black kids called me a cracker white kids called me a beaner ate lunch in school alone cause i didn t fit in with either they told me that i can t rap did you forget your ethnicity but lookin back from now they couldn t see what god had planned for me let me get it let me put it down one time for anybody out there followin their dreams anybody in the city workin two jobs so they can get to bigger better things you can t see the hours that i put in every day and night go to every track i write go to every beat i made just to hit em with the fade when i stick it to the people that had told me that i couldn t yeah after all of the years that young mogli wore a frown i finally learned that it s okay that i m not white or brown and though the people lookin sideways drive me crazy you can t take my pride from me i m cool with the way god made me by the way you react i can tell that your hatred intact you call me dirty uneducated illegal in fact went to talk to black lives matter and i said latinos do too and they told me check your white privilege boy this is not about you  we gonna make it ooh we gonna make it i kept my soul no matter how hard that they tried to take it ooh we gonna make it ooh we gonna make it got adonai by my side ain t no way that you can fade it listen you can t hold me down you can t hold me down you can t hold me down you can t hold me down got grandpa that was german got grandpa that s a mexican but don t you say that round him get corrected we american family multi colored from the darker to the fairer skin and though we share the same blood blows my mind they still think less of him we infected with the self hate scar tissues from the wounds that are cut deep so when other people sin we just retaliate man it s our own hearts that are too weak see confederate flags on the back plates feel like the tenth one i ve seen this week man that s the type of thing that make me go crazy huh how can this be america i still get misidentified some think that i speak arabic heard it all before from towel head down to a terrorist the butt of all your jokes i got my hand up on a bomb trigger but sometimes it gets brutal boy you just a stupid sand n your ignorance astounds me so much that i can t even get mad but then i think about my cousins who don t have the same privilege i have like if things are this bad for me how much worse is it then for them with no white side for them to lean on gotta give it up to jesus in the end we gonna make it ooh we gonna make it i kept my soul no matter how hard that they tried to take it ooh we gonna make it ooh we gonna make it got adonai by my side ain t no way that you can fade it listen you can t hold me down you can t hold me down you can t hold me down you can t hold me down2