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