Triple bodypa**, put it on my tab America! [Chourus] {2X} We're black and we wanna be white We're black and we wanna be white We're black and we wanna be white All night, all right, all hype [Verse 1: C-Rayz Walz] I'm black, wanna be white For the first time in life I wanna be right I know this is wrong, I didn't get to choose, they frisk me at night I know what it is, give me the light If I was blindfold I'd be invisible to pig's sight I'm black wanna be white, well dressed, speakin' polite Self stressed, livin' a lie, well I guess...it's good life All the dudes I payed, I wanna be DUDE in the shade Rockin' hard like I was raised in the rays...RAYZ Got the vocab, that made most mad, when I spoke like brad, is it bad? I think, drink, joke, and smoke like that Keekin' trees, these bad seeds hang on corners Raised by murderers and mourners I'm gunna be the sh** at the meeting statistically speaking Playing golf on the weekend, with Ralph Lauren, Christopher, and Keenan When the Ike be weighin's, the scales brake, you can deny me payment Well alright, I'm all white...I'll finnaly make it [Hook: C-Rayz & 4th Pyramid] {2X} We're white but we wanna be black We're white but we wanna be black We're white but we wanna be black Fight back, like this, like that [Verse 2: 4th Pyramid] White wanna black, a daunting task Just hauntin these gats, drunk...started to laugh My complex is like pardon my dad I respect you, you started the fad I got no problems with that but How would you feel if you lived in the village And were told all your ancestors did was steal, k**, and pillage?
I know, not of my past One grown out the gods, anonymous tags Bergen bestowed, I want to escape But I don't have it made cos of my skin, it's just not the case Family don't understand artistic views Feel like 'DAMMIT, why I have to live with fools?' I did me, f** what I did in school To live free, feels like forbidden fruit I'm shackled, need my gene pool, but it's all scattered Call devil cos I need food, it don't matter [Hook] We're black and we wanna be white We're black and we wanna be white We're black and we wanna be white All night, all right, all hype We're white but we wanna be black We're white but we wanna be black We're white but we wanna be black Fight back, like this, like that [Verse 3: & C-Rayz & 4th Pyramid] If you black, with a degree, and you work And got a happy family, they say you wanna be WHIIIITE If you white, rebel, smoke weed, listen to rap And live free, they say you wanna be BLAAAACK There's nothing in between, so this medium means You double excel on smallville, and dinner is beans There's two cla**es - the rich and the poor Everybody else - run wild in the halls! [4th Pyramid] I envy long standin' tradition Tension starts from what you do to me through dissin' Stop, the past is done, and was never my ambition And now I owe Grant for that tin can for pissin??? Cos some of my people poverty stricken Sleepin in the same spot that they probably sh** in k** you in Alaska for some gold Still viewed as master of the globe [Hook] We're black and we wanna be white We're black and we wanna be white We're black and we wanna be white...