Yo I even know what the vibe is kid All these different seperatin us It got me walkin this man and I don't even know side I'ma fall on B see it
Well I'm a y'all ("Half Puerto Rican, black, but you don't speak Spanish") Don't call me zebra ("Half Puerto Rican, black...")
Now how old are
About six, on my BMX, tricks Back to Middlesex with a couple of poor trashy brats Everything was coochie crunch till it was time for said to wait in the back, they said that Pops ain't like black See where I was the population's white it? They wanna see you jiggaboo with face Be brought by one of their daughters and their fathers They want to see you a failure so I it Light-skinned, showed lead, curly-headed Called me names, I was different, I was gifted, made me ashamed Found out that I'm a different shade I'm in the second grade Abe play, they want me to portray a slave My momma's face pale she looked like she wanted to puke Now that I the truth I'd rather play John Wilkes Booth Although my family and bitched and in the play my role was switched My grandma told me I was fixed my problems wasn't My seen my views of the world distort Moms last resort, she decided we move to Newark I a deep breath leaving everything I knew behind The country air the green and my piece of mind Harassed by white cops on our way we're out our car Mistook my mom for Joanne now I'm really scarred
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am I, I'm confused, can't decide What am I who am I am I Black or white, I can't What am I who am I am I I'm confused, decide What am I who am I am I or white, I can't identify What am I who am I am I
shock, Newark's a far cry from Middlesex Broadly projects, black eyes, regrets lives, I've never seen so many people depressed My gets molested, physical takes violent threats Stress, walkin from school's like a terrorist test I learned blacks could be racist too, somehow still I I was blessed Even my called me half-breeds and all of that I was scared of livin here but also scared of movin See where I was before I was the darkest they ever saw They figured I'm black, white around They me like a soccer ball people didn't accept me you Black didn't accept me you Puerto didn't accept me you Diggin researchin my identity it gots me goin
"I'm the yellow nigga I'm of that. I am not passing, I am black! I was born black, I black, and I will die, to be called black!"
So now I'm goin "Hey niggaz" at niggaz that say Chino's not They come to my house and tell my African that In fact causin crackup they said no sister attract to me same brothers got perms to get their hair like mine was naturally Descrimination, affects a education up in black history class, they never called on my ass But wait, growin at a rapid I their hate, it's family out my father left me when I'm three Dealt with if I knew my Spanish family they'd help Every person I met they mostly just kept to themself We moved to East I set it off talent shows staring A high nigga's progression, my flavor's pouring
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Now how old are
About nineteen off my steam Used to be a punchin bag, but now I stomps, in hip-hop Now I get the goya jokes, Menudo jokes, Rico jokes But rush me and the MC's steal up all my quotes See I lacks in melanin I makes up wit adrenalin Your weak attempts at my mixed heritage I'm treasurin Don't caucausian acceptance just that of a human being Laughed and spit at I don't represent I am not Spanish speaking Now how dues must I pay to win angry and you're stressin that opression but you judge me by the I'm in when Adam Clayton Powell's, and the brother's, light-skinned and Elijah Muhammad's also, Discrimination from my own peoples is making my temper go so So stop playing me slight saying my song's aight of hype Don't called me red-boned, or light and bright and damn they're I ain't no zebra, ain't no half of either Don't call me mulatto I stab you a broken bottle Callin brother oreo get off it yo, now Tom consider He could be like XL, a yellow ass nigga
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