《What Am I (Album Version)》歌词

[00:04:58] What Am I (Album Version) - Chino Xl

[00:04:58] Yo i don't even know what the vibe is kid

[00:04:58] All these different things seperatin us

[00:04:58] It got me walkin this fence man

[00:04:58] And i don't even know what side i'ma fall on b

[00:04:58] Can't see it

[00:04:58] Well i'm a zebra y'all

[00:04:58] ("half puerto rican, half black, but you don't speak spanish")

[00:04:58] Don't call me zebra y'all

[00:04:58] ("half puerto rican, half black...")

[00:04:58] Now how old are you?

[00:04:58] About six, on my bmx, doin tricks

[00:04:58] Back to middlesex with a couple of poor white trashy brats

[00:04:58] Everything was coochie crunch till it was time for lunch

[00:04:58] They said to wait in the back, they said that pops ain't like black

[00:04:58] See where i was the population's mostly white

[00:04:58] Ain't it?

[00:04:58] They wanna see you jiggaboo with your

[00:04:58] Face painted

[00:04:58] Be brought home by one of their daughters and their fathers

[00:04:58] Fainted

[00:04:58] They want to see you a failure so i never

[00:04:58] Became it

[00:04:58] Light-skinned, showed them lead, curly-headed

[00:04:58] Called me names, i was different, i was gifted, they made me ashamed

[00:04:58] Found out that i'm a different shade when i'm in the second grade

[00:04:58] Abe lincoln's play, they want me to portray a slave

[00:04:58] My momma's face went pale she looked like she wanted to puke

[00:04:58] Now that i know the truth i'd rather play john wilkes booth

[00:04:58] Although my family came and *****ed and in the play my role was switched

[00:04:58] My grandma told me i was fixed my problems wasn't fixed

[00:04:58] My family seen my views of the world distort

[00:04:58] Moms last resort, she decided we would move to newark

[00:04:58] I took a deep breath leaving everything i knew behind

[00:04:58] The country air the green grass and my piece of mind

[00:04:58] Harassed by white cops on our way we're pulled out our car

[00:04:58] Mistook my mom for joanne chessimar (?) now i'm really scarred

[00:04:58] <<chorus>>

[00:04:58] What am i, i'm confused, can't decide

[00:04:58] What am i who am i what am i

[00:04:58] Black or white, i can't identify

[00:04:58] What am i who am i what am i

[00:04:58] I'm confused, can't decide

[00:04:58] What am i who am i what am i

[00:04:58] Black or white, i can't identify

[00:04:58] What am i who am i what am i

[00:04:58] Culture shock, newark's a far cry from middlesex

[00:04:58] Broadly called projects, black eyes, regrets

[00:04:58] Torn lives, i've never seen so many people depressed

[00:04:58] My mental gets molested, physical takes violent threats

[00:04:58] Stress, walkin home from school's like a terrorist test

[00:04:58] I learned blacks could be racist too, somehow still i felt i was blessed

[00:04:58] Even my teachers called me half-breeds and all of that

[00:04:58] I was scared of livin here but also scared of movin back

[00:04:58] See where i was before i was the darkest thing they ever saw

[00:04:58] They figured that i'm black, white around

[00:04:58] They kick me like a soccer ball

[00:04:58] White people didn't accept me

[00:04:58] ***** you

[00:04:58] Black people didn't accept me

[00:04:58] ***** you

[00:04:58] Puerto ricans didn't accept me

[00:04:58] ***** you

[00:04:58] Diggin researchin my identity it gots me goin cuckoo

[00:04:58] "i'm the yellow ni**a right?

[00:04:58] I'm tired of that. i am not passing, i am black!

[00:04:58] I was born black, i live black,

[00:04:58] And i will die, proud to be called black!"

[00:04:58] So now i'm goin "hey niggaz" at niggaz that say chino's not black

[00:04:58] They come to my house and tell my african mother that

[00:04:58] In fact causin crackup they said no sister would attract to me

[00:04:58] These same brothers got perms to get their hair like mine was naturally

[00:04:58] Descrimination, affects a brother's education

[00:04:58] Hands up in black history class, they never called on my a**

[00:04:58] But wait, growin at a rapid rate

[00:04:58] I digest their hate, it's family

[00:04:58] Found out my father left me when i'm three

[00:04:58] Dealt with felt if i knew my spanish family they'd help

[00:04:58] Every mixed person i met they mostly just kept to themself

[00:04:58] We moved to east orange i set it off talent shows staring

[00:04:58] A high yellow ni**a's progression, my flavor's pouring

[00:04:58] <<chorus>>

[00:04:58] Now how old are you?

[00:04:58] About nineteen lettin off my steam

[00:04:58] Used to be a punchin bag, but now i stomps, in hip-hop fiend

[00:04:58] Now i get the goya jokes, menudo jokes, rico suave jokes

[00:04:58] But females rush me and the mc's steal up all my quotes

[00:04:58] See what i lacks in melanin i makes up wit adrenalin

[00:04:58] Your weak attempts at blemishin my mixed heritage i'm treasurin

[00:04:58] Don't need caucausian acceptance just that of a human being

[00:04:58] Laughed and spit at i don't represent cause i am not spanish speaking

[00:04:58] Now how many dues must i pay to win

[00:04:58] You're angry and you're stressin that opression

[00:04:58] But you judge me by the skin i'm in when

[00:04:58] Adam clayton powell's, light-skinned and

[00:04:58] Farrakhan the brother's, light-skinned and

[00:04:58] Elijah muhammad's also, light-skinned

[00:04:58] Discrimination from my own peoples is making my temper go thin so

[00:04:58] So stop playing me slight saying my song's aight instead of hype

[00:04:58] Don't called me red-boned, or light and bright and damn they're white

[00:04:58] I ain't no zebra, ain't no half of original either

[00:04:58] Don't call me mulatto i stab you with a broken bottle

[00:04:58] Callin your brother oreo get off it yo, now tom consider

[00:04:58] He could be like chino xl, a yellow a** ni**a

[00:04:58] <<chorus>>