#PaulWall shared on The Breakfast Club that he discovered his race around middle school age. "I didn't know I was white 'til white people told me I was white," Wall said. "They was like, 'You white. Why you talk and act like that? You white. And I'm like, what do you mean?'" "I mean, all my friends were Black or Mexican or Asian," he said. "I lived in a very diverse neighborhood. There were white people there, but it was Mexican, Black, Vietnamese, Indian ... A lot of everything.