Luyện nghe bài hát What Am I?

Yo I don't even know what the is kid
All different things seperatin us
It got me walkin this man
and I don't know what 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 Rican, half black...")

Now how old are

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

They want to see you a failure so I
it
Light-skinned, them lead, curly-headed
Called me names, I was different, I was gifted, they me ashamed
Found out that I'm a different shade when I'm in the grade
Abe Lincoln's play, they me to portray a slave
My momma's face pale she looked like she wanted to puke
Now that I know the truth I'd play John Wilkes Booth
my family came and bitched and in the play my role was switched
My grandma told me I was fixed my wasn't fixed
My family seen my of the world distort
Moms last resort, she we would move to Newark
I took a deep breath leaving everything I knew
The country air the green grass and my piece of
Harassed by cops on our way we're 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
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
What am I who am I am I
or white, I can't identify
What am I who am I am I

Culture shock, Newark's a far cry Middlesex
Broadly called projects, eyes, regrets
Torn lives, never seen so many people depressed
My mental molested, physical takes violent threats
Stress, walkin home from like a terrorist test
I learned blacks could be too, somehow still I felt I was blessed
Even my teachers called me and all of that
I was scared of livin here but also scared of movin
See where I was I was the darkest thing they ever saw
figured that I'm black, white around
They kick me like a soccer
White didn't accept me
you
Black didn't accept me
you
Puerto Ricans accept 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 born black, I 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 and tell my African mother that
In fact causin crackup they no sister would attract to me
These same brothers got perms to get their hair like mine was
Descrimination, a brother's education
Hands up in black class, they never called on my ass
But wait, at a rapid rate
I digest their hate, family
Found out my father left me when I'm
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 Orange I set it off talent staring
A high yellow progression, my flavor's pouring

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Now how old are

About nineteen lettin off my
Used to be a bag, but now I stomps, in hip-hop fiend
Now I get the jokes, Menudo jokes, Rico Suave jokes
But females me and the MC's steal up all my quotes
See I lacks in melanin I makes up wit adrenalin
Your weak at blemishin my mixed heritage I'm treasurin
Don't need caucausian acceptance just that of a being
Laughed and spit at I represent cause I am not Spanish speaking
Now how many must I pay to win
You're and you're stressin that opression
but you me by the skin I'm in when
Clayton Powell's, light-skinned and
Farrakhan the brother's, and
Elijah also, light-skinned
Discrimination from my own peoples is making my temper go so
So playing 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 ain't no zebra, ain't no of original either
Don't call me mulatto I stab you with a bottle
Callin brother oreo get off it yo, now Tom consider
He could be Chino XL, a yellow ass nigga

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