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1] Everybody wanna tell me what I am, I am not "You ain't black, you a mothafuckin' boy ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight boy? Man, why you such a boy?" "Why you always talk being black? Skin too white, nigga that" you talk about, cut that That door you trying to open, you shut that Grip the gat, yeah that's how I'ma back Tell me what I am and I know now All this has got to go Life is moving fast, it need to down and see me when I am in yo' town Practice what we preach it go down Practice 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 have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get deep down inside of me The plantation deep down of me Everybody like sodomy 'Cause one or the other it gotta be Tell me why my momma lie to me Unity for everyone that to me Peace on Earth I try to be I just 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 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 back to 1990 Shady Hospital in Rockville, Maryland 7:36 a.m., where a 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 gonna tell you about that, And I'm tell you about how All this young boy ever was happiness All he wanted was positivity All he wanted to do was entertain And this boy through hell You gotta understand, his mother was racist, is crazy 'Cause how in the is you gonna have All black babies with black men but you racist 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 him a cracker as black, looking as white Being what you can or can't be kid went through everything He through... He saw narcotics in the Violence, murderers, drug dealers, he was There was crazy shit that happened to kid And he persevered the whole world said What 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 message is peace, love and positivity See, he saw things from two sides He always saw from two sides He always knew that the was born equal Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual He knew that he saw that (Take it back, it way back it way) Because he was stripped and torn By his black brothers and sisters that uneducated And that did not And he was and he was torn down By his white side did not know These people that are That cannot see the bigger That fight and kill and murder each other But again, all he ever wanted to do Was a message of equality For man, woman, and child of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation (Take it back, it way back it way, way back to the first) Now imagine this growing up And the craziest shit Being a part of the shit Running around with the wrong Running around guns and knives And fighting and and, and all this he didn't know, he didn't know! But he knew deep down in his heart it wasn't right And he knew that he to get away from it Now I want you to imagine, that at 17 years old This child, okay, leaves home and gets two to support himself Two jobs that he in the morning and the evenings And he would then come home To about eight or nine hours of But spend four, five, six hours of Working on music, Grabbing the remote control and looking in the And pretending to see thousands and and thousands of people chanting his name Hoping it would happen 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 black No-no! (Take it back, it way back Take it way, way to the first) And he fuck that He said peace, love, and He equality for all man of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation, yeah Now I want you to imagine People telling him he did not live this life "You just a boy You ain't never experienced that You Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there Oh no, no, we know, we there We didn't live with you, we live in your Section 8 household We didn't live with the and violence in your 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 in spite Of what people told him he was, wasn't, and would be (Take it back, it way back it way, way back to the first black) And man is here today, proud A lover of all human of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, yeah And he's to say: Even we're all born and created equal We are not treated There's extremists on every And you should just do your best to live And let other believe whatever they wanna believe As long as not hurtin' anybody You can believe they're going to You can believe it's not You can you're superior, fine Just stop killing each