Kardinal Offishall Lyrics

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Man By Choice Lyrics

INTRO [Kardinal Offishall]

 He's got the green timbs with the fat laces, hahaha

 Yo, yeah, uh huh

 Checking in, nigga

 You say why I call you nigga, think about it

 You went from what...

 From an African, straight to a nigger, you know what I'm saying

 We traveling over to what, to what,

 Negro, and then we went to what

 Then we went to black

 Then it was on some Afro-American stuff

 Afro-Canadian what have you, but guess what

 It don't matter what you call yourself

 It's what they call you behind your back

 Nigga, straight up

 Straight up and down, you know what I'm sayin

 Y'all know

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 A yo

 Walkin through the uptown a black man (nigga)

 Walkin down Yonge St. a black man (nigga)

 Walkin through Flatbush a black man (nigga)

 When the revolution comes I got a finger on the trigga

 I was born a regular man of the Earth

 With a curse to walk like a soldier since birth

 My exterior is shaded in by my melanin

 Stereotype of my type is a felon

 My people cause static cause automatically now a days we fire automatics

 Grammatically adequate my people come equipped

 With enough lyrics to move battleships

 Blood brother ever since the slave ships

 It doesn't matter who I am when I walk by

 They still see me as a nigga whine I walk by

 That's O.K. - this nigga will play the role and come again and take back the Earth another day

 

 CHORUS

 I'm a nigga baby, we some niggaz baby

 Some do walk, some do talk, some may buss their glocks

 But I'm a nigga for lie and a man by choice

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Walkin through London a balck man (nigga)

 Walkin through Rexdale a black man (nigga)

 Strollin through Dectaur as a black man (nigga)

 Yo, I was born to emcee representin with the Figurez

 I can taste the history livin in my bones

 For the thickness I got a love jones

 I like my girls with the nappy dug out hips and chest buss out

 Lips real full, gettin ready to cuss out

 Parasuco gettin insulated by the structure

 Body so powered that the labels be stickin out in 3-D

 We salute the ladies - raped over time pushin out light babies

 The slave masters with the devil in their eye

 Saw nothin but a nigga when you walked by

 But you the mother of creation

 Let's bring back the family aspect and try to build a strong nation

 

 CHORUS

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Walkin through Chinatown a black man (nigga)

 Walkin through the projects a balck man (nigga)

 Strollin through Africa a black man (nigga)

 Some try to disrespect to make themsleves look bigger

 I am a nigga since birth, a man by choice

 Some men act niggerish pushin Rolls Royces

 Thinkin them toys make a man

 While you johnin them hookers

 We tryin to make a stand

 What you believe in?

 Chris Rock? Or crack rock?

 Soft rock? Or hard rock?

 When I talk the whole world rocks

 LIke the vote, we can change thinkin

 Before you set a float your whole concepts sinkin

 You know I like to see you back that ass up

 But before you pass up, you should get your damn class up!

 Take the hood out your mouth and parle!

 So we can take back the world right now, today! *Vocal scratching*

 

 CHORUS X3