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Written By: Matthew Reid Dec. 17, 2015
Produced By: Fon$o The Giant
VERSE 1
My blackness please tell me how I permit it/ the shit is an outfit that fat hoes never fit in.
My jokes are for whites, the whites never get it/ my jokes are for blacks, the blacks never get it.
They treat me like a card, yeah you're race you just flip it/ do it to fit in when you wanna just kick it.
This life is a train that'll make you go insane/plus you take another rail, the relationship you fail.
Your girlfriend, was black your girlfriend was white/ it doesn't even matter cause its issues you just fight.
I walk thin line between both but I'm not mixed/ they take my black card, yo that they wanna rip.
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Yeah, and that be yourself/ growing up black nigga, this is how I felt.
VERSE 2
Now let me tell you fucks about growing in the brubs/ way before the herb, I was a little black kid.
Who didn't fit in social status makes no sense/ it's the early nineties and you niggas don't pay no rent?
Never had a stench, Jordan's on his shoes/ Olajuwon jersey, Power Rangers too.
Lost my first tooth, to be honest it was weird/ not my damn tooth, no black kids around.
The nineties H-Town, it was Christian man doubt/ that seeing blacks successful made these people lose they mouth.
I didn't understand that back then when a friend/ would invite me over it was reparations ends.
VERSE 3
Interracial love it's around everywhere/ so why when I have one I fucking stared.
Still a little scared to defend myself to cops/"officer it's him" yet I get shot.
My reality popped when I moved downtown/ bums in the trash, this is H-Town.
I think about my ex and why'd we even fight/ I was the black one, she was the pretty white.
But I love her so much we'd blend in at night/ aggression and insults were her appetite.
Getting mistreated, that's my new plight/ I need to catch a Soulplane fucking take a flight.

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from In The Rain With Dog's, released April 11, 2016

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Matthew Reid Houston, Texas

Matthew Reid is from Houston, Texas.

His influences include: Kanye West, Eminem, Biggie, Outkast, Jay-Z, Common, ATCQ, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar, Nas & Drake

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