THE FOUNDATION MOVEMENT - I'm Brown! (Boricua Anthem) lyrics

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Foundation, Boricuas rise up, huh, yeah, yo...

I'm brown! Even though we come in all colors

From the bricks to the suburbs I'm a rep for my brothers

To the Latin queens who fall too often as single mothers

Trust me we love you though we do the things that thugs do

I know it bugs you, stop and breathe, life we must do

All praise is due to the women, holdin' us down since the beginnin'

I'm brown! That's how I'm livin'

Proud, that's the feelin' I get cause I'm Latino

From the Bean to Puerto Rico, Clemente to Albizu

I'm a rep for my people in the belly o'evil

Organize: that's the game plan, from islands to mainland

We reppin' the same clan, got roots from the same man:

Taíno, Spaniard and African

I'm brown! And we all young lords

From Pun to The Floor Lords, four-door Honda Accords

Drop to the floor, but we so much more

No one as proud as us, look how rowdy we get

At the festival, each year lively as shit

Like, qué bonita bandera, rockin the guayabera

Ciento por ciento boricuas, se lo digo a cualquiera

Marina pa'fuera, cause this is our era

Shinin' stars from P.R. trapped far

But we are beautiful people

I'm brown from Arecibo

I'm a rep' that every day, rep' that in every way

I pray for a better day, that's why I say

I'm brown!

And I feel it in my soul

We gotta let 'em know we tired of they bull

Too many locked bodies, cops

Rise up PuertoRocs, pump your fist

If you feelin' that, then hit 'em hard with the left

Like Tito Trinidad, from the Bronx to Chi Town

D.C. to Beantown, we reppin' the scene now

And here from the inception, that's a blessin'

In my veins flows the salsa of Willy Colón

From San Juan to Bayamón, I dedicate this canción

To revolutionaries, like Lolita Lebrón

In the eighties and still strong, despierta boricua

We been a colony for too long

No longer usin' Vieques to drop bombs

But we stay stressed, we want the Pentagon gone

But clean up your mess, like our basketball team did to the U.S.

I'm brown, like the skin on the congas playin' the beat

And I'm hot like P.R. during the summer heat

Cool down with a piragua from Ponce

De Caguas, Culebra to Naranjito

I'm brown like Tito Puente

Rep' hard para mi gente

Caliente, like mami's cookin'

Rice and beans, you can smell it in the streets of Brooklyn

Alcapurrias, pastelillos y bacalao

Look at us now, somehow we stay strugglin'

On the corners hustlin', it's puzzlin

The system tries to keep us locked down

Los Yanquis getting fuego

Just ask Roy Brown

I'm brown!

And on the corner playin' dominoes, stackin' our plátanos

Trust me I'm brown and I'm not afraid to show it

I'm a genius, and a Jibaro poet, huh

I'm brown, I'm that if I ain't nothin' else

I'm brown, I'm beautiful, I love myself

I'm brown and I'm a proud Puerto Rican

For my dreams I'm reachin', independence we achievin'

From my heart is how I'm speakin'

I'm brown

Entiende?

For my Boricuas on the mainland

And on the island con mucho orgullo

Para todo mi gente Latino

From the islands, South and Central America y México

Stop lettin' the U.S. steal our resources

And treat us like second-hand citizens in our own lands

It's bigger than pride, know your history

Don't just wave a flag, know who made it and why

We've been imperialized by Spain and the U.S. for too long

Too many have forgotten their roots

That's the truth, from the booth to the streets, each one teach one

We brothers and sisters, we need to look out for each other

And stop makin' war with each other, that's what they want from us

That's what they expect, the struggle continues

Shout out to the PuertoRocs holdin' us down

From Tony Touch to Fat Joe, (Termin?) and Dramatic

All the breakers, DJs and graff' writers keep doin' your thing

Rest in peace Big Pun

Boricua!