

You see this Blackboy, you know heaven made it 

I don't want to go if I got to integrate it 

You know pellot boy, be happy you made it 

Just take what you got, and stop complainin 

Ok, weather man will stop the rainin 

on my people head, and start explainin 

what your people said, believe in the bible 

but you still act barbaric and psycho 

My name is Ice Cube, bitch, it ain't Michael 

I'll never bleach my own skin just to be like you 

Cuz I'm a Blackboy... 

Came from nothing, don't mean my life means nothin 

Made it out the game through the pain and sufferin 

Y'all don't think I see them purses y'all clutchin? (I do) 

See I'm a Blackboy... 

Scared when you see me, frauds disappear like a genie 

Little whiteboys want to be me 

but you don't want to go through What I go through... 

true definition of a Blackboy