Too white for the blacks
Too black for the white kids
They thinking that I'm soft
Cause they see that I'm lighskin
Expected some Ebonics
When they hearing me talk
They don't like my pants sagging
When they seeing me walk
Too white for the blacks
Too black for the white kids
Assuming I ain't black
They don't know how my life is
My pigment got em thinking I ain't POC
But what a white man sees is the nigga in me
They shocked when I be speaking
Got my vocab right
They expect me to be tweaking
And go smoke that Pipe
I be saying and repeating
That I don't have rights
They call me white washed thinking
I don't know that life
You be questioning my background
Call my hair nappy
But you wanna cop a weave
And Suddenly wanna be black now
My race is deprecated just to
Get exploited
You wanna criticize or copy
Better Pick your poison
I don't comprehend your vision
You wanna live the life
But you don't want the consequences
You have the luxury of getting certain job positions
You're less likely to be getting shot or locked in prison
And be wrongfully convicted
Go ahead
Prove me wrong
I ain't on the same
Level you be on
I ain't what you ever think
Or what you expect
I'm just me
They define me by the skin
I possess
Too white for the blacks
Too black for the white kids
They thinking that I'm soft
Cause they see that I'm lighskin
Expected some Ebonics
When they hearing me talk
They don't like my pants sagging
When they seeing me walk
Too white for the blacks
Too black for the white kids
Assuming I ain't black
They don't know how my life is
My pigment got em thinking I ain't POC
But what a white man sees is the nigga in me
Likely to get the sack
Cuz I'm P O C
Most likely be on my back
Cuz of C O P's
As black as you
I don't need the attitude
And bigotry
Still a nigga even when I'm talking to you
Civilly
Silly me
I should really fit the mold
I should blow my bread at the club and the liquor store
Sag my pants really low
Get a mouth full of gold
Just so that example of a black man
Really shows
Show em who I am
I don't show em what they think
Only person
I be acting like is me
And the image that you have you can keep
I'm not a product of what other people think
I shake my dreads
Don't steal
I make my bread
I don't act hood
And sometimes
I taste backwood
And I don't care
What you think that
Makes you scared
I will be me
Take yo fake ass somewhere
Too white for the blacks
Too black for the white kids
They thinking that I'm soft
Cause they see that I'm lighskin
Expected some Ebonics
When they hearing me talk
They don't like my pants sagging
When they seeing me walk
Too white for the blacks
Too black for the white kids
Assuming I ain't black
They don't know how my life is
My pigment got em thinking I ain't POC
But what a white man sees is the nigga in me