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1] Everybody wanna tell me what I am, I am not "You ain't black, you a white boy ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight boy? Man, why you a hype boy?" "Why you talk about being black? too white, nigga fuck that" Everything you talk about, cut That door you trying to open, you could that Grip the gat, yeah that's how buck back Tell me what I am and I know now All prejudice has got to go Life is moving fast, it need to down Come and see me when I am in yo' Practice what we preach before it go Practice what we before it go Yes, I got the to gab fo sho Will I 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 deep down of me The plantation deep down of me Everybody fuck like 'Cause one or the other what it be me why my momma gotta lie to me Unity for everyone 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 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 gat?
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Take it back, it way back it way, way back to about 1990 Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, 7:36 a.m., a biracial baby was born To a black father and a mother Father that there Addicted to cocaine, alcohol, and various other 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 was positivity All he ever wanted to do was And this boy went hell You understand, his mother was racist, which is crazy 'Cause how in the fuck is you 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 kids at school him a cracker as black, looking as white Being what you can or can't be This kid through everything He through... He saw narcotics in the Violence, murderers, dealers, he was kidnapped was crazy shit that happened to this kid And he persevered while the 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 that's why the is always peace, love and positivity See, he always saw things from two He always saw things from two He always that the message Everybody was equal 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 torn By his black brothers and sisters were uneducated And that did not And he was stripped and he was torn By his white that did not know These that are ignorant cannot see the bigger picture That must fight and kill and murder each But once again, all he wanted to do Was spread a of equality For man, woman, and child of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to the first) Now imagine this growing up And seeing the shit a part of the craziest shit Running around with the wrong Running with guns and knives And fighting and stealing and, and all Because he know, he didn't 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 also imagine, that at 17 old This child, okay, leaves home and two jobs to support himself Two jobs that he in the morning and the evenings And he would then come home To eight or nine hours of sleep But spend four, five, six of that Working on music, Grabbing the remote 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 said no! Mothafucka, mothafucka 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 said that He said peace, love, and He said for all man Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation, Now I you to also imagine People telling him that he did not this life "You just a boy You ain't never that shit You Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there Oh no, no, we know, we there We didn't with you, we didn't live in your Section 8 household We didn't live with the narcotics and violence in your 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 people told him he was, wasn't, and would never be (Take it back, take it way it way, way back to the first black) And that man is here today, A lover of all human Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, And here to say: Even though we're all and created equal We are not equally extremists on every side And you should just do your to live life And let other believe whatever they wanna believe As long as they're not hurtin' You can believe going to hell You can it's not right You can believe superior, fine Just stop killing other