Take It Back [explicit] Lyrics - 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 

"Fuck 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 

"Fuck it, I'ma steal this land" 

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Everybody wanna tell me what I am, what I am not 

"You ain't black, you a mothafuckin' white boy 

Shut ya mouth, do it right boy, a'ight boy? 

Man, why you such a hype boy?" 

"Why you always talk about being black? 

Skin too white, nigga fuck 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 gift to gab fo sho 

But will have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, get the? 

Masta deep down inside of me 

The plantation deep down inside of me 

Everybody fuck like sodomy 

'Cause one or the other what it gotta be 

Tell me why my momma gotta lie to me 

Unity for everyone that lied to me 

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Peace on Earth what I try to be 

I just wanna spread the message of equality 

And yes, I got to gift to gab fo sho 

Will I have to get the gat? No, no 

Yes, I got to gift to gab fo sho 

But will have to get the gat, get the gat, get the, 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 

"Fuck 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 

"Fuck 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 a.m., where a biracial baby was born 

To a black father and a white mother 

Father that wasn't there 

Addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and various other drugs 

Same as his mom 

(Way, way back) 

So I'm gonna tell you about that, right? 

And 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 

'Cause how in the fuck is you gonna have 

All these black babies with black men but you racist 

Like bitch, that don't make no sense, but it is what it is 

You know, he grew up, her callin' him a nigger 

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 

Violence, murderers, drug dealers, he was kidnapped 

There was crazy shit that happened to this kid 

And he persevered while the whole world said 

What they said? 

Said you wouldn't be shit! 

You ain't gon' be nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin' 

Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothing 

And I, and he, he said fuck that, I'ma persevere 

And that's why the message is always peace, love and positivity 

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) 

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 shit 

Being a part of the craziest shit 

Running around with the wrong people 

Running around with guns and knives 

And fighting and stealing and, 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 eight or nine hours of sleep 

But spend four, five, six 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! 

Mothafucka, little mothafucka no-no, no-no, no-no, no-no 

Ya nigga, ya cracka, ya white boy, ya black mothafucka 

No-no! 

(Take it back, take it way back 

Take it way, way back to the first) 

And he said fuck 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 want you to also imagine 

People telling him that he did not live this life 

"You just a white boy 

You ain't never experienced that shit 

You from Gaithersburg, Maryland, nothing happens there 

Oh no, no, we know, we weren't there 

We didn't live with you, we didn't live 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 

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, 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 

You can believe you're superior, fine 

Just stop killing each other