Rhymefest - Who's Illegal? lyrics

[Hook]: Jasiri X Who been illegal ever since they landed? Who moved out the natives and left them stranded? Who stole Africans from across the Atlantic? Who auctioned, branded, and labeled the "savage"? Who wanted to expand into Mexican land? And pulled guns and grabbed it? It wasn't democratic What would they owe if we added the damage? Now they say that you're illegal just because you speak Spanish [Verse 1]: Jasiri X When you landed on plymouth rock did you have your papers? When you was dying from sickness did you ask for favors? When all you could grow is strictly crops did you ask your neighbors? Did they teach how to survive, make sure you had the basics? But not glad and gracious What you had was hatred One of they land to take it Cause you planned to rape it Thankless, would you call a man a racist Who would give women and children smallpox and blankets They make it like someone else is illegal With a nation of 40 million stolen people And won't apologize for what you know is evil If you mention immigrants then you both are equal But all a sudden if you Mexican you worse than the others And it don't matter they was here when it first was "discovered" Now that's more disrespectful than cursing your mother The land of the free unless you a person of color America [Hook] [Verse 2]: Rhymefest Mexican means mestizos, mestizos means mixed blood Mixed with the Native Americans this is where they stood The third root was the African it was all good You ain't cross the border, the border's up in y'all hood But history is insignificant to ignorance Cause in a sense Barrack Obama's daddy was an immigrant If he could be the president then you should be a resident [?] and Jan Brewer's too prejudiced They're [?] us where officers making laws to topple us While we're at it let's send Schwarzenegger back to Austria Arnold, where's your papers? (I'll be back with them) Imagine white Canadians with policemen hara**ing 'em My aliens Benito Juarez smooth like [?] Fighting for farmworkers I'm Cesar Chavez Border Patrol trying to keep us on edge But now we standing up Black, red, and brown They can never break the family up [Hook]