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wanna tell me what I am, what I am not "You ain't black, you a white boy Shut ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight Man, why you a hype boy?" "Why you always about being black? Skin too white, nigga that" Everything you talk about, cut That you trying to open, you could shut that the gat, yeah that's how I'ma 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 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 will have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get Masta deep inside of me The deep down inside of me Everybody fuck like 'Cause one or the what it gotta be me why my momma gotta lie to me Unity for everyone that to me
Peace on Earth I try to be
I just wanna 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 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, 7: 36 a.m., where a biracial was born To a black father and a white Father that wasn't Addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and other drugs as his mom (Way, way back) So I'm gonna tell you that, right? And I'm tell you about how All this boy ever wanted was happiness All he wanted was positivity All he wanted to do was entertain And boy went through hell You gotta understand, his mother was racist, is crazy how in the fuck 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 grew up, her him a nigger The kids at callin' him a cracker as black, looking as white Being what you can or can't be kid went through everything He through He saw in the household Violence, murderers, drug dealers, he was There was crazy that happened to this kid And he while the whole world said What they you wouldn't be shit! You ain't gon' be nothin', nothin', nothin', Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', And I, and he, he said fuck that, persevere And that's why the is always peace, love and positivity See, he always saw from two sides He always saw things from two He always knew that the Everybody was equal Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual He knew that 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 that did not And he was stripped and he was down By his white side did not know These people are ignorant That cannot see the bigger That must fight and kill and each other But once again, all he ever to do Was spread a message of 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 this child growing up And seeing the shit Being a part of the shit Running around with the people around with guns and knives And fighting and and, and all this Because he didn't know, he know! But he knew down in his heart that it wasn't right And he knew that he needed to get from it Now I want you to also imagine, at 17 years old child, okay, leaves home and gets two jobs to support himself Two jobs he works in the morning and the evenings And he would then come home To about eight or hours of sleep But spend four, five, six of that on music, persevering Grabbing the remote control and looking in the And pretending to see thousands and thousands and of people Just 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 black No-no! (Take it back, it way back it way, way back to the first) And he said that He said peace, love, and He said for all man Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and orientation, yeah Now I want you to also People telling him he did not live this life "You just a boy You never experienced that shit You Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there Oh no, no, we know, we weren't 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 saw it from the outside, outside, outside, outside Outside, outside, outside, And since you white, you gotta money, right?" (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way back to the first man) 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 that man is today, proud A of all human beings Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, orientation, yeah, yeah And here to say Even we're all born and created equal 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 as they're not hurtin' anybody You can they're going to hell You can believe it's not You can believe you're superior, stop killing each other