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1] Everybody wanna me what I am, what I am not "You ain't black, you a white boy ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight boy? Man, why you such a boy?" "Why you talk about being black? Skin too white, fuck that" you talk about, cut that That door you trying to open, you shut that Grip the gat, that's how I'ma buck back Tell me what I am and I know now All this has got to go Life is moving fast, it need to slow Come and see me I am in yo' town Practice what we preach it go down Practice what we preach it go Yes, I got the to gab fo sho Will I 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 down inside of me The plantation deep inside of me fuck like sodomy 'Cause one or the what it gotta be Tell me why my momma lie to me for everyone that lied to me Peace on what I try to be I just wanna spread the message of 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 have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the gat?
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Take it back, take it way it way, way back to about 1990 Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, 7:36 a.m., where a biracial was born To a black and a white mother that wasn't there Addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and other drugs as his mom (Way, way back) So I'm tell you about that, right? And I'm gonna you about how All this young boy wanted was happiness All he ever was positivity All he ever wanted to do was And boy went through hell You understand, his mother was racist, which is crazy how in the fuck is you gonna have All these babies with black men but you racist Like bitch, that make no sense, but it is what it is You know, he up, her callin' him a nigger The kids at school him a cracker Identifying as black, looking as Being told 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 shit happened to this kid And he while the whole world said What said? you wouldn't be shit! You ain't be nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin' Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', And I, and he, he said fuck that, I'ma And that's why the message is always peace, and positivity See, he saw things from two sides He always saw things from two He always knew the message Everybody was born Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual He knew that because he saw (Take it back, it way back it way) Because he was stripped and torn By his black brothers and that were uneducated And did not know And he was and he was torn down By his white that did not know people that are ignorant 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 every man, woman, and Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual (Take it back, it way back it way, way back to the first) Now this child growing up And seeing the craziest Being a part of the craziest Running around the wrong people Running around with and knives And and stealing and, and all this he didn't know, he didn't know! But he knew deep down in his heart that it wasn't And he that he needed to get away from it Now I want you to also imagine, that at 17 old This child, okay, home and gets two jobs to support himself Two that he works in the morning and the evenings And then he would come home To eight 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 of people chanting his name Hoping that it happen 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, take it way it way, way back to the first) And he said that He said peace, love, and He said for all man of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation, yeah Now I you to also imagine People telling him that he did not this life "You just a boy You never experienced that shit You from Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens Oh no, no, we know, we weren't We didn't live with you, we didn't 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 persevered in Of what told him he was, wasn't, and would never be (Take it back, it way back Take it way, way to the first black) And man is here today, proud A lover of all beings of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, yeah And he's here to though 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 people believe they wanna believe As as they're not hurtin' anybody You can believe they're going to You can it's not right You can believe superior, fine Just stop killing each