Off Wale's album, "Attention Deficit". "SHADE" feat Chrisette Michelle was my favorite on the entire album for many reasons. First off I can really relate to what he is talking about. For years back in my D.C. days all I ever wanted was to talk to high yellow, caramel type of guys. Anyone darker then me got no type of love. Insecure about my complexion, I felt the lighter you are the more attention you got. Back then it seem like lighter girls got all the fine guys and got all the attention. So that was one reason dark guys kinda were off the market for me. Not only that, lighter guys showed me all the love in the world, which was odd, but they did. I was not a child that came from a home where name brand was popular. So Kmart, AMES (A D.C. store) and Salvation Army were my store labels. Being and chilling with people who had it like that made it even worse for me. I had to wear what I had and not complain. Then my brother started to work and since guy cloths was in, stealing his sneakers was my number one priority. To step up on my own I got a little job at my mothers Aunt's doctor's office, not to mention my daddy started to give me things and my other Brother (R.I.P) gave me things as well. No one could say shit to me after that. Light guys seem to be even easier to get, it was to the point I got what I want from their ass and moved the hell on. No explanation, no reason, not even a good buy! WHY? They thought they was all that and could not get hurt. So I felt I needed to prove them wrong.
Now almost 30, I LOVE my complexion and would not change it for nothing in the world. I am living a good life and can fetch for myself. It came to my surprise that I was using these dudes just because I was unhappy with who I was within. After growing confidence within my self I let the light thing go. I even married a man that is as dark as me. Not to mention most of the light guys ended up with so much kids and so many baby mamas! I am truly happy that I found myself and love the skin that I live in!!!
One day Wale will let me know if he still feels this way, because I don't!!!
[Verse 1:]
[Wale]
Chip on my shoulder
Big enough to feed Cambodia
See, I never fit into they quotas
Sneakers wasn't fitting and my knees needed lotion
Long before I knew the significance of a comb
I roam like phone with no vocal reception
Immigrant parents had me feeling like a step-kid
And black Americans never did accept me
That's why I thrive so much, win and respect dig
I never fit in with them light skins
I felt the lighter they was the better that they life is
So I resented them and they resented me
Cheated on light-skinned Dominique when we was seventeen
I figured I'd hurt her, she'd evidently hurt me, and all women who had light features
See, I never let a light broad hurt me
That's why I strike first and the first cut's deep
[Chorus]
All my light skinned girls to my dark skin brothers
Shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy you're so beautiful boy you're so beautiful shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy (beautiful caramel),
Boy (beautiful coffeepot)
Boy (Beautiful chocolate)
Boy (Beautiful toffee)
Boy (Beautiful pecan)
Boy (beautiful licorice)
(boy you're so beautiful)
[Verse 2:]
Just another knotty head nigga
Hoping Wes Snipes make my life a bit different
In middle school, I had the right to be timid
I had beautiful words but girls never listened
Listen, blacker the berry, sweeter the product
Well, I'm fruit punch concentrate and they water
Walk into my room thinking how to make moves
Ain't thinking like a student but how Ice-T do it
Light dudes have the girls looking there all year
It's not fair, the ones with the good hair
Couldn't adapt to naps, I wavecap they naps and slept on me
Man, I hate black
Skin tone, I wish I could take it back
Or rearrange my status, maybe if I was khaki
Associating light skin with classy
The menstrual show showed and me, that was not me
[Chorus]
[Verse 3:]
They say black is beautiful
But ask them beautiful light girls if its black they attract to usually
What if Barack skin was all black, truthfully?
Would he be a candidate or just a black in community?
Because black dudes tend to lack unity
And them blacker girls ain't on the tube, usually
Right now, at 23, I ain't mad at them reds no more
But for long time I had gone cold
Blindfolded my own insecurity was holding me back to reds, I ain't know how to act
They would get the cold shoulder and know it was an act
A defense mechanism what I thought that I lacked
Confidence
[Chorus]
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