A stereotype is a popular belief about specific types of individuals or certain way of doing things. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of people based on some prior assumptions.
The term stereotype derives from the Greek words στερεός (stereos), "firm, solid" and τύπος (typos), "impression," hence "solid impression".
Psychology was not the first to adopt the term "stereotype". Instead, this term was first adopted in the printing industry in 1798 by Firmin Didot to describe a printing plate that duplicated any typography. The duplicate printing plate, or the stereotype, is used for printing instead of the original.
The first reference to "stereotype" in its modern use in English, outside of printing, was in 1850, in a noun, meaning "image perpetuated without change." But it was not until 1922 that "stereotype" was first used in the modern psychological sense by American journalist Walter Lippmann in his work Public Opinion.
Congratulations you look just like me and you won't excuse
Hello sister hello brother
Don't tell me what to do
Hey stereotype
I don't blame you
It isn't easy to catch up
It takes time
Yeah it's gonna be alright
Take it easy
Take your time
Don't call me nigga, whitey...
Big fat extra-crispy bucket of chicken
2 liter of pepsi-cola drinkin' ass...
They say a negro ain't good for nothin' but a show
Talkin' slang and walkin' with a radio
Drippin' sweat on basketball courts
Dominatin' but that's at all sports
Or inventin' a new kind of handshake
To get they picture on a box of pancake mix
So I kick some hip hop
And go to church sunday to hit me a flip-flop
But prayin' ain't all we do, see
Next we play bingo and barbecue
Them days I could praise the lord and still gamble
And eat more dead meet than little black sambo
But I gotta hear a lot of old ladies
Catchin' the holy ghost most in their 80's
And I don't wanna hear no yellin'
Naw, I just kick it and finnish this watermelon
Cause I'm the stereotype...
They think all black folks look alike
We either goin' strike or hut, hut, hike
Or up on the microphone makin' their neighborhood nervous
So I get poor service
Wherever I go they steady tryin' to put jackets on me
Cause I ain't one of they fake-ass homies
Naw, I'm just a negro who knows what's jumpin'
So they be actin' like I'm tryin' to steal somethin'
When I go to the store or out to eat
Ladies start puttin' purses by they feet
Pullin' a mace out they bras like one-time
Waitin' on some crime
For me to commit so they can unload
That's how tricks get floored
Y'all can't let y'all imaginations
Get the best of y'all
And that goes for the rest of y'all
Cause I'm the stereotype...
So I'm just your typical so-called african-american
Back in your hair again
At your door for more free
butter and cheese, please
Let me take my cake-cutter
And tease this buckwheat hairdoo
To fit the stereotype scenario
That I gave on my application
Unemployment information
Like moms can't find no affordable housin'
How many kids she got? About thousand
And everyone got a different daddy
And I had to quit my job cause of my bad knees
But before my injury I was fine
Did everythin' from a jack to a shoeshine
I was allways down to work then
Until I got stretched out in the pen
Now I'm the stereotype...
So, yeah, i get it all from the big screen
Showin' black girls hoin' at sixteen
On the corner outside in the cold half-naked
Ain't nothin' sacred?
Cause all they know is what they seein' on daytime dramas
So now they like teenage grandmas
Who gotta stop they work and roll
To the nurse for a purse full of birth control
And that ain't so proper cause in my hood
They need to cancel soap-operas
Cause black females be belivin' all that
That's why they fall flat
So young and innocent
But by the time they reach eighteen
They been done went crazy, hittin' that P-I-P
Every Gladys Knight with the silent E
The scent of the wide world
In concrete and glass
Compels your amazement
Until you're numb
How long will you marvel
Before you sign in?
The gates are wide open
And here you come
You give yourself away
For nothing
You give yourself away
For a stereotype
There's no call for help I won't come running
Too late to recognize you
They get you connected
To dreams off the rack
The choice between leader
And copycat
You may bask in rivers
Of wine to blank out
The tick of the time bomb
Placed in your head
You give yourself away
For nothing
You give yourself away
For a stereotype
There's no call for help I won't come running
Too late to recognize you
You think this is the path to freedom
A chance to leave
A path to freedom
It's not!
It's not!
You think this is the path to freedom
A chance to leave
A path to freedom
It's not!
It's not!
Some go to take part
Others just to witness how hard
You try
You try
You try
He's just a stereotype
He drinks his age in pints
He has girls every night
He dosen't really exist
He spends his weekends with whatever floats
He forgets the punchline when he tells a joke
He wants to stay out dosen't want to go home
Till his prickly fingers are stuck down his throat
He's just a stereotype
He drinks his age in pints
He drives home pissed at night
And he listens to this every hour
He drank his fiancee when he...
The doctor said no drink for 17 weeks
He wants to gout but he has to stay home
So he watches color TV on his own
He's just a stereotype
He drinks his age in pints
He drives home pissed at night
And he listens to this every hour
The toplets are finished
The cure is complete
He hasn't had a drink for 17 weeks
17 punks to limit his night
Goes straight to his head, he ends up in a fight
He's chasing ... on a dark rainy night
The rest ... with flashing lights
His mom's waking up she hopes he's alright
But he's wrapped round the lampost on Saturday night
He's just a stereotype
He drinks his age in pints
He has girls every night
I absolutely despise, you motherfucker act like
You know, I can't do this cuz I'm black
Or I can't do this cuz I'm '
If it wasn't for music I wouldn't be here
Just to give with a vision but never seems clear
It gonna get to the diamonds and I was right there
I kept my family alive the past five years
This is act to my ball but they don't see that
The only ..is uncover and they could '
All we think is glamour and ..that makes angry a mil
So they don't even try to get to know
All I wanna see is '
Cuz we are the stereotype
Cuz we are the stereotype
So they don't even try to get to know you
Don't wanna see you cuz
We are the stereotypes
We are the stereotypes
You a million miles away, you run above me
Don't you cut me up
I'm here to stay '.
I'mma do my best, ain't worry by the mess
If this is my destiny, to show you what I'm made of
Hey then you playing grooving just enough to death
they don't even try to get to know
All I wanna see is '
Cuz we are the stereotype
Cuz we are the stereotype
So they don't even try to get to know you
Don't wanna see you cuz
We are the stereotype
We are the stereotype
(Music: T. Mewes; Lyrics: Marta Jandov¨¢)
Look out In the morning And you never see the sky You know it Already It is boring you to fly
I want more
All the time
Everyday
When you left my daylife
I couldn't believe it true
When you tried to go away from me
I tried to be sure of this
All of your lies and all of your vices
Now you can blame me but I know you're not right
My mind is still remembering you and all my wasted time
My love is not for rent and my life is not a stereotype
When you tried to go back to me
I've been no words for this
When you thought our world like a game
Trap door in every step
Truth is I can't connect
Move along I work in stages
Where you at
It looks like cages
See a little, see a lot
Come around see what you're not
Up and down, but never out
Last one here is left to shout
You’re just a stereo
Stereo
Stereo
You’re just a stereotype
(You’re just a stereotype)
You’re just a stereo
Stereo
Stereo
You’re just a stereotype
(You’re just a stereotype)
Sometimes the worst is best
Pick it up and beat the rest
Dig deep to find every scrap
Tragedy can make you laugh
Sign up and sell your soul
What's that
It's rock and roll
Don’t get it, you never learn
Where it's cold, it's where you burn
You’re just a stereo
Stereo
Stereo
You’re just a stereotype
(You’re just a stereotype)
You’re just a stereo
Stereo
Stereo
You’re just a stereotype
(You’re just a stereotype)
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereotype
Oh yeah!
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereotype
Yeah, yeah, alright
Now gather round
Look what I found
For you to duplicate
It's easy now
To hear the sound
It's time to recreate
You’re evil rebel tortured soul has been rejected
Now walk the line and act exactly as expected
Let’s go!
You’re just a stereo
Stereo
Stereo
You’re just a stereotype
(You’re just a stereotype)
You’re just a stereo
Stereo
Stereo
You’re just a stereotype
(You’re just a stereotype)
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereotype
Oh yeah!
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereo
You’re just a stereotype
You’re just a stereotype
You’re just a stereotype
You’re just a stereotype
You’re just a stereotype
[Intro]
Them say no, and you come
That's why you kill da king
King that he will fade away
But be fresh everyday man
Now when it come to sum bizness
Is weird that run the scene
Call it fresh and clean, come
Yeah, graveyard shift, meet the grim reaper
Sickle's to your feature, balance that like a leaper
Scale yeah I'm off that
Be relling all these thoughts on this track
All this wax I should make a candle sack
Tory bedded glory all facts
It's story in the making, I am that
Victory is sweet enough to eat, bonne apetit
Pull up a chair and eat
You buffoons couldn't walk in my shoes
If we were jaren feet
Mind too cool, dominion can't compare to just some...
In real life, perpetrate like mike only a pair of sneaks
Level 3 skittle try to squack I didn't get a speak
Burgundy, polo with public I can't prepare to teach
Smoking like santonio homes,
When the camera go flash, I get the feeling at home
Under the avalanche
Guess that's ghetto survival, syndrome fuck the system
A nigga woke up to get on screaming
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ah, yeah, yeah, let me get my shit off
Dumb piece of nigga this shit was gonna be for what slit off
Yeah, yeah, let me get my shit off
Grab me a bag of work now watch how fast that fucker get off
Yeah, have the money flipping in the oz, go get up
... nigga, we motherfucking body body
You ride it, ride it, I'm a ghetto dog,
Go ahead inside it
Yo, my niggas cry freedom like Nelson Mandela
Played by Morgan Freeman
I be walking with the giants like the G men
Hit the pussy like seamen
Hood angels I be fighting demons I'm excited
At the chance just to get even
So I play the odds, pray to god
Poker face chips like I'm playing cards
My chick like Felicia... in the face
Hale Bery waist with the grace of shottie
I take her out just to party, everybody say
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Understood by those that blossom by
... in a one bedroom, in the jets, balling yay
Brainstorm philosophies on getting k's and getting away
On gang injunction with the... yesterday
Fuck the swans all they want is a cheaper nigga broad
Contradicting tycoons...
When he see my super sport
What they done to my folks,
I charge it to her pink toes
They done fucked up and let this watch nigga get on
It's my time to heat so I'm bout to get my grill on
George former hoe, storm on the flow
Steady getting feddy, eat the rap guns will blow
Step inside this bitch they looking like wanna go toe to toe
These hands like pitbulls and now I let these fuckers go
So I think you need to let the motherfuckers know
These choppers leave they fucking heads spinning like some stop and go's
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah