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 y'all
("Half Rican, half black, but you don't speak Spanish")
call me zebra y'all
("Half Rican, half black...")

Now how old are

six, on my BMX, doin tricks
Back to Middlesex with a of poor white trashy brats
Everything was coochie crunch till it was for lunch
They said to wait in the back, they said that Pops ain't black
See where I was the population's mostly
it?
They wanna see you jiggaboo with
face
Be brought home by one of their daughters and their

They to see you a failure so I never
it
Light-skinned, showed lead, curly-headed
Called me names, I was different, I was gifted, they me ashamed
Found out that I'm a different shade I'm in the second grade
Abe Lincoln's play, they want me to a slave
My momma's face went pale she like she wanted to puke
Now that I know the truth I'd play John Wilkes Booth
Although my family came and bitched and in the my role was switched
My grandma me I was fixed my problems wasn't fixed
My family seen my of the world distort
Moms last resort, she decided we move to Newark
I took a deep leaving everything I knew behind
The country air the green grass and my piece of
Harassed by white cops on our way pulled out our car
Mistook my mom for Joanne Chesimard now I'm really

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

Culture shock, a far cry from Middlesex
called projects, black eyes, regrets
Torn lives, I've never seen so many people
My mental gets molested, physical takes threats
Stress, walkin home from school's a terrorist test
I learned could be racist too, somehow still I felt I was blessed
Even my teachers me half-breeds and all of that
I was scared of livin but also scared of movin back
See where I was before I was the thing they ever saw
They that I'm black, white around
They kick me like a ball
White people didn't me
you
Black didn't accept me
you
Puerto Ricans didn't me
you
Diggin researchin my identity it me goin cuckoo

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

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Now how old are

nineteen lettin off my steam
Used to be a punchin bag, but now I stomps, in fiend
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 I makes up wit adrenalin
Your attempts at blemishin my mixed heritage I'm treasurin
Don't need caucausian acceptance just that of a being
Laughed and spit at I don't represent cause I am not Spanish
Now how many dues I pay to win
You're angry and you're 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 is making my temper go thin so
So stop me slight saying my song's aight instead of hype
Don't called me red-boned, or light and bright and they're white
I no zebra, ain't no half of original either
Don't call me mulatto I you with a broken bottle
Callin brother oreo get off it yo, now Tom consider
He could be Chino XL, a yellow ass nigga

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