Have you ever shuddered just from reading lyrics? That's how I felt as I read the lyrics from Jealousy. Especially these lines....
I'm jealous that the colour of your skin
Makes the brother with my skin
Feel like they need to treat you way better
I'm jealous that the color of my skin
Makes the brother with your skin
Kinda proud feeling like they way better
Sent a chill through my spine at the absolute accuracy it had. It's wonderful that you're delving deep into things like these. I'm African yet there are so many things I, whether intentionally or ignorantly, choose not to see. But you've brought them to limelight now. And it's enough to be grateful for.
I just dig! :-) it's what I do. And if I find treasure I try to share it. The Worlasi lyrics were really hard for me. So much I want to say but not really a time or place for me to say them. Maybe I will do a post just on this song at some point and ask for the opinions of my Nigerian and Ghanian friends here. I thought about it, but I wanted to introduce all these artists together first, and this post was a year in the making...been meaning to do it this whole time, but it took a lot of work and I kept getting bogged down with other things.
So I'll get around to that one at some point too, and if you ever wanna talk about it with a dude on the other side of the world, I'm down :-D