"Beauty Within" - Dead Prez

For all the natural ladies - there is love out there for us

Lyrics:

♫Dedicated not to America’s top model but to the natural girls right next door. Like they say in Avatar, "I see you"

This Hollywood world so pretentious/every other girl got a perm or extensions/But you don’t even really wear lipstick/Still your beauty is a natural mystic indigenous strong cheekbone from your lineage not what the mainstream image is/Natural hair is your heritage but to see it without chemicals is rare as the pyramids/I was coming from the gym again/bumping 2Pac never call you B**** again/she ‘cross the street melanin glistening/felt the energy/something bout ya so interesting/the prototype Eve from Genesis/Ghetto empress Nefertiti resemblance/so sweet, so street, and genuine/real black girl I salute your existence/I can see us just kickin it/Building an intimate friendship more than just hittin it/down to earth like greens and cornbread/she don’t need no weaves or contacts/not judging other girls that got that/I’m jus sayin you the truth, never doubt that/cause you got that

Beauty’s a thing

Not just on the surface

The skin that you’re in, you're already perfect

They got nothing on you baby, nothing on you baby

Beautiful girls come in all types of flavors

When you love yourself it’s always gon be haters

They got nothing on you baby, Just keep doing you baby

This is going out to my African Queens/Dark skin, light skin, everything between/looking so good when you step up on the scene/smelling so sweet so fresh and so clean/even though we don’t see you on the flat screen/ain’t no doubt about what you got in dem jeans/I don’t mean denim, it’s your family tree/Yea it’s all about that red black and that green/For Gianesa and Falina and for all the pretty little girls/going out to my momma my favorite woman/and for all the women in the world/no they don’t love you on the radio/ and they try to play you in the video/but you so beautiful and natural/oh, oh♫