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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 a hype boy?" "Why you talk about being black? Skin too white, fuck that" Everything you about, cut that That you trying to open, you could shut that Grip the gat, yeah how I'ma buck back Tell me I am and what I know now All prejudice has got to go Life is moving fast, it need to slow Come and see me I am in yo' town Practice what we before it go down Practice what we before 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 to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the? deep down inside of me The deep down inside of me Everybody like sodomy one or the other what 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 wanna spread 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 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 baby was To a black father and a white Father that wasn't Addicted to cocaine, alcohol, and various other drugs as his mom (Way, way back) So I'm gonna tell you that, right? And I'm gonna tell you how All young boy ever wanted was happiness All he ever wanted was 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 these black babies black men but you racist bitch, that don't make no sense, but it is what it is You know, he grew up, her callin' him a The kids at school callin' him a Identifying as black, as white Being told what you can or be This kid went through He through... He saw narcotics in the Violence, murderers, drug dealers, he was There was crazy that happened to this kid And he while the whole world said What they 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 from two sides He always saw things from two He knew that the message Everybody was born of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation He knew 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 stripped and he was down By his white side did not know These that are ignorant That cannot see the bigger That must fight and kill and each other But once again, all he ever 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 Take it way, way to the first) Now this child growing up And seeing the shit Being a part of the craziest Running around the wrong people Running with guns and knives And and stealing and, and all this Because he know, he didn't know! But he knew deep down in his heart that it 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 that he works in the morning and the And he would then come home To about eight or nine hours of But four, five, six hours of that Working on music, Grabbing the remote control and in the mirror And pretending to see and thousands and thousands of people Just his name that it would happen But the, but the, but the world no! Mothafucka, little mothafucka no-no, no-no, no-no, Ya nigga, ya cracka, ya boy, ya black mothafucka No-no! (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to the first) And he said that He said peace, love, and He equality 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 this life "You just a boy You ain't never experienced shit You Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there Oh no, no, we know, we weren't We didn't live you, we didn't live in your Section 8 household We didn't live with the narcotics and violence in your We saw it from the outside, outside, outside, outside Outside, outside, outside, And since you white, you gotta money, right?" And young man persevered in spite Of what people told him he was, wasn't, and would be (Take it back, take it way Take it way, way to the first black) And that man is today, proud A lover of all beings Regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation, yeah, And here to say: Even though we're all and created equal We are not equally extremists on every side And you should just do your best to life And let other people believe whatever they wanna As long as they're not anybody You can believe they're going to You can it's not right You can you're superior, fine Just stop killing each