Why can't I say it? He said to me

I don't have the words but I know it burns

I can tell, this moment is gonna

Define something in me

It's just like any other curse word

Ooh, that ain't true, but I don't know how to

Make you understand

You ain't grow up like me

Wasn't in these streets

Never rolled Mobb Deep

Not a shook one, see

But it's shaking me

How they shading me

Only crew's this tee

Saw them shoot Ricky

Still listen to Kenny

As the crest

As the crest washed over me

As the crest

As the crest washed over me

I wonder how did this color

Define the things I do, what I listen to

Can you you hear these notes

And tell me their hue

What makes my brothers pull a gun on each other

And in the suburbs wanna count and adjust our melanin number

What's dark and light without the other

What's dark and light without the other

Wasn't in these streets

Never rolled Mobb Deep

Not a shook one, see

But it's shaking me

How they shading me

Only crew's this tee

Saw them shoot Ricky

Still listen to Kenny

As the crest

As the crest washed over me

As the crest

As the crest washed over me

You act so black, the whitest black kid I know

You're just the right amount of black, you're an oreo

You can't see my heart through my

Skin

I'm just as black as you

Hold up, you never knew what it means

So take of that face you

Hide in

Wasn't in these streets

Never rolled Mobb Deep

Not a shook one, see

But it's shaking me

How they shading me

Only crew's this tee

Saw them shoot Ricky

Still listen to Kenny

Wasn't in these streets

Never rolled Mobb Deep

Not a shook one, see

But it's shaking me

How they shading me

Only crew's this tee

Saw them shoot Ricky

Still listen to Kenny

As the crest

As the crest washed over me

As the crest

As the crest washed over me

As the crest, as the crest

As the crest washed over me

As the crest

As the crest washed over me