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Jesus Looks Like Me

from Modern Revelations by Kid Pharaoh

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Watch the self-directed music video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5NYaHtFjY

“Jesus Looks Like Me” continues the Egyptian-Australian’s streak of politically and socially charged content, this time delivering a protest against the false-depiction of a white Jesus throughout human history.

The lens of religion is used to closely analyse the racist undertones of such depiction and it’s impact on people of colour, seeing Pharaoh personally relate the topic to his Middle-Eastern heritage and the importance of true representation for those who look the same.

“Fair skin, long hair, blue eyes, please tell me who’s this guy
Caucasian Jesus, can’t believe you tried to make him white/
Brown skin, curled hair, big nose, that’s probably how it goes
So who’s this guy I see? ‘Cause I know Jesus looks like me"

Hard-hitting production along with passionate delivery and challengingly honest lyrics drive the single’s intensity to a level of it’s own, in conjunction with the self-directed video which sees Pharaoh as the centrepiece in a wall of art covered by paintings of a fair skinned Jesus.

The single is the first offering from the already completed “Ancient [R]evolution” follow-up, due out later in the year.

lyrics

[Hook]

Fair skin, long hair, blue eyes
Please tell me who’s this guy
Caucasian Jesus, can’t believe you tried to make him white
Brown skin, curled hair, big nose
That’s probably how it goes
So who’s this guy I see?
‘Cause I know Jesus looks like me
Looks like me
Looks like me
Looks like me
So who’s this guy I see?
‘Cause I know Jesus looks like me

[Verse 1]
He looks like
He sounds like me
He walks like me
He talks like me
He breathes like me
He sees like me
He sees I need to my preach my piece
So who’s this white guy on my screen and
Who’s this white guy they believe in
Thought this man was Middle Eastern
Why he look like he from Sweden?
What’s the meaning, took our freedom
Now they even claiming Jesus
Colonising my religion
Tryna make me feel beneath ‘em
Think they want me praising false idols to finish me
To bring down all my people and erase all of my history but ay

[Hook]

[Verse 2]
White privilege
White Christmas
White lies
White sinnings
White Jesus in the pictures
Got me feeling like my skin is
Not enough for true depiction
Whitewashing my religion
All my life they tried to have my mind conditioned
‘Cause they hating on my brown skin
And they hate the ones I’m down with
But the truth man I found it and you wanna clown it
You're face to face with faith
The man you praise up in your frames
He never came, he never stayed
I levitate with faith to think I look the same
The Lord above he looks like us
He looks like me my history but everywhere I see this

[Hook]

[Akmal Saleh - Monologue]
In every picture of Jesus in our house, he looked like you
He looked blonde and pretty
And had big blue eyes, but he would've had a big nose probably and, you know, I'm sorry but he would've looked like me

[Beat-Switch - Verse 3]
Flexing all my blessings
Forgive all my transgressions
What if I told you Jesus looks like me?
Think we share the same complexion, uh
Flexing all my blessings
Forgive all my transgressions
But if I told you that we look the same, would I look insane, would you guess that I'm out my brain?
Uh, brown skin, curled hair, big nose
You know how that goes, imma let you know, imma take control
Think we look the same
Looks like me, who's this guy I see 'cause I know Jesus looks like me

credits

from Modern Revelations, track released April 6, 2018
Produced by Kid Pharaoh

Mixed by Brent Kolatalo
Mastered by Leon Zervos @ Studios 301, Sydney

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