MrLundScience | L-Unit - "Same Skin" ft. Asia Minor & Ahlee The Great @MrLundScience | Uploaded January 2019 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
Lyrics Below...
Thanks to The Raven Café for location, and Brandon Howcroft for assistance with the video shooting! Couldn't have done this without you!
Ahlee The Great
youtube.com/channel/UCOoWFv95lE-FqTyZIoMSL2g
Raven Café
THE BEST coffee shop, restaurant, and place to unwind in Port Huron, Michigan.
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Lyrics
Asia Minor:
They see me coming, and they raise the border checkpoint,
Even though this Bengali boy was born in Detroit.
A citizen of The Mitten, but I'm not kidding when they're spitting
All the hatred on Fox News, and you know that they aint quitting.
Since The Towers went down, I'm getting looks when I'm around
An airport or in an airplane just because my skin is brown.
I aint got a dynamite vest strapped to my chest
But the TSA still does their best to put me to the test.
"Uh, sir, it's all routine..." But that's just a scheme,
'Cause it's Achmed, Abdul, Hassan and Mohammed that they screen.
And I say I'm a US citizen, but they don't listen,
'Cause they still act dumb. "No no, where were you born, son?"
Yo, it don't matter, 'cause some folks just won't understand.
My family's fifteen hundred miles away from Taliban.
So listen to my man, Dr. Singh, and do as your told,
When he says, "Stop being so ignorant and get yourself a globe."
All:
It's the same skin to me, same chemistry,
Socially not perceived. Don't mean it can't be.
I can find love in each culture. Respect for one another.
Don't check skin color to know that's my brother.
L-Unit:
You wanna talk white privilege? Let's go there.
You got the argument it don't exist going nowhere.
Growing up on the same street don't translate
To same means, same needs, same dreams, same opportunities.
Just how did I get this chemistry degree,
Far from home, no student loans, coming out debt free?
It's 'cause my dad broke his back working overtime
In a factory plant that seemed to hire mostly white.
Don't tell me the pigment of my hand didn't have a hand
In handling chances of my chosen path.
Aint nobody saying whites can't have a rough life,
Or it's impossible to suffer through tough times.
It means obstacles in others' ways you never had to face
And the optics of your situation maybe woulda changed
'Cause your options coulda been different. Bit more limited,
If you woulda been born any other race.
Ahlee The Great:
Same skin, but it don't feel the same when
I come in the room, you feel that way.
Treat me different. Energy shifted.
Is it just the fact that the racial dialogue inconsistent,
Mixed with what the history books have scripted? You can face this fiction.
I can't change the way I'm made. It makes me hate the way I'm living.
Same skin, but take religion. Complicate my past traditions.
Ancestors passed for this? No I can't take it.
Gotta flip it. Gotta make a change 'cause
times are changing since I saw the killings.
Of unarmed civilians harmed by those in armor.
Sandra, Garner, and the young Tamir.
Tell me what there's not to fear. Simply 'cause my skin is darker here?
That's a harsher pill to swallow, so we all know, this aint only here.
Colorism wallows through the darkest halls of every corner in the world
Beauty standards haunt our little girls. It's the thought that shows.
Most of us, it only grows. For the world, we only hope:
Instead of put us under microscope, let us find our own.
Lyrics Below...
Thanks to The Raven Café for location, and Brandon Howcroft for assistance with the video shooting! Couldn't have done this without you!
Ahlee The Great
youtube.com/channel/UCOoWFv95lE-FqTyZIoMSL2g
Raven Café
THE BEST coffee shop, restaurant, and place to unwind in Port Huron, Michigan.
ravencafeph.com
Lyrics
Asia Minor:
They see me coming, and they raise the border checkpoint,
Even though this Bengali boy was born in Detroit.
A citizen of The Mitten, but I'm not kidding when they're spitting
All the hatred on Fox News, and you know that they aint quitting.
Since The Towers went down, I'm getting looks when I'm around
An airport or in an airplane just because my skin is brown.
I aint got a dynamite vest strapped to my chest
But the TSA still does their best to put me to the test.
"Uh, sir, it's all routine..." But that's just a scheme,
'Cause it's Achmed, Abdul, Hassan and Mohammed that they screen.
And I say I'm a US citizen, but they don't listen,
'Cause they still act dumb. "No no, where were you born, son?"
Yo, it don't matter, 'cause some folks just won't understand.
My family's fifteen hundred miles away from Taliban.
So listen to my man, Dr. Singh, and do as your told,
When he says, "Stop being so ignorant and get yourself a globe."
All:
It's the same skin to me, same chemistry,
Socially not perceived. Don't mean it can't be.
I can find love in each culture. Respect for one another.
Don't check skin color to know that's my brother.
L-Unit:
You wanna talk white privilege? Let's go there.
You got the argument it don't exist going nowhere.
Growing up on the same street don't translate
To same means, same needs, same dreams, same opportunities.
Just how did I get this chemistry degree,
Far from home, no student loans, coming out debt free?
It's 'cause my dad broke his back working overtime
In a factory plant that seemed to hire mostly white.
Don't tell me the pigment of my hand didn't have a hand
In handling chances of my chosen path.
Aint nobody saying whites can't have a rough life,
Or it's impossible to suffer through tough times.
It means obstacles in others' ways you never had to face
And the optics of your situation maybe woulda changed
'Cause your options coulda been different. Bit more limited,
If you woulda been born any other race.
Ahlee The Great:
Same skin, but it don't feel the same when
I come in the room, you feel that way.
Treat me different. Energy shifted.
Is it just the fact that the racial dialogue inconsistent,
Mixed with what the history books have scripted? You can face this fiction.
I can't change the way I'm made. It makes me hate the way I'm living.
Same skin, but take religion. Complicate my past traditions.
Ancestors passed for this? No I can't take it.
Gotta flip it. Gotta make a change 'cause
times are changing since I saw the killings.
Of unarmed civilians harmed by those in armor.
Sandra, Garner, and the young Tamir.
Tell me what there's not to fear. Simply 'cause my skin is darker here?
That's a harsher pill to swallow, so we all know, this aint only here.
Colorism wallows through the darkest halls of every corner in the world
Beauty standards haunt our little girls. It's the thought that shows.
Most of us, it only grows. For the world, we only hope:
Instead of put us under microscope, let us find our own.
