It's ya boy Chevy P, babe   Listen      I remember as a kid back, in the days   I got picked on, kicked at, shit on, spit at   Get gone, get back, gone smoke, get away   Havin' a dark pigmentation was hard then to make friends      Felt like God didn't take his time with me   He musta made me late night, tired and sleepy   'Cause life wasn't easy, they dogged me   Said that I was so dark the bet, I could sweat coffee      And peepee sweet tea and spit oil   Say when ashy I lotion down in Armor All   Made me feel like a loser really lame   Because of my complexion, nobody would include me in games      Not even tag, never "It", nobody would touch me   Nope no girlfriends 'cause shawties thought I was ugly   Through all the jokes and laughs pokes and stabs blows and jabs   Hopin' sad, mopin' mad before the scabs nobody told me that      The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots   The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots      The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the blacker the berry, the blacker the berry   The blacker, the blacker, the blacker, the blacker      I ain't have Marvin Gaye to sing to me   And make me feel like black was the thing to be   Until Big Daddy Kane, I was so glad he came   Made me feel good about bein' black again 'cause      We was at the bottom of the market   Al B. made sure it was a problem to be dark skinned   Until Wesley sniped him   In with the darkies, out with the light skinned      Now we got Tyrese Taye and Tyson   Mekhi Phife in every movie ya likin'   Blade he remind me of a modern day Panther   While Batman hides behind a mask like a Klansman      We have to achieve, 'Caine's killin' us   Like it killed the second son of Adam and Eve   Ya palm is white and spreaded fist still black and tightly now   Slappin' five was cool but rather ya ball ya fist and give me pound 'cause      The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots   The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots      The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the blacker the berry, the blacker the berry   The blacker, the blacker, the blacker, the blacker      Tiger Woods say he ain't black, whatever   They say Michael Jackson ain't white, whatever   And Venus and Serena done beat mo' white girls   Than O.J. and Rick James put together      Now Michael Vick's the new black hero   Bet John Madden ain't see it comin', saw a quarterback as a negro   Jordan he can't hide it he look like an African Tribal leader   If you can lighten him then you can brighten me up      Now don't get me wrong and think I'm prejudiced   Listenin' to this song, I'm not racist   As a matter of fact, shout out to Jamie Lori and Chad   My white friends from Lee County to Bladecliff      Just bein' dark is it what's like bein' white in the audience   At a black comedy show I   Was guaranteed to get cracked on and joked out   Now this ugly duckling is a swan, I know now      The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots   The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots      The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice   I say, the blacker the berry, the blacker the berry   The blacker, the blacker, the blacker, the blacker      It's the F.B.I.