Black Star - Brown Skin Lady(2002)

[00:38.12] But most of yall brothers
[00:39.93] Came from your mothers
[00:41.58] Looking all sweet (Black Star keep shining)
[00:43.96] And be like yo, let me ask you somethin
[00:47.83] I wanna know, I wanna know who you are
[00:52.12] Brown skin lady, hey hey
[00:53.68] (Yes)
[00:55.70] Where you goin
[00:57.20] (This goes to the brown skin ladies yo)
[00:58.23] Brown skin lady
[00:59.57] (Indigineous women of the planet Earth)
[01:01.17] What you doin?
[01:02.49] (Givin birth to the brown skin ladies first)
[01:03.62] Brown skin lady
[01:04.88] (For what it's worth, from me to you)
[01:06.78] How do you feel?
[01:08.67] (From me to you, watchin you)
[01:09.54] I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
[01:10.93] (I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
[01:13.94] I like the way you move, when you do that dance
[01:16.58] (Yes, I like the way you move)
[01:18.05] I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
[01:20.39] (I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
[01:20.99] I like the way you move, when you do that dance
[01:21.63] (Please, won't you do that dance)
[01:22.37] And everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
[01:24.50] Everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
[01:29.47] There she is
[01:30.48] Fresher than Tony Rebel's vegetables at African street festivals
[01:33.11] Where incredible women is, plentiful
[01:35.37] Over the years I met a few, none of them compare to you
[01:37.81] Preparing you to make fruit bearable, somethin terrible, let's see:
[01:41.45] You fruitful, beautiful, smart, lovable, huggable
[01:44.55] Doable like art, suitable to be part
[01:46.46] Of my life, Coppertone owe you copyright infringement, pay
[01:49.48] You been this tan since way back in the day
[01:52.08] It's like I'm standin there you know appreciatin God's design
[01:54.95] And then you showed up, it's like you read my mind
[01:58.17] DAMN SHE'S FINE, I think I add the R-E, in front of that
[02:00.67] And see if she D, to get, with a cat like me
[02:03.08] I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
[02:05.14] (I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
[02:06.64] I like the way you move, when you do that dance
[02:08.38] (Yes, I like the way you move)
[02:09.17] I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
[02:11.13] (I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
[02:11.97] I like the way you move, when you do that dance
[02:12.92] (Please, won't you do that dance)
[02:13.86] And everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
[02:19.00] Everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
[02:23.88] There she is
[02:25.04] Ooooh! Damn baby girl, look at you!
[02:27.87] Comin on the block lookin fresh and brand new
[02:30.26] Ooooh! Headwrap cover your hairdo
[02:33.22] Pretty feet peekin through open-toed shoe
[02:35.70] Ooooh! No limit to what I would do
[02:38.74] Make love to you like long interview
[02:41.43] Whooh! Is she for real, me like you
[02:44.37] Good look champion, win the title
[02:47.03] True, many man try invite you
[02:49.34] Shot down lyric each time they cyph you
[02:52.34] Jewel, what man, ya get born inside zoo?
[02:55.03] Feet they walk way and just let she pass through
[02:58.30] Ooooh! Can't be a next one like you
[03:00.69] Famous like tapes made by DJ Clue
[03:03.20] I tighten up my game as I approach you
[03:06.07] Yo check her she the nectar the bee get close to
[03:19.56] I don't get many compliments, but I am confident
[03:22.13] Used to have a complex about, gettin too complex
[03:24.85] You got me, willin to try, looked me in the eye
[03:27.64] My head is still in the sky, since you walked on by
[03:29.62] I'm feelin high, got my imagination flickerin like hot flames
[03:32.68] It's how it seems, you make me wanna ride the Coltrane to A Love Supreme
[03:36.38] My brown lady, creates environments, for
[03:39.01] Happy brown babies, I know it sounds crazy
[03:41.34] But your skin's the inspiration for cocoa butter
[03:43.30] You provoke a brother we should get to know one another
[03:46.18] I discover when I bring you through my people say TRUE, all I can say
[03:49.16] Is all praise due I thank you God for a beauty like you
[03:53.47] She's a brown skinned lady
[03:54.88] Such a brown skinned lady
[03:57.63] She's a brown skinned lady
[04:03.50] She's a brown skinned lady
[04:08.74] I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
[04:10.30] (I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
[04:11.53] I like the way you move, when you do that dance
[04:13.63] (Yes, I like the way you move)
[04:14.54] I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
[04:16.65] (I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
[04:17.51] I like the way you move, when you do that dance
[04:18.97] (Please, won't you do that dance)
[04:20.09] And everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
[04:25.06] Everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
[04:29.10] There she is
[04:32.47] Baby, what you mean you don't think you look good?
[04:35.75] You know what some people put themselves through
[04:37.49] To look just like you?
[04:38.94] Dark stocking, high heels, lipstick, alla that
[04:43.63] You know what?
[04:46.02] Without makeup you're beautiful
[04:47.99] Whatcha you need to paint the next face for
[04:50.68] We're not dealin with the European standard of beauty tonight
[04:53.64] Turn off the TV, put the magazine away
[04:56.06] In the mirror tell me what you see
[04:59.15] See the evidence of divine presence
[05:03.45] Women in the, Caribbean, they got the, golden sun
[05:07.71] I know women on the continent got it
[05:10.76] Nigeria and Ghana, you know they got it
[05:14.62] Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique
[05:17.47] And Botswana, to let it speak
[05:19.94] How 'bout Latinas, Colombianas
[05:22.48] Cubanas, Dominicanas, Tahinians
[05:25.42] Of course the Brooklyn women walk that walk
[05:27.74] And the Bronx women walk that walk
[05:30.62] Honies from Queens walk that walk
[05:32.61] NYC, ATL, LA, Cincinnati, the Bay Area
[05:36.76] Got the cocoa butter brown skinned ladies doing their thing in
[05:40.77] London and Paris, cocoa butter brown sk...
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