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1] Everybody tell me what 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, nigga that" Everything you talk about, cut That door you trying to open, you could shut Grip the gat, yeah that's how I'ma back Tell me what I am and I know now All prejudice has got to go Life is fast, it need to slow down and see me when I am in yo' town Practice we preach before it go down what we preach before it go Yes, I got the to gab fo sho Will I have to get the No, no Yes, I got to to gab fo sho But will to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the? Masta deep inside of me The plantation deep inside of me Everybody like sodomy 'Cause one or the other what it be me why my momma gotta lie to me Unity for everyone lied to me Peace on what I try to be I just 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 will have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the
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Take it back, it way back 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 that wasn't there Addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and various drugs as his mom (Way, way back) So I'm gonna tell you about that, And I'm tell you about how All this young boy wanted was happiness All he wanted was positivity All he ever wanted to do was And this boy through hell You gotta understand, his was racist, which is crazy 'Cause how in the is you gonna have All black babies with black men but you racist Like bitch, that make no sense, but it is what it is You know, he up, her callin' him a nigger The kids at school callin' him a Identifying as black, looking as told what you can or can't be This kid 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 said? Said you be shit! You ain't gon' be nothin', nothin', nothin', Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', And I, and he, he fuck 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 knew the message was born equal Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual He knew that because he saw (Take it back, take it way it way) Because he was stripped and torn By his black and sisters that were uneducated And did not know And he was stripped and he was torn By his white side that did not These people are ignorant That see the bigger picture That fight and kill and murder each other But once again, all he ever to do Was a message of equality For every man, woman, and Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and orientation (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to the first) Now imagine this child up And the craziest shit Being a part of the shit around with the wrong people Running around with and knives And fighting and stealing and, and all Because he didn't know, he know! But he knew deep down in his heart that it wasn't And he knew that he needed to get away it Now I want you to imagine, that 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 would then come To eight or nine hours of sleep But spend four, five, six hours of Working on music, the remote control and looking in the mirror And pretending to see and thousands and thousands of people Just chanting his 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 boy, ya black mothafucka No-no! (Take it back, it way back Take it way, way to the first) And he said that He peace, love, and positivity He equality for all man Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and orientation, yeah Now I want you to imagine telling him that he did not live this life "You a white boy You ain't experienced that shit You Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there Oh no, no, we know, we weren't We live with you, we didn't live in your Section 8 household We didn't live the narcotics and violence in your household We saw it from the outside, outside, outside, outside Outside, outside, outside, And since you white, you gotta money, right?" And this young man in spite Of what people him he was, wasn't, and would never be (Take it back, it way back it way, way back to the first black) And that man is here today, A lover of all beings of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, yeah And he's to say: Even though we're all born and created We are not equally extremists on every side And you should just do best to live life And let other people believe whatever they believe As long as they're not hurtin' You can they're going to hell You can it's not right You can believe superior, fine stop killing each other