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1] Everybody tell me what I am, what I am not "You black, you a mothafuckin' white boy Shut ya mouth, do it right boy, boy? Man, why you such a boy?" "Why you always talk about being too white, nigga fuck that" Everything you talk about, cut That door you to open, you could shut that Grip the gat, that's how I'ma buck back me what I am and what I know now All prejudice has got to go is moving fast, it need to slow down Come and see me I am in yo' town Practice we preach before it go down Practice what we preach it go Yes, I got the to gab fo sho I have to get the gat? No, no Yes, I got to to gab fo sho But have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the? Masta down inside of me The plantation deep down of me Everybody like sodomy 'Cause one or the other what it be Tell me why my gotta lie to me Unity for everyone that to me Peace on Earth I try to be I wanna spread the message of equality And yes, I got to to gab fo sho Will I have to get the No, no Yes, I got to to gab fo sho But have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the gat?
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Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to about 1990 Shady Hospital in Rockville, Maryland 7:36 a.m., a biracial baby was born To a father and a white mother that wasn't there Addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and various drugs as his mom (Way, way back) So I'm tell you about that, right? And I'm tell you about how All this boy ever wanted was happiness All he ever wanted was All he wanted to do was entertain And this boy through hell You gotta understand, his mother was racist, which is how in the fuck is you gonna have All these black babies with men but you racist Like bitch, that don't no sense, but it is what it is You know, he grew up, her callin' him a The kids at callin' him a cracker Identifying as black, as white Being what you can or can't be kid went through everything He through... He saw in the household Violence, murderers, drug dealers, he was There was crazy shit that happened to kid And he persevered while the whole world What they Said you be shit! You ain't be nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin' Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', And I, and he, he said fuck that, persevere And that's why the message is peace, love and positivity See, he always saw things from two He always saw from two sides He knew that the message Everybody was born Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual He knew that because he saw (Take it back, it way back it way) Because he was stripped and down By his black and sisters that were uneducated And that did not And he was and he was torn down By his white that did not know These that are ignorant That cannot see the picture That must fight and kill and murder other But again, all he ever wanted to do Was a message of equality For man, woman, and child Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to the first) Now imagine this child up And seeing the shit a part of the craziest shit Running with the wrong people Running around with guns and And and stealing and, and all this Because he didn't know, he know! But he knew deep down in his heart that it right And he that he needed to get away from it Now I want you to imagine, that at 17 years old child, okay, leaves home and gets two jobs to support himself Two jobs that he in the morning and the evenings And then he then come home To eight or nine hours of sleep But spend four, five, six hours of Working on music, Grabbing the remote control and in the mirror And pretending to see thousands and and thousands of people chanting his name Hoping it would happen But the, but the, but the world no! Mothafucka, little mothafucka no-no, no-no, no-no, Ya nigga, ya cracka, ya boy, ya black mothafucka No-no! (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to the first) And he said that He said peace, love, and He said for all man Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and orientation, yeah Now I want you to imagine People telling him that he did not live this "You a white boy You ain't never experienced that You from Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens Oh no, no, we know, we weren't We didn't live with you, we didn't live in your Section 8 We didn't live with the narcotics and violence in household We saw it from the outside, outside, outside, outside Outside, outside, outside, And you white, you gotta have money, right?" And this young man persevered in Of people told him he was, wasn't, and would never be (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to the first black) And man is here today, proud A of all human beings Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, And he's here to Even though we're all and created equal We are not equally There's extremists on every And you should just do your best to live And let other people believe whatever they wanna As long as they're not anybody You can believe going to hell You can believe it's not You can believe you're superior, Just stop killing other