Wale - Shades Lyrics
(Boy) Beautiful [x7]
[Verse 1:]
[Wale]
Chip on my shoulder
See, I never fit into they quotas
Sneakers wasn't fitting and my knees needed lotion
Long before I knew the significance of a comb
I roam like phone with no vocal reception
Immigrant parents had me feeling like a step-kid
And black Americans never did accept me
That's why I thrive so much, win and respect dig
I never fit in with them light skins
I felt the lighter they was the better that they life is
So I resented them and they resented me
I figured I'd hurt her, she'd evidently hurt me, and all women who had light features
See, I never let a light broad hurt me
That's why I strike first and the first cut's deep
[Chorus]
All my light skinned girls to my dark skin brothers
Shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy you're so beautiful boy you're so beautiful shades doesn't matter heart makes the lover
Boy (beautiful caramel),
Boy (beautiful coffeepot)
Boy (Beautiful chocolate)
Boy (Beautiful toffee)
Boy (Beautiful pecan)
Boy (beautiful licorice)
(boy you're so beautiful)
[Verse 2:]
Just another knotty head nigga
Hoping Wes Snipes make my life a bit different
In middle school, I had the right to be timid
I had beautiful words but girls never listened
Listen, blacker the berry, sweeter the product
Well, I'm fruit punch concentrate and they water
Walk into my room thinking how to make moves
Ain't thinking like a student but how Ice-T do it
Light dudes have the girls looking there all year
It's not fair, the ones with the good hair
Couldn't adapt to naps, I wavecap they naps and slept on me
Man, I hate black
Skin tone, I wish I could take it back
Or rearrange my status, maybe if I was khaki
Associating light skin with classy
The menstrual show showed and me, that was not me
[Chorus]
[Verse 3:]
They say black is beautiful
But ask them beautiful light girls if its black they attract to usually
What if Barack skin was all black, truthfully?
Would he be a candidate or just a black in community?
Because black dudes tend to lack unity
And them blacker girls ain't on the tube, usually
Right now, at 23, I ain't mad at them reds no more
But for long time I had gone cold
Blindfolded my own insecurity was holding me back to reds, I ain't know how to act
They would get the cold shoulder and know it was an act
A defense mechanism what I thought that I lacked
Confidence
[Chorus]
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Wale Shades Comments
2020 January Im listening to this , i only heard this joint last week lol , Im not a wale fan but this song touched me as i am from Africa and im not dark skin so i understand what that means
This song here!!!! I miss this Wale!!!!! #attentiondeficit
Greatest song I ever heard STILL !!!
Still loves this song
Im a millennial born in 85.
i have to say... this newer generation of music sucks soooo bad.
but this new generation does have good people like Wale. J Cole. Kendrick Lamar... it fails me soo much when i see Amigos making it bigger than the more talented 3 i mentioned. this some good shit though.. i cant wait til people snap back to reality and realize what good music is
2019,still powerful
2019 and this song is soooo fire
Smfh this song really warms my soul 😭❤️❤️💯 the GREASTEST
2019 Still loving this!
Yep, classic
AMAZING !!!!
While watching the Black-ish episode on Colorism, this song popped in my head immediately. So fitting.
Wale is just sooo smooth and can never do any wrong in my eyes. love him
" from a light skin girl to a dark skin brother " 🤕🤔 are we gonna act like darkskin women arent tge main ones effected by colorism smh im disappointed
@rodney holmes Black women will never take responsibility or accountable for their actions. They will continue to blame colorism on everything. They are jealous of celebraties dating preferences. Colorism will end tomorrow if black women love themselves and their blackness and embrace the afrocentric.
Black women are oppressed clearly and if you can't see that you're just blatantly ignoring it as black men usually do look the other way when their women are being attacked if you really think colorism can end just by people embracing their color you are honestly the most ignorant person I've ever had a discussion with in my life because black women are not the main perpetrators of colorism and I never said black women do not judge black men for their color but black men judge black women for their color way harder and way more
@Kay Ojo black women aren't oppressed now you're making more shit up as you go.
@Kay Ojo you blamed the reason why black women have to wear makeup on men (black men). which is bullshit
LORD JABALI y’all love playing ignorant about colorist and it’s different effects on males/females, light/dark until black men are affected by it....this is why black women shouldn’t support y’all at all. Because you do not care and act like we are not oppressed like y’all.
Still touched by this in 2018.....
Still touched by this 10 years later.
this song could've made a beautiful music video
There was a sick video to the song with different shades of black people in it and images that go along with the song but i cant find it anymore
taking it back .. in 2018
Not available
fuck half breeds and fuck dark hoes ...all hail the IMP dark skin brothers unite.
+Mario Browaale Idiots like you is why blacks stay divided and hating each other. Even in Africa they come in many different shades. I don't care how dark you are I bet there's going to be someone darker so should they talk shit on you and say you're less than them?
I looooooooooooooooooove this song
timeless love this song
Still like this one
seriously he got style like kanye...they sound like they rap the same dope shit
this comment has not aged well lol
@nigerianplaya74 our countryman kills it
mad as all hell I didn't get the album love it to death. Very impressed
I'm most certainly going to buy this album. He makes great music.
this song is sik big ups to wale and if you guy think about obama would be president it he was dark because when white ppl see light they think safer and thats bs
this joint goes hard
yeah it do! make you think hard as hell
Wale is str8 truth, so dope, check me out, im trying to get known and im really determined to do something with my music, comment rate, you'll show alot of support by doing so, its my first video with more to come.
This song cuts deep!
wow dis song goes!!!! Wale is NICE!
.....It's chip on my shoulder
-sniffles-
ths shit is beautiful
Triple my shoulder big enough to feed Cambodia.....HA wow!!
ahahaha!
DailyLife * chip on my shoulder
Wale super hot. DMV stand up!!!!!!!!
#nowplaying on DJ CnC's N900
This guy has some serious skills. I love it.
yes.his parents r nigerians
" immigrant parents had me feeln lyke a step kid, black americans neva accepted me dats y i graft somuch 2 win d respect :DEEPSHIT!
fuccin luv it! awesome! WALE 4 hiphop king !
are u nigerian?
This song is incredible...one day ill be spitting like this.
let me just say that im am from pg just like wale and there are not that many white people here look it up princegeorges county mostly black people
wow...9th made this beat?? it sounds out of his style but im diggin it tho!!
man sortta reminds me of a rick ross track but its obvious wale will be better than ross
Cool song. Wale went in on it, and Chrisette's fine azz held it dyne.
DOWN SOUTH!!!
"Chip on my shoulders, big enough to feed Cambodia..." Word...
sounds like Chrisette Michelle
This Is A Great Songggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
please stop responding to LibertarianGal's ignorant comments. We can avoid the black hole of her vast stupidity if we just focus on the beauty of this song
you make no sense.
wow your retarded
wow wale got haters like shit lls
Does it matter if you're secure in your own skin if skin color is the first thing other people see? One consciousness.
fuckin hater its called insecurites bitch
well i love da song! I love everybody but i do perfer dark skinned men and im caramel i dont think that matter doe.. lol
wale is dope
dhis go deep
shit go hard
For the life of me I can't understand why there is so much animosity towards the video for "Pretty Girls", it is obvious that Wale understands the whole light skin vs dark skin mess, he has obviously overcame that so the video is not a reflection of a "color complex" he has against himself. So why can't we just say that he(if he had anything to do with the casting in the first place) chose women who were beautiful not particularly paying attention to a specific skin tone.
I'm not against you, otherwise I wouldn't tell you what I think. I do believe that the skin color really doesn't matter. If I liked a white guy and he liked me too, I would date him..
I know that now , i just wanted confirmation . i dont know why y'all turned against me . I was only tellin the truth and you would definitely not date a white guy right ?
He means lighter Afro-Americans. But I think it just depends, I'm black but I have nothing against white guys.
@brooklynsfinest11221 Fucking puta . I never said that it matters , dont blow things out of proportion but matter of truth black girls don't simply like white guys .
@VitaNegern77 stupid stop fuckin up this page for wale we dont need anymore ignorance in the world...color doesnt matter get a damn clue
This beaat is crazyyyy
Wale, well said.
me too i listened to world tour, shades and beautiful bliss last night, woke up this morning and bought the album
i love this song. best song by far. i love black men lmaooo
When i heard this song
I fell in love wit Wale
I had to go get da album
And i must say it is nice!
I love this song
And im lightskinned!
@djjoshsnowden Ok thanks i just wanted a confirmation
HOT SONG
Fuck you
you're a fucking idiot
As in light-skinned does he mean lighter Afro-Americans ? Because Black girls don't really like white guys .
Cnt download iht on limewire .
~ladie swaqqah aka beauty~
i love your comment! lol
wale is 1 of the greatest of this century
This is REALLY GOOD
wale is very underrated, i heard his stuff for the first time 2 days ago and he is hot as hell
the girl is goood
A grammy???? Let's get for real. Yea dude is nice be he's only alright.
9th wonder on the beat....young bucks!
wale wow your the savior of rap/hip hop
This deserves a GRAMMY!
wow your an idiot
that is so true man so true....
most of the non mainstream rappers albums would have sold but no one listens to HIP HOP any more...day listen to bullshyt....
ADAM ZOMBIE IS THE FUTURE
WALE! Dmv all day. DC MD VA! Its our time
@ZanehW i know thats right this is an issue that doesnt revovle around sex or drugs, but finally a rapper is addressing the emotional side of black american's and how they feel. So refreshing.
@neneluv18 I MEAN THATS true but you dont hhave to diss the white people. Belive it or not they come in different shades too.
hes called lupe fiasco u dumshit
look 4 sum REAL hiphop dnt jus listen 2 the radio
wales dope tho dnt get me wrong
finally a rapper that adresses apparent problems in america.
wale!!! DC reppin ya diiiiigg?!?!?!?!111