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1] Everybody wanna 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 about black? Skin too white, nigga that" Everything you about, cut that That door you trying to open, you could shut Grip the gat, yeah that's how I'ma back me what I am and what I know now All this has got to go Life is fast, it need to slow down Come and see me I am in yo' town what we preach before 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 inside of me fuck like sodomy 'Cause one or the other it gotta be Tell me why my momma lie to me Unity for everyone lied to me Peace on Earth I try to be I just wanna spread the 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, it way back Take it way, way back to 1990 Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland a.m., where a biracial baby was born To a father and a white mother Father that wasn't 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 gonna tell you how All this young boy ever was happiness All he ever was positivity All he ever to do was entertain And this boy went hell You gotta understand, his was racist, which is crazy 'Cause how in the fuck is you have All these black babies with black men but you bitch, that don't make no sense, but it is what it is You know, he up, her callin' him a nigger The at school callin' him a cracker as black, looking as white Being told you can or can't be This kid went everything He through... He saw in the household Violence, murderers, dealers, he was kidnapped There was crazy shit that to this kid And he persevered while the world said they said? Said you 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 message is always peace, and positivity See, he always saw from two sides He always saw things two sides He always knew the message Everybody was born Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual He that because he saw that (Take it back, it way back it way) Because he was stripped and down By his black brothers and sisters were uneducated And did not know And he was stripped and he was torn By his white that did not know These people that are That cannot see the bigger That must fight and kill and each other But once again, all he wanted to do Was a message 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 this child growing up And the craziest shit Being a of the craziest shit around with the wrong people Running around with guns and And fighting and and, and all this Because he didn't know, he know! But he knew deep down in his heart it wasn't right And he knew he needed to get away from it Now I you to also 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 then he then come home To about eight or nine hours of But four, five, six hours of that on music, persevering Grabbing the control and looking in the mirror And pretending to see and thousands and thousands of people Just his name 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 black No-no! (Take it back, it way back it way, way back to the first) And he said that He peace, love, and positivity He said for all man Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation, Now I want you to imagine People telling him that he did not live life "You a white boy You ain't never experienced that You from Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing 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 just saw it from the outside, outside, outside, Outside, outside, outside, And since you white, you have money, right?" And this man persevered in spite Of what people told him he was, wasn't, and would be (Take it back, take it way it way, way back to the first black) And man is here today, proud A lover of all human Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, And he's here to Even though all born and created equal We are not treated extremists on every side And you just do your best to live life And let other people believe whatever wanna believe As long as they're not anybody You can they're going to hell You can it's not right You can believe you're superior, stop killing each other