Take It Back (Explicit)-Logic

[ti:Take It Back] [ar:Logic] [al:Everybody (Deluxe)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Take It Back (Explicit) - Logic [00:00.17]Take it back take it way back [00:01.21]Take it way way back to the first black man [00:03.31] [00:03.90]Long ago before the white man could paint the black man [00:05.98]With a gun in his hand [00:07.14]Take it back take it way back [00:08.43]Take it way way back to the first white man [00:10.88]At the very moment when they looked around and said f**k it [00:13.25]I'ma steal this land [00:14.39]Take it back take it way back [00:15.42]Take it way way back to the first black man [00:17.24] [00:18.04]Long ago before the white man could paint the black man [00:20.14]With a gun in his hand [00:21.45]Take it back take it way back [00:22.52]Take it way way back to the first white man [00:24.56] [00:25.22]At the very moment when they looked around and said f**k it [00:27.27]I'ma steal this land [00:28.54]Everybody wanna tell me what I am what I am not [00:30.58]You ain't black you a mothaf**kin' white boy [00:32.50]Shut ya mouth do it right boy aight boy [00:34.30]Man why you such a hype boy [00:35.70]Why you always talk about being black [00:37.29] [00:37.89]Skin too white ni**a f**k that [00:39.15] [00:39.83]Everything you talk about cut that [00:40.94] [00:42.77]That door you trying to open you could shut that [00:44.33]Grip the gat yeah that's how I'ma buck back [00:46.26]Tell me what I am and what I know now [00:47.95]All this prejudice has got to go [00:49.70]Life is moving fast it need to slow down [00:51.50]Come and see me when I am in yo town [00:53.32]Practice what we preach before it go down [00:55.26]Practice what we preach before it go [00:56.78]Yes I got the gift to gab fo sho [00:58.60]Will I have to get the gat no no [01:00.43]Yes I got to get the gat fo sho [01:02.04]But will have to get the gat get the gat get the gat [01:04.05]Masta deep down inside of me [01:05.59]The plantation deep down inside of me [01:07.53]Everybody f**k like sodomy [01:08.71] [01:09.27]Because one or the other what it gotta be [01:11.20]Tell me why my momma gotta lie to me [01:12.85]Unity for everyone that lied to me [01:14.75]Peace on earth what I try to be [01:16.34]I just wanna spread the message of equality [01:18.13]Yes I got to get the gat fo sho [01:19.98]Will I have to get the gat no no [01:21.68]Yes I got to get the gat fo sho [01:23.45]But will have to get the gat get the gat get the gat [01:25.54]Take it back take it way back [01:26.63]Take it way way back to the first black man [01:29.08]Long ago before the white man could paint the black man [01:31.19]With a gun in his hand [01:32.67]Take it back take it way back [01:33.67]Take it way way back to the first white man [01:36.12]At the very moment when they looked around and said f**k it [01:38.56]I'ma steal this land [01:39.77]Take it back take it way back [01:40.76]Take it way way back to the first black man [01:42.61] [01:43.41]Long ago before the white man could paint the black man [01:45.47]With a gun in his hand [01:46.87]Take it back take it way back [01:47.90]Take it way way back to the first white man [01:50.37]At the very moment when they looked around and said f**k it [01:52.65]I'ma steal this land [01:53.37] [01:54.09]Take it back take it way back take it way way back to about 1990 [01:56.81] [01:58.42]Shady grove hospital in rockville maryland [01:59.99] [02:00.76]7:36 am where a biracial baby was born [02:05.15]To a black father and a white mother [02:06.67] [02:07.43]Father that wasn't there addicted to crack coc*ine alcohol and various other drugs [02:12.04] [02:13.64]Same as his mom [02:14.38] [02:15.08]Way way back [02:15.67] [02:16.35]So I'm gonna tell you about that I'm gonna tell you about how [02:18.72]All this young boy ever wanted was happiness [02:23.46]All he ever wanted was positivity [02:24.43]All he ever wanted to do was entertain [02:26.80]And this boy went through hell [02:28.05]You gotta understand his mother was racist [02:29.48] [02:30.06]Which is crazy [02:30.46] [02:31.02]Because how in the f**k is you gonna have all these black babies [02:33.99]With black men but you racist [02:35.31]Like b**ch that don't make no sense [02:36.53]But it is what it is [02:37.41] [02:38.58]You know he grew up her callin' him a ni**a [02:41.16] [02:42.03]The kids at school callin' him a cracker [02:43.60] [02:44.16]Identifying as black looking as white [02:46.03]Being told what you can or can't be [02:47.38]This kid went through everything [02:48.21] [02:48.81]He went through [02:49.49]He saw narcotics in the household [02:51.09]He saw violence murderers drug dealers [02:53.68]He was kidnapped there was crazy sh*t that happened to this kid [02:56.99]And he persevered while the whole world said [02:58.83]What they said [02:59.57] [03:00.49]Said you wouldn't be sh*t [03:01.59] [03:03.04]You ain't gon be nothin' nothin' nothin' nothin' [03:08.31] [03:09.27]And I and he he said f**k that I'ma persevere [03:13.68] [03:15.00]And that's why the message is always peace love and positivity [03:16.88] [03:17.47]And see he always saw things from two sides [03:19.74]He always saw things from two sides [03:21.24] [03:22.21]He always knew that the message [03:23.99]Everybody was born equal [03:25.56] [03:26.08]Regardless of race religion color creed and sexual orientation [03:28.48] [03:29.16]He knew that because he saw that [03:30.78]Take it back take it way back [03:32.00]Take it way way back [03:32.85]Because he was stripped and torn down by his black brothers and sisters [03:35.33]That were uneducated and that did not know [03:37.71]And he was stripped [03:38.92]And he was torn down by his white side that did not know [03:41.41] [03:42.19]These people that are ignorant that cannot see the bigger picture [03:44.86]That must fight and kill and murder each other [03:47.89] [03:48.56]But once again all he ever wanted to do [03:51.40] [03:52.30]Was spread a message [03:53.54]Of equality for every man woman and child [03:56.10]Regardless of race religion color creed and sexual orientation [03:59.27]Take it back take it way back [04:00.49]Take it way way back to the first [04:02.00]Now imagine this child growing up [04:04.16] [04:05.63]And seeing the craziest sh*t [04:06.70]Being a part of the craziest sh*t [04:08.36]Running around with the wrong people [04:10.27]Running around with guns and knives and fighting and stealing and [04:14.46]All this because he didn't know he didn't know [04:17.06] [04:18.26]But he knew deep down in his heart that it wasn't right [04:19.99]And he knew that he needed to get away from it [04:21.58] [04:22.37]Now I want you to also imagine that at 17 years old [04:24.96] [04:25.51]This child okay leaves home and gets two jobs to support himself [04:29.46]Two jobs that he works in the morning and the evenings [04:32.51]And then he would then come home to about 8 or 9 hours of sleep [04:36.00]But spend 4 5 6 hours of that working on music persevering [04:40.92] [04:41.63]Grabbing the remote control and looking in the mirror [04:44.25]And pretending to see thousands and thousands and thousands of people [04:47.58]Just chanting his name [04:48.88]Hoping that it would happen [04:50.05]But the but the but the world said no [04:51.68] [04:52.38]Mothaf**ka little mothaf**ka no no no no no no no no [04:55.87]Ya ni**a ya cracka ya white boy ya black mothaf**ka [04:58.28]No no [04:58.88]Take it back take it way back [05:00.00]Take it way way back [05:01.01]And he said f**k that [05:02.01] [05:02.96]He said peace love and positivity [05:04.25] [05:04.92]He said equality for all man [05:06.34]Regardless of race religion color creed and sexual orientation [05:09.02] [05:11.03]Yeah [05:11.27] [05:13.23]Now I also want you to imagine people telling him [05:15.02]That he did not live this life [05:16.23] [05:16.75]You just a white boy you ain't never experienced that sh*t [05:20.16]You from gaithersburg maryland nothing happens there [05:22.20] [05:22.73]Oh no no we no we weren't there we didn't live with you [05:25.44]In your section 8 household we didn't live with the narcotics [05:28.67]And violence in your household [05:30.60] [05:31.94]We just saw it from the outside outside outside outside [05:37.80] [05:39.19]And since you white you gotta have money right [05:40.45] [05:41.65]Take it back take it way back [05:42.66]Take it way way back to the first black man [05:44.69] [05:45.46]And this young man persevered in spite of [05:50.46]What people told him he was wasn't and would [05:53.39]Never be [05:54.11]Take it back take it way back [05:55.14]Take it way way back to the first black [05:56.90]And that man is here today proud [05:59.92] [06:02.35]A lover of all human beings [06:04.76]Regardless of race religion color creed and sexual orientation [06:08.68] [06:09.33]Yeah yeah [06:09.72] [06:11.11]And he's here to say [06:11.97] [06:13.49]Even though we're all born and created equal [06:16.29] [06:16.80]We are not treated equally [06:17.85] [06:18.46]There's extremists on every side [06:19.77] [06:21.14]And you should just do your best to live life [06:24.99]And let other people believe whatever they wanna believe [06:28.39]As long as they're not hurtin' anybody [06:29.52] [06:31.20]You can believe they're going to hell [06:32.16]You can believe it's not right [06:33.40]Believe you're superior fine [06:35.84] [06:37.62]Just stop killing each other