[00:00.00]Take it back, take it way back
[00:01.30]Take it way way back to the first black man
[00:03.44]Long ago before the white man could
[00:05.25]Paint the black man with a gun in his hand
[00:07.00]Take it back, take it way back
[00:08.39]Take it way way back to the first white man
[00:10.46]At the very moment when they looked around
[00:12.47]And said **** it I'ma steal this land
[00:14.00]Take it back, take it way back
[00:15.51]Take it way way back to the first black man
[00:17.74]Long ago before the white man could
[00:19.37]Paint the black man with a gun in his hand
[00:21.09]Take it back, take it way back
[00:22.51]Take it way way back to the first white man
[00:24.84]At the very moment when they looked around
[00:26.68]And said **** it I'ma steal this land
[00:28.31]Everybody wanna tell me what I am
[00:29.63]What I am not
[00:30.30]You ain't black, you a *********** white boy
[00:32.30]Shut ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight boy
[00:34.10]Man why you such a hype boy
[00:35.51]Why you always talk about being black
[00:37.27]Skin too white, ***** **** that
[00:39.05]Everything you talk about, cut that
[00:42.20]That door you trying
[00:43.10]To open you could shut that
[00:44.36]Grip the gat yeah
[00:45.15]That's how I'ma buck back
[00:46.29]Tell me what I am and what I know now
[00:47.88]All this prejudice has got to go
[00:49.49]Life is moving fast it need to slow down
[00:51.43]Come and see me when I am in yo town
[00:53.02]Practice what we preach before it go down
[00:54.91]Practice what we preach before it go
[00:56.52]Yes I got the gift to gab fo sho
[00:58.66]Will I have to get the gat, no no
[01:00.30]Yes I got to get the gat fo sho
[01:02.01]But will have to get the gat
[01:03.09]Get the gat, get the gat
[01:04.12]Masta deep down inside of me
[01:05.37]The plantation deep down inside of me
[01:07.12]Everybody **** like sodomy
[01:08.72]Cause one or the other what it gotta be
[01:10.73]Tell me why my momma gotta lie to me
[01:12.52]Unity for everyone that lied to me
[01:14.34]Peace on earth what I try to be
[01:16.09]I just wanna spread the message of equality
[01:17.84]Yes I got to get the gat fo sho
[01:19.79]Will I have to get the gat, no no
[01:21.53]Yes I got to get the gat fo sho
[01:23.33]But will have to get the gat
[01:24.41]Get the gat, get the gat
[01:25.32]Take it back, take it way back
[01:26.60]Take it way way back to the first black man
[01:28.82]Long ago before the white man could
[01:30.46]Paint the black man with a gun in his hand
[01:32.33]Take it back, take it way back
[01:33.73]Take it way way back to the first white man
[01:35.79]At the very moment when they looked around
[01:37.77]And said **** it I'ma steal this land
[01:39.34]Take it back, take it way back
[01:40.82]Take it way way back to the first black man
[01:42.92]Long ago before the white man could
[01:44.69]Paint the black man with a gun in his hand
[01:46.58]Take it back, take it way back
[01:47.98]Take it way way back to the first white man
[01:50.16]At the very moment when they looked around
[01:52.04]And said **** it I'ma steal this land
[01:53.62]Take it back, take it way back
[01:55.03]Take it way way back to about 1990
[01:57.96]Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, Maryland
[02:00.46]7:36am. Where a biracial baby was born
[02:04.47]To a black father and a white mother
[02:06.64]Father that wasn't there
[02:08.20]Addicted to crack *******
[02:10.11]Alcohol, and various other drugs
[02:12.22]Same as his mom
[02:14.72]Way, way back
[02:15.83]So I'm gonna tell you about that, right
[02:17.30]I'm gonna tell you about how
[02:18.41]All this young boy ever wanted was Happiness
[02:23.20]All he ever wanted was positivity
[02:24.50]All he ever wanted to do was entertain
[02:26.42]And this boy went through hell
[02:27.58]You gotta understand, his mother was racist
[02:29.58]Which is crazy
[02:30.74]Cause how in the **** is
[02:32.23]You gonna have all these black babies
[02:34.10]With black men, but you racist
[02:35.33]Like *****, that don't make sense
[02:36.47]But it is what it is
[02:37.69]You know, he grew up
[02:39.99]Her callin him a *****
[02:41.80]The kids at school callin him a cracker
[02:43.79]Identifying as black, looking as white
[02:45.86]Being told what you can or can't be
[02:47.27]This kid went through everything
[02:48.58]He went through
[02:49.32]He saw narcotics in the household
[02:51.00]Violence, murderers, drug dealers
[02:53.21]He was kidnapped, there was crazy ****
[02:55.45]That happened to this kid
[02:56.48]And he persevered while the whole world said
[02:58.56]What they said
[02:59.48]Said you wouldn't be ****!
[03:02.82]You ain't gon be
[03:03.59]Nothin, nothin, nothin, nothin
[03:05.45]Nothin, nothin, nothin, nothin
[03:07.18]Nothin, nothin, nothin
[03:09.10]And I, and he, he said **** that
[03:12.59]I'ma persevere
[03:14.52]And that's why the message is
[03:15.68]Always peace, love and positivity
[03:17.25]See, he always saw things from two sides
[03:19.41]He always saw things from two sides
[03:21.80]He always knew that the message
[03:23.58]Everybody, was born equal
[03:25.87]Regardless of race, religion
[03:27.04]Color, creed, and ***ual orientation
[03:28.82]He knew that because he saw that
[03:30.65]Take it back, take it way back
[03:31.95]Take it way way
[03:32.44]Because he was stripped
[03:33.28]And torn down by
[03:34.13]His black brothers and sisters
[03:35.27]That were uneducated and that did not know
[03:37.68]And he was stripped
[03:38.73]And he was torn down by
[03:39.94]His white side that did not know
[03:41.68]These people that are ignorant
[03:43.09]That cannot see the bigger picture
[03:44.46]That must fight, and kill
[03:46.29]And murder each other
[03:47.93]But once again, all he ever wanted to do
[03:51.33]Was spread a message
[03:53.07]Of equality
[03:54.08]For every man, woman, and child
[03:56.00]Regardless of race, religion
[03:57.33]Color, creed, and ***ual orientation
[03:59.38]Take it back, take it way back
[04:00.33]Take it way way back to the first
[04:01.71]Now imagine this child growing up
[04:05.12]And seeing the craziest ****
[04:06.60]Being a part of the craziest ****
[04:08.00]Running around with the wrong people
[04:10.00]Running around with guns
[04:11.05]And knives and fighting and stealing and
[04:14.07]And all this, because he didn't know
[04:15.73]He didn't know!
[04:17.27]But he knew deep down in his heart
[04:19.25]That it wasn't right
[04:19.87]And he knew that
[04:20.42]He needed to get away from it
[04:21.64]Now I want you to also imagine
[04:23.52]That at 17 years old
[04:24.96]This child, okay, leaves home
[04:27.63]And gets two jobs to support himself
[04:29.33]Two jobs that he works
[04:30.42]In the morning and the evenings
[04:32.26]And then he would
[04:32.85]Then come home to about
[04:34.35]8 or 9 hours of sleep
[04:35.94]But spend 4, 5, 6 hours of
[04:38.50]That working on music, persevering
[04:41.09]Grabbing the remote control
[04:42.61]And looking in the mirror
[04:44.05]And pretending to see thousands
[04:45.63]And thousands and thousands of people
[04:47.49]Just chanting his name
[04:48.54]Hoping that it would happen
[04:49.87]But the, but the
[04:50.78]But the world said No!
[04:52.10]**********
[04:52.51]Little ********** no no, no no, no no, no no
[04:55.76]Ya *****, ya cracka
[04:56.77]Ya white boy, ya black **********
[04:58.32]No no!
[04:58.89]Take it back, take it way back
[04:59.88]Take it way way back to the first
[05:01.14]And he said **** that
[05:01.93]He said peace, love, and positivity
[05:04.63]He said equality for all man
[05:06.20]Regardless of race, religion
[05:07.57]Color, creed, and ***ual orientation
[05:10.03]Yeah
[05:12.47]Now I want you to also imagine people
[05:14.51]Telling him that he did not live this life
[05:16.31]You just a white boy
[05:17.82]You ain't never experienced that ****
[05:19.80]You from Gaithersburg, Maryland
[05:21.42]Nothing happens there
[05:22.41]Oh no, no, we no, we weren't there
[05:24.35]We didn't live with you
[05:25.12]We didn't live
[05:25.57]In your Section 8 household
[05:27.20]We didn't live with the narcotics
[05:28.64]And violence in your household
[05:31.46]We just saw it from the outside
[05:32.91]Outside, outside, outside
[05:35.05]Outside, outside, outside
[05:36.96]Outside
[05:38.84]And since you white
[05:39.23]You gotta have money, right
[05:41.20]Take it back, take it way back
[05:42.55]Take it way way back to the first black man
[05:45.22]And this young man persevered in spite
[05:49.79]Of what people told him he was
[05:51.81]Wasn't, would
[05:53.23]And would never be
[05:54.04]Take it back, take it way back
[05:55.04]Take it way way back to the first black
[05:56.71]And that man is here today, proud
[06:01.44]A lover of all human beings
[06:04.46]Regardless of race, religion
[06:06.86]Color, creed, and ***ual orientation
[06:08.77]Yeah, yeah
[06:10.57]And he's here to say
[06:12.73]Even though we're all born and created equal
[06:16.60]We are not treated equally
[06:17.79]There's extremists on every side
[06:20.06]And you should just do your best to live life
[06:24.96]And let other people believe
[06:27.02]Whatever they wanna believe
[06:27.99]As long as they're not hurtin anybody
[06:30.77]You can believe they're going to hell
[06:32.19]You can believe it's not right
[06:33.54]You can believe you're superior, fine
[06:37.00]Just stop killing each other