Take It Back Songtext
von Jean Grae

Children of a single parent generation

Who found solace inside of the meditation of the drum
Beats penetrating from urban medication
Radio feeds when hungry
Born from the spawned sons and daughters of a broken country
Cause and effect is underestimated highly
When we′re not questioning probably
Cause we guess we made it finally
Yes, another block party to step to

I put it in depth too
To let your nod slow so it gets through
Listen, we stay impressed with skater mags and fashionistas
Get fast, forsaking what just passed
I give a fuck it's deeper
Ask why the black and latino audience never shows
But I know, to them none of our music was ever sold


It′s uninspiring to spit gold and touring in brick cold
And almost crying cause you just missed those
Few ones that grip your heart straight into flick mode
And make you rip harder, this shit's old
I'm feeling all the pain in my father with age
That almost nothing′s changed
And how we always lose control of everything we made
We need to step it up proclaiming our name
I hope you understand they rising easy living off fame
Come on

All the schools and communities (take it back)
How you rock your clothes and your jewelry (take it back)
Rap music and culture (take it back)
We gotta, we gotta, we gotta take it back
How we representing daily (take it back)
Black record execs we gotta (take it back)
Who′s writing your checks? Come on (take it back)
We gotta, we gotta, we gotta take it back

The most influential worldwide culture ever
We must remember history of everything that ceased to be
Folks who swoop beneath the underground and the street
While we pursuing this moving a hundred thou in a week
Watch sleep restless
My chest filled with the sorrow of tomorrow's entrance


Knowing that what I speak is borrowed and neglected
Son checklist
A young black woman telling life as it is deflected
From all the peers and projected to white kids
See, you might not like this but you don′t understand
What it's like to write these images and never be reflected

And I′m feeling rejected
The pain in my brothers who painted in colors
Only to fall the same fate of the game loveless
Explain promoters, strange ranges of fan quotas
We reaching venues and stepping out of the van hopeless

Can't twist this to the man, understand, notice

All the schools and communities (take it back)
How you rock your clothes and your jewelry (take it back)
Rap music and culture (take it back)
We gotta, we gotta, we gotta take it back
How we representing daily (take it back)
Black record execs we gotta (take it back)
Who′s writing your checks? Come on (take it back)
We gotta, we gotta, we gotta take it back