Complexion (A Zulu Love) - Kendrick Lamar/Rapsody.mp3

[00:06.970]Complexion don't mean a thing it's a Zulu love
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[00:14.050]Complexion two-step
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[00:18.020]It all feels the same it's a Zulu love
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[00:26.890]Dark as the midnight hour or bright as the mornin' sun
[00:29.380]Give a **** about your complexion I know what the Germans done
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[00:33.250]Sneak dissin'
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[00:34.810]Sneak me through the back window I'm a good field *****
[00:37.260]I made a flower for you outta cotton just to chill with you
[00:39.810]You know I'd go the distance you know I'm ten toes down
[00:42.560]Even if master listenin' cover your ears he 'bout to mention
[00:45.430]Complexion two-step
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[00:49.660]Complexion don't mean a thing it's a Zulu love
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[00:56.650]Complexion two-step
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[01:00.590]It all feels the same it's a Zulu love
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[01:09.460]Dark as the midnight hour I'm bright as the mornin' Sun
[01:11.960]Brown skinned but your blue eyes tell me your mama can't run
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[01:15.830]Sneak dissin'
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[01:17.350]Sneak me through the back window I'm a good field *****
[01:19.840]I made a flower for you outta cotton just to chill with you
[01:22.410]You know I'd go the distance you know I'm ten toes down
[01:25.120]Even if master's listenin' I got the world's attention
[01:27.660]So I'mma say somethin' that's vital and critical for survival
[01:30.760]Of mankind if he lyin' color should never rival
[01:33.290]Beauty is what you make it I used to be so mistaken
[01:35.930]By different shades of faces
[01:37.180]Then wit told me "You're womanless woman love the creation"
[01:39.850]It all came from God then you was my confirmation
[01:42.460]I came to where you reside
[01:44.090]And looked around to see more sights for sore eyes
[01:46.450]Let the Willie Lynch theory reverse a million times with
[01:49.500]Complexion two-step
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[01:53.640]Complexion don't mean a thing it's a Zulu love
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[02:00.640]Complexion two-step
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[02:04.650]It all feels the same it's a Zulu love
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[02:10.780]You like it I love it
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[02:13.310]You like it I love it
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[02:16.050]You like it I love it
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[02:18.790]You like it I love it
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[02:21.340]You like it I love it
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[02:24.310]You like it I love it
[02:26.620]You like it I love it
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[02:29.320]You like it I love it
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[02:43.700]Let me talk my Stu Scott 'scuse me on my 2pac
[02:47.560]Keep your head up when did you stop Love and die
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[02:51.280]Color of your skin color of your eyes
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[02:53.900]That's the real blues baby like you met Jay's baby
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[02:57.900]You blew me away you think more beauty in blue green and grey
[03:01.680]All my Solomon up north 12 years a slave
[03:04.200]12 years of age thinkin' my shade too dark
[03:06.730]I love myself I no longer need Cupid
[03:09.050]And forcin' my dark side like a young George Lucas
[03:11.870]Light don't mean you smart bein' dark don't make you stupid
[03:14.400]And frame of mind for them bustas ain't talkin' "Woohah!"
[03:17.170]Need a paradox for the pair of dots they tutored
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[03:20.040]Like two ties L-L you lose two times
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[03:22.790]If you don't see you beautiful in your complexion
[03:25.270]It ain't complex to put it in context
[03:27.650]Find the air beneath the kite that's the context
[03:30.270]Yeah baby I'm conscious ain't no contest
[03:32.950]If you like it I love it all your earth tones been blessed
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[03:36.020]Ain't no stress jigga boos wanna be
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[03:38.610]I ain't talkin' Jay I ain't talkin' Bey
[03:41.190]I'm talkin' days we got school watchin' movie screens
[03:43.880]And spike yourself esteem
[03:45.150]The new James Bond gon' be black as me
[03:47.320]Black as brown hazelnut cinnamon black tea
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[03:50.020]And it's all beautiful to me
[03:51.750]Call your brothers magnificent call all the sisters queens
[03:54.340]We all on the same team blues and pirus no colors ain't a thing
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[04:04.350]Barefoot babies with no cares
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[04:09.990]Teenage gun toters that don't play fair should I get out the car
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[04:17.430]I don't see Compton I see something much worse
[04:20.060]The land of the landmines the hell that's on earth