2024-2025

Baby I’m Black Like Me

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Baby I’m Black LikeWhen Suge Knight See MeHe Go Faith, It’s Been Too Long(And it has, he’s a betterman than has been said)Baby I’m Black like I toldmean white kids MLK JrWas my daddy when I was littleso they’d have to do math

Baby I’m Black likeMy hips and my thighsLike the inside of my lipAnd underneath my tongueLives darkness swallowed by sun

I’m Black likeIce Cube owes me a favorBut he know I ain’t cashing inSo I can almost always be likeyo what’s up homie on an emailNo beef with Cube, Friday for life

but I am Black likeI been in fights with: Rosa Parks,Dang near towering overher wearing that necklaceMe disagreeing openlybut honestly she was right

Ms Parks I do further apologize 🙏🏾and now I’m running the businessshe told me to when I was tenWorking on my first billionNot to mention my fight with Toni Morrisonbut who couldn’t with usbeing the bitches we bitches were then?

Angela Davis called me yelling causedid I out a bitch, why fucking yes.Nah, you don’t get to use up women.And call yourself a radicalunless you radically rapist.Ain’t that right Danadon’t have me call you Queennot with how many times Latifahhad to hear from friends of mequick n quietly over herlove of 18 year old dancers!

And don’t even get me going on thatJanelle, cause it’s only afterI and others made it ok to liveThat this one wanna claim BlaQue queerWhere was ya when we was dying?Hmmm, saying Essence they lying?Hmm back when dirty computerwas way cleanAlways suited bootedTied Up in a closet

Do you but don’t expectme to smileor even acknowledge yawhen so many diedEvery time you all calledbeing a lesbian terrible

Fuck this tea is hot ain’t itbut let me not keep it darkwhen Jodi Foster triedto have me signan NDA to keep her closet,my sin, having a roomiewho worked for herand me being an activist queer.

Wasn’t it Bruce Vilanchwho I screenshotAnd posted when heglorified the deaths of bi men?

Cyndi Lauperdon’t have to fear meBut she takes a stepthe fuck back when she see meScrewing Faith Cheltenham overDo make one nervous(time after time)

Ryan Murphy, I had to let it goBut history will judge youAnd find my earliest concerns validWomen and people of colorUnderpaid, never written in our skinOnly as dream or nightmareYou are the terrorbut one can remain hopefulThat all them womenfolkwill eventually rub off

Boy George, let’s keep it short.That’s it bitch, I love you.Like I did George Michael.And I’m glad I got to tell him.

But y’all need to understand thatFor decades the gays,were actually a wholebi enemy of mine,zero fucks given.

But let’s see back to other fights with meYes there’s a number with every PresidentNot to mention the spreadsheets of sourcesI send journalists seeking to holdbad radicals 100% accountableBisexual, and yes bothsides now is my operating manual

As far as boycotts which obviously isAn inside joke between me and Ms ParksWe have several I started and foundlater in the hands of Black men,like most of my hashtags

So there’s BoycottNFL which I startedwhen Colin began to kneel,and few supported his light skin zeal.Not to mention BoycottNYCPridefor a black bi guythat saw countless letters directedat corporate sponsors since guesswho has closeted bisexualsnearly everywhere, huh?

And let’s always bring upBoycottStarbucks because I did tryand go small, but after being ignoredand not being able to peeDuring White House meetings in DC,I gave up and didn’t let upuntil Shultz was stepped down,Not even for a minute.

Faith Cheltenham then isBlack like Black brainiacBlack like fucking your shit upand guess what,you’re gonna like it,fuck you’re gonna love itWhen I’m fighting I’m also loving right?I’m also lifting up the people you should seeWhile trying to delete the bad from view

So who telling you aboutAyo and the Bear firstback when FX had white Ryan to promotebut I got Lips and Southside’s back for life,or frfr anytime we got3 Black cast members.Or I’m all about my grandma peopleNative America has meTo send stories and dreamsTo share the sea and the prayersTo hear the medicine and love this landAnd nah, no one pays me,and honestly I do it because

Baby I’m Black like thatAnd that’s how we actWe love and reactWe give and don’t takeAnd it’s our world now to remakeAll over don’t you see emThey wanna be Black like meThey wanna have skin that glows like fireThey wanna dance and hit beats,not break em like raygun

And you know what? Let them!Let them hire you to learn to dance,to walk, talk, eat, and do hair,Need a whole team out to Australia!In fact I’m now announcing slavery 3.0Ya know the one wherewe recognize vulnerable as superiorPut these owners in the chainsthey wanted all alongAnd walk them like dogsRuff Ruff Bark Bark motherfuckers

Listen, some things are goodto take away from queer spaces!

So honey, be Black like me, andcharge the fuck out of themFor every whip and beatFor every chance to be more completeThis they want, and world won’t repair itselfGod said it best, but Faith alsoinvites you to help yourself

Because baby theywanna beBlack like meSo everyone one that is, sell it.Shopify, Amazon Black Seller,WooCommerce, OnlyFans, Square, orPick you a platform beforeMore light people and whites evenMake all this money on us,They love us, so show us the moneyHoney, you wanna be Black like me!