Take It Back (把它带回) - Logic
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 f**k 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 f**k it
I'ma steal this land
Everybody wanna tell me what I am what I am not
You ain't black you a mothaf**kin' white boy
Shut ya mouth do it right boy aight boy
Man why you such a hype boy
Why you always talk about being black
Skin too white ni**a f**k 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 f**k like sodomy
Because 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 f**k 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 f**k 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
7:36 am where a biracial baby was born
To a black father and a white mother
Father that wasn't there addicted to crack coc*ine alcohol and various other drugs
Same as his mom
Way way back
So I'm gonna tell you about that 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
Because how in the f**k is you gonna have all these black babies
With black men but you racist
Like b**ch that don't make no sense
But it is what it is
You know he grew up her callin' him a ni**a
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
He saw violence murderers drug dealers
He was kidnapped there was crazy sh*t that happened to this kid
And he persevered while the whole world said
What they said
Said you wouldn't be sh*t
You ain't gon be nothin' nothin' nothin' nothin'
And I and he he said f**k that I'ma persevere
And that's why the message is always peace love and positivity
And 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 back
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 sh*t
Being a part of the craziest sh*t
Running around with the wrong people
Running around with guns and knives and fighting and stealing 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
Mothaf**ka little mothaf**ka no no no no no no no no
Ya ni**a ya cracka ya white boy ya black mothaf**ka
No no
Take it back take it way back
Take it way way back
And he said f**k 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 also want you to imagine people telling him
That he did not live this life
You just a white boy you ain't never experienced that sh*t
You from gaithersburg maryland nothing happens there
Oh no no we no we weren't there we didn't live with you
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
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 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
Believe you're superior fine
Just stop killing each other
