Brown Brother

(album: Perspective - 2021)

My brown brother
That's my uso, that's my toko, my tagane, yeah, I got 'em 'cause I love
My brown brother
We came up from the gutter, had no one but each other 'cause that's
My brown brother
Ain't no way that I could leave him, I'll always believe in
My brown brother
Yeah, my brown brother

Man, what a time to be alive and to be brown (Ay)
I'm a Samoan descendent and they know that 'cause I'm proud (Uh-huh)
I remember the days when they were always looking down
But now we're climbing up the ranks, slowly reaching for the crown (Ha)
We migrated as labourers, you know that's facts (True)
In them sugar cane fields fucking breaking back (Aha)
Pretty much slaves at that, and then they tried send us back
But nowadays we got the world listening to our tracks
I represent my brown brothers (My uso), it's our time (Swear)
Despite our dark skin, we manage to outshine
'Cause we always work hard, they know that we grind
They only need brown brothers when they wanna drink wine (Ah)
But now we got them listening to our music on the charts
Even up on the rugby field, we got the most heart
I promise that we're different
My peoples like no other
One day I know we'll make it, because we faith in

My brown brother
That's my uso, that's my toko, my tagane, yeah, I got 'em 'cause I love
My brown brother
We came up from the gutter, had no one but each other 'cause that's
My brown brother
Ain't no way that I could leave him, I'll always believe in
My brown brother
Yeah, my brown brother

I know that it's a tough pill to swallow but there's a norm that we follow
Which causes stereotypes to become a promise (Okay)
I know we'll make it out 'cause it's not what we're about
But let me break it down and display some of our common options (Tell me)
Like option A, we end up working hard in a factory, slaving away just to feed our families (That's facts)
Or option B, we're handling the beef on the streets, ending up dead or captured by police (Nah)
It's normal for our people to be screaming fuck the system
So I wanna set it straight, make you relate to what I vision
My brothers, we have to start using our intuition
And stop blaming the world when we're the ones making decisions (Yeah)
This is some real shit, I hope you feel this
And use it to break the barriers I know we deal with
As your uso, I just pray that we uplift one another
And I put that on my mother, till I'm 6 feet under that I got my

My brown brother
That's my uso, that's my toko, my tagane, yeah, I got 'em 'cause I love
My brown brother
We came up from the gutter, had no one but each other 'cause that's
My brown brother
Ain't no way that I could leave him, I'll always believe in
My brown brother
Yeah, my brown brother