dark (feat. Ms. Kaluluwa) [Prod. by Mantra]

by ITM

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Beat Produced by Mantra (www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4fJZJbYH3sksecZAUUFxg)
Vocals Mixed and Produced by Unagii (soundcloud.com/unagii)
Featuring: Ms. Kaluluwa (soundcloud.com/kaluluwamusic)

lyrics

Verse 1
Every ray is a paintbrush

Every pore is a canvas

Ima paint every campus

UC’s, Ivy’s hella, Hamilton ha

Mama's son don’t got shade I throw shine

Photosynthesize shades so ya match mine

Check the timeline tanning been a pastime

Treat ya skin like ya ancestor’s last shrine

No sunburns only get sun-kissed Kuya of

Colored Kids yeah he been born itim like

Summer skin covered in a sundress

The browner the buko you know the sweeter the juice is

Never run from the sun I bathe in 8 rays they say

"Just be yourself" then they copy paste how you

Gona say that when all ya'll look the same?

Shout out to the ABS-CBNs and the GMAs!

Hook
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (getting dark like)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (getting dark like)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (getting dark like)
La, la, la, la, la (getting hella dark like)

Post Hook
Head, shoulders, knees and toes

You so dark, ay nako!

Verse 2
Sobrang itim parang hatinggabi

Ay nako ayaw ko mapuputi

Bakit ganun ang iyong isip?

Sabi mo lang “oh kasi, kasi, kasi”!

If the suns out you know a kid gotta play can't get

Whitewashed when I'm soaking up the rays

Ima still tan even on rainy days

Iitim ako even if you throw shade!

Eight rays for my lotion, never soap him

Melanin an ocean, tsinelas no toes in

Got hella poems so I’m still posin’ getting

Hella dark like the Step Son of Joseph

Ima hug each beam like my Mama

Til The Unseen gona see my LABAN so

Makinig po kayong lahat like lechon

And Chicken Joy the best part is our balat, ITM

Bridge
Let me see your true colors

You don’t gotta hide them from me

How can you remember

If you don’t look in the mirror?

credits

released December 15, 2018

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ITM Quezon City, Philippines

ITM (reiteration of the Tagalog word, “itim” meaning "dark") is a 2nd Gen Filipino-American emcee born and raised in Northern California. He moved to the Philippines in 2018 to live with and serve the urban poor in Metro Manila. Repping Riverside, Quezon City, ITM creates to inspire his "kababayans" to reclaim and decolonize their identities and meaningfully reconnect back to the Motherland. ... more