This was the first song that I wrote for the album, this was like two years ago, which
is crazy to say that.
I just knew it was something that I wanted to say.
I just felt compelled, and I didn't even really still know about the whole concept of the
album yet, like I had this idea in my mind, but this is just something I really needed to say
In this specific song I'm letting it be known that I have experienced racism from both ends
and because of that it sucks and it hurts, but I am here to say that we're all people
and we all are treated fucked up.
I'm like, you know, I wanna be there to say something for people in the biracial community
as well, that's it.
To me, in my mind, the opening line, I already knew this was going to be the first song that
people were going to hear from my next album.
so I knew that like what a fucking gangster ass like...the first thing you hear from me
since my last album is, “Okay I was gone for a minute but I’m back now/Sit the fuck
back down” That’s like real, like I’m just a very positive, peaceful dude and I
like my music to speak for me.
So it’s like, “Yeah muthafuckers.
Everybody want to act like this or that.
I ain’t on some fucking, this ain’t no fashion show for me.
This ain't about jewelry.
This ain’t about none of that shit.”
And that’s fine.
That’s a lifestyle.
I respect it.
That’s dope.
I’m here for the raps, muthafucker.
I’m here to change lives.
I’m here for the message.
And if you ain’t with well fuck you, then.
Yeah that’s just me running around with guns and knives and doing dumb ass shit.
Cause people look at me and they’re like, “Oh you fucking white boy.
Or you this.
You never experience this or that.”
I talk about this on other records too but being from Gaithersburg, Maryland and this
and that but man, I was section 8 household.
I had killers and murderers, drug dealers in my fucking home.
All this shit.
I’ve held guns.
Walked around with guns.
Ran around with guns.
Shot off guns and thank god, I’ve never taken anybody’s life.
I’m almost like just talking to my younger self.
I’m like run away from this life motherfucker before you end up dead or shot or in jail.
So, “Everything you talk abbbbout I know I can live without it,” it was just like
oh shit, the way you’re hit with my word bout and I go into pro tools --cause I engineer
a lot of my shit myself--so I go in, my boy Bobby mixes everything, but I go in and I
look at that line and there is also a drum there so I take my bout and I go up and I
look at the entire beat and I copy over the beat and I duplicate it four times, “Everything
you talk bout bout bout bout,” and then right after there is, “I know I can live
without it.”
So it’s just something that seems effortless and kind of hits you and knocks you on your ass
“Hell of a long way from equal is how they treat us/Body of a builder with the mind of
a fetus,” to me, it’s just about the nation, our government, how we’re made to feel as people.
So they’re like these big strong but their minds are so small, they’re only focused
on money.
And not everybody.
Politics ain’t all bad.
There is really people there that want to help and change and make shit different but
for the fucking most part, it’s all about money.
So “body of the builder with the mind of a fetus,” So and so got killed.
So and so got shot.
So and so got this.
And that's the vision that they’re feeding us.
They’re keeping us in fear and it sucks.
The hook is just about unity.
I think we live in the era where some ignorant muthafucker can just be like, “What is this
all lives matter shit?”
Fuck you mean dog?
Chill out with it.
This is beautiful and I'm just here to say that.
Everybody has experiences and everybody has highs and lows and this and that.
And I’m here to shed light on what needs to be said and I’ll pick up the flag and
wave it of anybody who is in despair or in need of help or voice, that’s real shit.
Like straight up, 100 million and trillion percent.
Yeah, “If it was 1717, black daddy white momma wouldn’t change a thing,” it’s
like yo, I’ll still get it.
Even going in, “Light skin mothafucka certified as a house nigga,” yeah, they want to keep
me inside cause I’m light skinned boy or I’m this.
Then or now...muthafuckers were perscuted for being black and white.
It wasn’t acceptable.
One side or the other side or both sides.
Didn't know where to fit in.
When to fit in.
How to fit in.
And it’s like, that’s how I feel today.
I don’t give a fuck where I am or who I’m around, I let everybody know that I’m proud
to be me.
I’m proud to be black.
I’m proud to be this.
Whatever the case, I’ve had white people treat me like shit and be like, “Fuck you, you nigger."
You this and you that.”
I’ve heard these things from people.
And I’ve could have just sat on in with masta and be like, “Oh yeah, I’m white.
It's all good.
Don’t worry.”
Fuck that.
Are you kidding me?
No.
It’s crazy to think about it.
People saying whatever they want to say racially about me or this or that but at the end of
the day, I have to look in the mirror and see the man that I do and know, that in my
bloodline and in my lineage was the slave and the master.
And that’s what made me.
That’s what created me.
And it’s kind of fucked up to think about that but I’m not ashamed of who I am.
But one thing I want to say and I really want to shed light on this.
Is when I say, “But he was born with the white privilege!
/Man what the fuck is that?”
I obviously know what white privilege is.
I’m not a fucking idiot.
I don't’ know what it’s like to walk down the street as a dark skinned black men.
Without question, I do not know or understand what that is and I’m not saying that the
things I’ve gone through are any less or any more important than that.
What I’m saying is, I’m just telling my story and letting be known that like, people
can be like, “You get ahead.”
Or, “You get this and you get that.”
Like I’m a biracial person who looks white in a black man’s rap game.
Who’s not accepted by many parts of the culture because of how I look.
I don't’ know, maybe life would have been easier for me if I became a fucking accountant
or something but I didn’t do that and I faced diversity and I said fuck that, I’m
going to go do this cause I’m proud of that.
It's not really about my family.
I didn’t know.
I didn’t know there was an issue.
Cause there wasn’t an issue.
There was an issue with my mother and things like that but my brothers and sisters treated
me just like I was their brother.
Somebody that they loved and cared about.
There wasn’t an issue there.
It wasn’t until I went out into the world and they were like, “Oh you’re this or that."
But even to really paint this picture cause I want it to be understood.
When I experience racism from white folk or black folk, it’s not white folk or black
folk, it’s just a sect of that black community or white community that themselves are fucking racist.
Black people are fucking awesome.
White people are awesome.
These are just races and those negative people do not represent an entire race.
Just like a suicide bomber does not represent the Muslim community.
That's bullshit.
So I just wanted to be stated that when I say, “Not accepted by the black or the white,”
I mean that figuratively on a much lower scale than what it really can sometimes feel like
because of the media or being in hip-hop and the way I do.
That’s it.