The Prequel - MZM

Skip my full name, my friends call me Juanito

I’m here in this country illegal

I came cause I needed to, no other choice

Gotta get paper, back home I got people

To feed to, with two options, rob or starve

On top of feeding them, I got debt to pay off

Cause to come here, I hired a coyote

5 days in the desert, had to hide and stay low key

Sold everything I own see, not enough though

Fam back home, I don’t pay, they know where my home be

So if the US is the land of opportunity

Why can’t I be if it’s opportune for me

They say I steal jobs, but how’s that even possible

When we underpaid, working jobs no one wants to do

Go head, deport me, for you that won’t be fortunate

Cause I’m the muthafucka outside selling oranges

I’m the muthafucka cutting grass, doing more for half

Stores pay me cash, cause they won’t have to pay tax

Y’all still think I steal huh, carved it in stone

Mad at me cause private companies took off on their own

This is an immigration story and an immigration song

Want my immigration status every time I leave home

The US molest and possess every zone

The American dream is why I left home

Immigration story and an immigration song

Want my immigration status every time I leave home

The US molest and possess every zone

The American dream is why I left home

Good day have you, I’m giving you respect, but check

Did I even say that correct?

If I didn’t, forgive me, I’m still adjustin'

I’m in a new country, I’m learning how to function

I came here in the back of a cargo ship

Had to hide out so I wouldn’t get caught in it

Across the Atlantic Ocean, crackers and water

That’s what I survived on, passin the border

We docked in the US, where all new enter

But I snuck off, dressed as a ship crew member

I got me a cousin up in Detroit, Michigan

Lemme go visit then search for and get with him

He got me a job that I could be sufficient in

But they at my door, they heard I ain’t a citizen

Now immigration wanna take me away

But my neighbor came out and she saved the day

Lied to INS, she saying I’m bae

And because of her, now I’m able to stay

Her name Annie Ray, and I dig how she maneuver

I owe her, I wanna give my last name to her

Part till death do us, and I became naturalized

But still get stared at awkward by passerbys

I could feel the hate stuck on like it’s magnetized

All of this is bullshit, why am I not that surprised

Xenophobes cringe, like im doing damage here

I just wanna earn my keep and bring my family here

Build a foundation for the future, feel it

My odds are better here than a Bangladeshi village

This is an immigration story and an immigration song

Want my immigration status every time I leave home

The US molest and possess every zone

The American dream is why I left home

Immigration story and an immigration song

Want my immigration status every time I leave home

The US molest and possess every zone

The American dream is why I left home

Got my H1B, I heard I could prosper here

Better benefits for me and it’s hotter here

Than what my country offers for the same career choice

It’s apples to oranges, a lack in proportionates

I came here the right way, visas and all

But people mad I’m here, wish they was seeing me fall

What I don’t understand, is how they justify the hatred

This wasn’t even theirs, they stole country from the natives

Now the uproar here’s the job that I’m paid in

Not my fault no one has qualifications

Not my fault that y’all made education

Unattainable unless you die making payments

So big corporations, made deals that would honor me

Bring me to get the job done, and sponsor me

But I’m by myself, and these nights getting colder

I want my fam here but that’s a prob to Ann Coulter

Simple minded fucks always act obnoxious

Point fingers at everything, but what the actual cause is

This is an immigration story and an immigration song

Want my immigration status every time I leave home

The US molest and possess every zone

The American dream is why I left home

Immigration story and an immigration song

Want my immigration status every time I leave home

The US molest and possess every zone

The American dream is why I left home