Be a Buddy, Not a Bully

A Comegys Afterschool Production
Hook written by Diamond Houston (4th grade)
Verses written by Keion Marshall* (7th grade)

Recorded and filmed by Howe Pearson at B.B. Comegys Elementary School in Philadelphia, PA
Featuring Sam Friedman on toy piano

Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Not a b-b-b-b-bully, not a b-b-b-b-bully

*It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how to keep from going under
It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how to keep from going under*

I said I’m tired of being bullied, every single day
Every corner that I turn there’s a bully to pay
I need a break, quick, break and pause, need to be fixed
Take a step outside my house and I’m caught in the mix
When will it end, the bullying, the teasing?
Picking on the kid you don’t even got a reason
They say they better than us, the lies the lies
Well why don’t they try somebody their own size?
Laughing at us, thinking it’s funny
Picking on kids in school for lunch money
That ain’t the way it’s supposed to be
How can one little fist separate you and me?

**Can’t nobody take my pride, can’t nobody hold me down, oh no, I gotta keep it moving**

New school or old school, we gotta change, rearrange, use our brains to study the chains
They can’t hold me down cuz I’m book smart
For haters who got no love like a broke heart
Never easily broken, y’all are Pop Tarts
Only thing I bully is rappers on hip-hop charts
Lyrically, I’m a miracle to the game, cuz when hip-hop die, his last words are my name, check it
I’ll be resurrected then every second I’ll kick it
I’ll be busting records and getting rid of the wicked
Gotta make, the change, like a dollar bill, sometimes I wonder, why they try to keep me under

Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Not a b-b-b-b-bully, not a b-b-b-b-bully

*lyrics from Grandmaster Flash
**lyrics from P Diddy