Take It Back (feat. ZO1, Basi, SinQ & Freegame Vic)

Take it Back (Black)

Featuring: BASI, Zo1, Sin Q, Freegame Vic

Produced By: Zoran Kollock

Bold: Pictures or video Non bold: Animated Lyrics

Take it back (Intro) - Adrian Henderson

Knowledge of self its knowledge of history. It’s knowledge of culture, your past. It’s everything that gives you the essence of valuing who you are. And Your Blackness

Chorus:

If you black

You should know Where you goin where you been where you at

They gone say a lot of things but it ain’t all facts

We all start from somewhere so we gotta take it back

Basi Verse:

Cause I could tell on you bout Nat

He heard god talking back

Told them you can’t let them keep you where you at

So he had to fight back

Gave it to him straight like that

Just so I could tell you in a rap

And what about Maya

She had to live through the fire

She felt the pain of desire

caged birds gone sing let yo wings take you higher

Still I rise i don’t believe in the liars

In my eyes I got the means to inspire

Life doesn’t frighten me cause I know I’m the flyest

Son of Osiris praise to the most highest

I mean we could take it back to before the colonizers

 

Mansa Musa took a caravan across the desert sands just so he could see the world pray to god blow some e bands

The richest of all time a black man with a plan

If you read between the lines you would really understand

Zo1 Verse:

I could tell you bout huey

I could tell you bout seale

I could tell that up in oakland what they holdin ain't concealed

I could tell you bout that militant feelin’ just what they feel

They gone try to lead you wrong im givin you whats the real

Let me tell you bout me

O a k l a n to the D

Let me tell you bout the roads that was paved in these streets

I could tell you that the price that was paid wasnt cheap

I could tell you what it cost to be someone like me

Thats fact

Blackity blackity black black

from the bay this that slap that slappity slap slap

Think of black wallstreet when you thinkin bout cash stacks

Cause our currency that black love how they gon tax that?

If you black

Aint gotta hoop ain’t gotta rap

Whatever you wanna do you can do it thats facts

 long as yo intentions good neighborhoods on the map

Cuz they gon show a lil cheese just don’t fall in to the traps

Namsayin if u

Sin Q Verse:

Now I could tell you bout Ida

Think you heard of her? well you mighta

Exposed the lynch mobs as a writer

See Now we got cell phone video she just had a pen

And she spoke truth til the very end

They won’t tell you bout Carlotta

My cousin on the side of my poppa

On her way to school they tried to stop her

A young black girl in a sea of white hate

Would you still integrate if you knew that they would jus spit in ya face

Went from lil rock 9 to jenna six

Them people hate black but they luh da benefits

And Pops told me this before I could even lace my kicks

So it’s been sankofa ever since

Why he name me Sin Q

After Sengbe Pieh

Said we gettin off this ship

We are not no free slaves

Thas why I went to Ghana and seen Kwame in his grave

And we should believe the same

I know we got it what it takes

if you black, take it back!

Vic:

Take it back

No, I can’t make you black

That knowledge of self

A really save you that's a fact

Channelin my ancestors know im too attached to my purpose and the trauma you know it was filled with that

No i can't fulfill your acts

In service and pursuit of yourself

And i cant witness what the future really do to themselves

Hop on the socials, see a mogul and assume that its wealth

Its really lost, what they consumin only hurtin they health

The strong minded

Free in every way no confinement

A way of life to show the path but never had designed it

The work we put in organic

Never need consignment

Putin balance in the world so go watch the alignment

Not finna fight especially cause they never provided

Our history identity to change our whole mindset

Kingmakers on a mission if you gon need the reminder

Light to the world we bring the truth and we gon blind ya