White Nigger

Hip Hop brought cultures together I remember cugines in camaros pumping "Tougher Than Leather" Yankel Rosenbaum still got stabbed in Crown Heights Gavin Cato got hit when they ran that red light Over a decade of healing but the scars remain Both families involved still harbor the pain Age 13 - 70's baby raised in the 80's Mad fights with blacks and whites And both sides hated me for nonsense The white kids was playin it wack Cos I'm from the projects and my neighbors is black I had to prove whiteboys could thump too But fuck skin color - I was proud to call myself a tough jew I guess I'm mad lucky to be raised in NY The world's capitol - my attitude was take em to war Other places would've raised me in a useless format In Texas they dream about hunting jews with Borat [Hook] Call me white nigger Call me christ killer or kike Call me nigger lover Because I spit on the mic Think you got me figured out You're not listening right Get ya fuckin head kicked in for thinkin you're hype They call me white nigger Call me every name in the book I done heard em all Fuck ya'll - I made it a hook Made it a song Exposing the hatred to all Cos any type of racism is wrong Had newsmen talking as a kid about Yusef Hawkins Same age as me when Joey Fama caught him walking through Bensonhurst A world away from my Glenwood Projects Racially mixed - combustible - it lead to conflicts I was never raised prejudice My grandmother was a holocaust survivor And my uncle did heroin My pops wasn't around My moms kicked him out the house And broke her back to put food in our mouths Age 12 - they bussed my projects to the white school Holes in my sneakers - I never fit in with them rich white dudes I didn't click up with the blacks kids neither - I bought a Iron Maiden T-shirt and wrote rhymes in my trapper keeper [Hook] Run-D.M.C. really made me wanna get wreck Same time Kerry King played guitar for Megadeth It was 84, 85 - LL Cool J "rock the bells" Obliterated my mind - so inspired I created a rhyme Beastie Boys on U68 - "she's on it" made up my mind Hardcore - the other bright side I thought Bad Brains was white guys when Melle Mel dropped "White Lines" Nazi skinheads showed up at Lamour's in Brooklyn Got stabbed up by puerto rican skins from Bushwick Geraldo got his nose broken - Tawana Brawley on Donahue Central Park wildin had the world scopin Now VH1 got a show for wiggers And some claim the jews be the biggest wiggers - we're considered The most dangerous cause they think we shift our forms Cast spells & wear beanies to restrict our horns from being seen Growing out our heads - the killers of christ These fools wear white sheets and believe that hitler was right Believe it or not they still exist undercover And Mel Gibson never liked Danny Glover Another piece of shit called out in the paper - if we was there Me and my peoples would have beat the fuckin shit outta Kramer If this song offends you, you're a hater - take a look within yourself And figure out what the fuck you're afraid of [Hook]