What Am I

Chino XL

Yo I don't even know what the vibe is kid



All these different things seperatin us



It got me walkin this fence man



and I don't even know what side I'ma fall on B



Can't see it



Well I'm a zebra y'all



("Half Puerto Rican half black but you don't speak Spanish")



Don't call me zebra y'all



("Half Puerto Rican half black...")



Now how old are you?



About six on my BMX doin tricks



Back to Middlesex with a couple of poor white trashy brats



Everything was coochie crunch till it was time for lunch



They said to wait in the back, they said that Pops ain't like black



See where I was the population's mostly white



Ain't it?



They wanna see you jiggaboo with your



face painted



Be brought home by one of their daughters and their fathers



fainted



They want to see you a failure so I never



became it



Light-skinned, showed them lead, curly-headed



Called me names, I was different, I was gifted, they made me ashamed



Found out that I'm a different shade when I'm in the second grade



Abe Lincoln's play, they want me to portray a slave



My momma's face went pale she looked like she wanted to puke



Now that I know the truth I'd rather play John Wilkes Booth



Although my family came and bitched and in the play my role was



switched



My grandma told me I was fixed my problems wasn't fixed



My family seen my views of the world distort



Moms last resort, she decided we would move to Newark



I took a deep breath leaving everything I knew behind



The country air the green grass and my piece of mind



Harassed by white cops on our way we're pulled out our car



Mistook my mom for Joanne Chessimar (?) now I'm really scarred