Take It Back

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first black man

Long ago before the white man could

Paint the black man with a gun in his hand

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first white man

At the very moment when they looked around

And said fuck it I'ma steal this land

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first black man

Long ago before the white man could

Paint the black man with a gun in his hand

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first white man

At the very moment when they looked around

And said fuck it I'ma steal this land

Everybody wanna tell me what I am

What I am not

You ain't black, you a mothafuckin white boy

Shut ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight boy

Man why you such a hype boy

Why you always talk about being black

Skin too white, nigga fuck that

Everything you talk about, cut that

That door you trying

To open you could shut that

Grip the gat yeah

That's how I'ma buck back

Tell me what I am and what I know now

All this prejudice has got to go

Life is moving fast it need to slow down

Come and see me when I am in yo town

Practice what we preach before it go down

Practice what we preach before it go

Yes I got the gift to gab fo sho

Will I have to get the gat, no no

Yes I got to get the gat fo sho

But will have to get the gat

Get the gat, get the gat

Masta deep down inside of me

The plantation deep down inside of me

Everybody fuck like sodomy

Cause one or the other what it gotta be

Tell me why my momma gotta lie to me

Unity for everyone that lied to me

Peace on earth what I try to be

I just wanna spread the message of equality

Yes I got to get the gat fo sho

Will I have to get the gat, no no

Yes I got to get the gat fo sho

But will have to get the gat

Get the gat, get the gat

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first black man

Long ago before the white man could

Paint the black man with a gun in his hand

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first white man

At the very moment when they looked around

And said fuck it I'ma steal this land

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first black man

Long ago before the white man could

Paint the black man with a gun in his hand

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first white man

At the very moment when they looked around

And said fuck it I'ma steal this land

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to about 1990

Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, Maryland

7:36am. Where a biracial baby was born

To a black father and a white mother

Father that wasn't there

Addicted to crack cocaine

Alcohol, and various other drugs

Same as his mom

Way, way back

So I'm gonna tell you about that, right

I'm gonna tell you about how

All this young boy ever wanted was Happiness

All he ever wanted was positivity

All he ever wanted to do was entertain

And this boy went through hell

You gotta understand, his mother was racist

Which is crazy

Cause how in the fuck is

You gonna have all these black babies

With black men, but you racist

Like bitch, that don't make sense

But it is what it is

You know, he grew up

Her callin him a nigga

The kids at school callin him a cracker

Identifying as black, looking as white

Being told what you can or can't be

This kid went through everything

He went through

He saw narcotics in the household

Violence, murderers, drug dealers

He was kidnapped, there was crazy shit

That happened to this kid

And he persevered while the whole world said

What they said

Said you wouldn't be shit!

You ain't gon be

Nothin, nothin, nothin, nothin

Nothin, nothin, nothin, nothin

Nothin, nothin, nothin

And I, and he, he said fuck that

I'ma persevere

And that's why the message is

Always peace, love and positivity

See, he always saw things from two sides

He always saw things from two sides

He always knew that the message

Everybody, was born equal

Regardless of race, religion

Color, creed, and sexual orientation

He knew that because he saw that

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way

Because he was stripped

And torn down by

His black brothers and sisters

That were uneducated and that did not know

And he was stripped

And he was torn down by

His white side that did not know

These people that are ignorant

That cannot see the bigger picture

That must fight, and kill

And murder each other

But once again, all he ever wanted to do

Was spread a message

Of equality

For every man, woman, and child

Regardless of race, religion

Color, creed, and sexual orientation

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first

Now imagine this child growing up

And seeing the craziest shit

Being a part of the craziest shit

Running around with the wrong people

Running around with guns

And knives and fighting and stealing and

And all this, because he didn't know

He didn't know!

But he knew deep down in his heart

That it wasn't right

And he knew that

He needed to get away from it

Now I want you to also imagine

That at 17 years old

This child, okay, leaves home

And gets two jobs to support himself

Two jobs that he works

In the morning and the evenings

And then he would

Then come home to about

8 or 9 hours of sleep

But spend 4, 5, 6 hours of

That working on music, persevering

Grabbing the remote control

And looking in the mirror

And pretending to see thousands

And thousands and thousands of people

Just chanting his name

Hoping that it would happen

But the, but the

But the world said No!

Mothafucka

Little mothafucka no no, no no, no no, no no

Ya nigga, ya cracka

Ya white boy, ya black mothafucka

No no!

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first

And he said fuck that

He said peace, love, and positivity

He said equality for all man

Regardless of race, religion

Color, creed, and sexual orientation

Yeah

Now I want you to also imagine people

Telling him that he did not live this life

You just a white boy

You ain't never experienced that shit

You from Gaithersburg, Maryland

Nothing happens there

Oh no, no, we no, we weren't there

We didn't live with you

We didn't live

In your Section 8 household

We didn't live with the narcotics

And violence in your household

We just saw it from the outside

Outside, outside, outside

Outside, outside, outside

Outside

And since you white

You gotta have money, right

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first black man

And this young man persevered in spite

Of what people told him he was

Wasn't, would

And would never be

Take it back, take it way back

Take it way way back to the first black

And that man is here today, proud

A lover of all human beings

Regardless of race, religion

Color, creed, and sexual orientation

Yeah, yeah

And he's here to say

Even though we're all born and created equal

We are not treated equally

There's extremists on every side

And you should just do your best to live life

And let other people believe

Whatever they wanna believe

As long as they're not hurtin anybody

You can believe they're going to hell

You can believe it's not right

You can believe you're superior, fine

Just stop killing each other