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1] Everybody wanna tell me what I am, I am not "You ain't black, you a mothafuckin' boy Shut ya mouth, do it boy, a'ight boy? Man, why you such a boy?" "Why you always talk about black? Skin too white, nigga that" Everything you talk about, cut That door you trying to open, you shut that Grip the gat, yeah that's how buck back me what I am and what I know now All this has got to go Life is fast, it need to slow down and see me when I am in yo' town Practice what we preach it go down what we preach before 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 will have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get Masta down inside of me The plantation down inside of me Everybody fuck sodomy 'Cause one or the other it gotta be Tell me why my gotta lie to me Unity for that lied 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 to get the gat? No, no Yes, I got to to gab fo sho But will 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 Grove Hospital in Rockville, a.m., where a biracial baby was born To a black father and a mother Father wasn't there Addicted to cocaine, alcohol, and various other drugs as his mom (Way, way back) So I'm gonna tell you about that, 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 went through You gotta understand, his mother was racist, which is 'Cause how in the is you gonna have All these black babies with black men but you Like bitch, that don't no sense, but it is what it is You know, he up, her callin' him a nigger The kids at school callin' him a as black, looking as white Being told you can or can't be This kid went everything He through... He saw narcotics in the Violence, murderers, dealers, he was kidnapped There was shit that happened to this kid And he persevered while the world said 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 fuck that, I'ma persevere And why the message is always peace, love and positivity See, he always saw things from two He always saw things from two He always that the message was born equal Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and orientation He that because he saw that (Take it back, take it way it way) Because he was and torn down By his brothers and sisters that were uneducated And did not know And he was stripped and he was torn By his white side did not know These that are ignorant That cannot see the picture That must fight and kill and murder each But once again, all he wanted to do Was spread a of equality For every man, woman, and of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation (Take it back, take it way it way, way back to the first) Now imagine child growing up And seeing the craziest Being a part of the shit Running around with the people Running around with and knives And and stealing and, and all this he didn't know, he didn't know! But he knew deep down in his heart that it wasn't And he knew he needed to get away from it Now I want you to also imagine, that at 17 old This child, okay, leaves home and two jobs to support himself Two jobs that he works in the morning and the And he would then come home To about eight or hours of sleep But four, five, six hours of that on music, persevering Grabbing the remote control and looking in the And pretending to see and thousands 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 white boy, ya mothafucka No-no! (Take it back, take it way it way, way back to the first) And he said that He said peace, love, and He equality for all man of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation, yeah Now I you to also imagine People telling him that he did not live life "You just a boy You ain't experienced that shit You Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there Oh no, no, we know, we there We didn't live with you, we didn't in your Section 8 household 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?" And young man persevered in spite Of what told him he was, wasn't, and would never be (Take it back, it way back Take it way, way to the first black) And that man is today, proud A of all human beings Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, orientation, yeah, yeah And he's to say: Even though we're all and created equal We are not treated There's extremists on every And you just do your best to live life And let people believe whatever they wanna believe As long as they're not anybody You can believe they're going to You can it's not right You can believe you're superior, Just stop each other