Lechell “The Shootah” R.H. – Typecasting [Video]

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LeChell “The Shootah” R.H. performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX.

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a dark-skinned black girl gets
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cast from misery yet again so she picks
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up a pen
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writes her own story and this poem the
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dark-skinned black girl ain’t the
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punchline or the punching bag she’s the
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main character
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so she don’t die in the first scene she
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ain’t the sidekick the last pick the
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fall back
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plan she ain’t watching her
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light-skinned best friend be loved
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is loved falls in love without having to
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hurt for it or back a negative see she
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deserves shade the baby mama
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the welfare queen or the man me she
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black like
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yeah just black and she still be pretty
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and not just for a black girl she ate
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the token
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the loud friend the ghetto friendship
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angry ain’t bitter she unbothered as
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she carefree
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she owe pearly white teeth and smile she
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happy
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and this poem the dark skinned black
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girl says you
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and she gets her happy ending
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you

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