Paul Wall is Houston royalty. The rapper dominated the mixtape scene alongside Chamillionaire within the late 90s and early 2000s. He broke out as a industrial pressure within the mid-2000s, and has remained a fixture on the scene ever since. Paul Wall just lately shocked followers, nonetheless, when he dove into his youth and his experiences rising up in Texas. He instructed the Breakfast Membership that he grew up in a really numerous neighborhood, and as such, was unaware of his personal ethnicity for years.

Paul Wall instructed the radio panel that he wasn’t made aware of his whiteness till he was in center faculty. “I did not know I used to be white ’til white folks instructed me I used to be white,” the rapper stated. “They was like, ‘You white. Why you speak and act like that? You white. And I am like, what do you imply?'” Wall felt the confusion was a results of the various teams of children he frolicked with previous to attending faculty. “I imply, all my pals have been Black or Mexican or Asian,” he asserted. “I lived in a really numerous neighborhood. There have been white folks there, but it surely was Mexican, Black, Vietnamese, Indian … Quite a lot of every little thing.”

Paul Wall pointed to his bond with Chamillionaire as proof. He famous that the “Ridin” rapper was born to a Nigerian father, which he discovered whereas the 2 have been attending highschool collectively. Wall did reveal that his mom took a DNA take a look at to find out the household’s actual family tree, nonetheless. She found that she was 3% African American, which led to Wall cracking a joke about what she will be able to and may’t get away with. “I do know she will be able to’t say the N-word, that ain’t sufficient for her to say the N-word,” he quipped.

Paul Wall mentioned the “white rapper” label throughout a 2020 interview with Complicated. He instructed the outlet that he by no means tried to emulate the types of different white rappers, and as a substitute listened to Black artists like Massive Pokey, Massive Moe and Mr. Scarface. “I by no means considered it like that is one thing I shouldn’t be doing,” he opined. “As a result of although white rappers have been out, I wasn’t following them. No disrespect supposed, I simply didn’t observe that lane, I adopted this one.” Paul Wall’s iconic standing within the sport proves he made the correct name.