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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 right boy, a'ight Man, why you a hype boy?" "Why you always talk being black? Skin too white, nigga that" you talk about, cut that That you trying to open, you could shut that Grip the gat, yeah that's how I'ma buck Tell me I am and what I know now All prejudice has got to go Life is moving fast, it to slow down and see me when I am in yo' town Practice we preach before it go down what 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 to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the? Masta deep inside of me The plantation deep down 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 what 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, it way back Take it way, way back to about Grove Hospital in Rockville, Maryland 7:36 a.m., where a baby was born To a father and a white mother Father wasn't there Addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and various drugs as his mom (Way, way back) So I'm gonna you about that, right? And I'm gonna you about how All this young boy ever wanted was All he wanted 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 gonna All these babies with black men but you racist Like bitch, don't make no sense, but it is what it is You know, he grew up, her callin' him a The kids at callin' him a cracker as black, looking as white Being told 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 happened to this kid And he persevered while the world said they said? Said you be shit! You ain't be nothin', 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, love and See, he always saw things two sides He always saw things two sides He always that the message Everybody was equal Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and orientation He that because he saw that (Take it back, take it way it way) Because he was stripped and torn By his black brothers and sisters were uneducated And did not know And he was and he was torn down By his side that did not know people that are ignorant That cannot see the bigger That must fight and kill and murder other But once again, all he ever to do Was spread a of equality For every man, woman, and of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation (Take it back, it way back it way, way back to the first) Now this child growing up And seeing the craziest a part of the craziest shit Running with the wrong people Running around with and knives And and stealing and, and all this Because he didn't know, he know! But he deep down in his heart that it wasn't right And he knew he needed to get away from it Now I want you to also imagine, at 17 years old This child, okay, leaves and gets two jobs to support himself Two jobs he works in the morning and the evenings And then he then come home To about or nine hours of sleep But four, five, six hours of that Working on music, Grabbing the remote control and looking in the And pretending to see thousands and thousands and thousands of Just his name Hoping that it would But the, but the, but the said no! Mothafucka, little no-no, no-no, no-no, no-no Ya nigga, ya cracka, ya white boy, ya mothafucka No-no! (Take it back, take it way it way, way back to the first) And he said fuck He said peace, love, and He equality for all man Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation, Now I you to also imagine People him that he did not live this life "You a white boy You never experienced that shit You from Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing there Oh no, no, we know, we there 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 just saw it the outside, outside, outside, outside Outside, outside, outside, And since you white, you gotta money, right?" And this young man persevered in Of what people told him he was, wasn't, and never be (Take it back, it way back Take it way, way back to the black) And man is here today, proud A of all human beings Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, And he's here to Even though we're all born and created We are not equally extremists on every side And you just do your best to live life And let other people whatever they wanna believe As as they're not hurtin' anybody You can believe they're going to You can believe it's not You can believe you're superior, Just stop killing other