Luyện nghe bài hát What Am I?

Yo I even know what the vibe is kid
All these different things us
It got me this fence man
and I even know what side I'ma fall on B
see it

Well I'm a zebra
("Half Puerto Rican, half black, but you don't Spanish")
Don't call me zebra
("Half Puerto Rican, black...")

Now how old are

six, on my BMX, doin tricks
Back to Middlesex with a couple of white trashy brats
Everything was coochie crunch it was time for lunch
They said to wait in the back, they that Pops ain't like black
See where I was the mostly white
it?
They see you jiggaboo with your
painted
Be home by one of their daughters and their fathers

They want to see you a so I never
it
Light-skinned, them lead, curly-headed
Called me names, I was different, I was gifted, they made me
Found out that I'm a shade when I'm in the second grade
Abe Lincoln's play, they want me to portray a
My momma's face went pale she like she wanted to puke
Now that I know the truth I'd rather play Wilkes Booth
Although my came 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
last resort, she decided we would move to Newark
I a deep breath leaving everything I knew behind
The air the green grass and my piece of mind
Harassed by white cops on our way pulled out our car
Mistook my mom for Joanne Chesimard now I'm scarred

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am I, I'm confused, can't decide
What am I who am I am I
or white, I can't identify
What am I who am I am I
I'm confused, decide
am I who am I what am I
Black or white, I identify
am I who am I what am I

Culture shock, Newark's a far cry from
called projects, black eyes, regrets
Torn lives, never seen so many people depressed
My mental 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 scared of movin back
See where I was I was the darkest thing they ever saw
They that I'm black, white around
They kick me a soccer ball
White people didn't me
you
Black didn't accept me
you
Puerto Ricans accept me
you
Diggin researchin my identity it me goin cuckoo

"I'm the nigga right?
I'm of that. I am not passing, I am black!
I was black, I live black,
and I die, proud to be called black!"

So now I'm goin "Hey niggaz" at niggaz that say not black
They come to my house and tell my African that
In causin crackup they said no sister would attract to me
These same brothers got to get their hair like mine was naturally
Descrimination, affects a brother's
Hands up in history class, they never called on my ass
But wait, at a rapid rate
I their hate, it's family
Found out my father left me when I'm
Dealt with felt if I knew my Spanish they'd help
mixed person I met they mostly just kept to themself
We moved to East I set it off talent shows staring
A high yellow nigga's progression, my flavor's

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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 jokes, Menudo jokes, Rico Suave jokes
But females rush me and the steal up all my quotes
See what I lacks in melanin I up wit adrenalin
Your attempts at blemishin my mixed heritage I'm treasurin
Don't need caucausian acceptance that of a human being
Laughed and spit at I don't represent I am not Spanish speaking
Now how many must I pay to win
You're angry and stressin that opression
but you judge me by the skin I'm in
Clayton Powell's, light-skinned and
Farrakhan the brother's, and
Elijah also, light-skinned
Discrimination from my own peoples is my temper go thin so
So stop playing me slight my song's aight instead 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 original
Don't call me mulatto I stab you a broken bottle
Callin your brother oreo get off it yo, now Tom
He could be Chino XL, a yellow ass nigga

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