Jean Grae - Take it Back lyrics

[Verse One] Children of a single parent generation Who found solace inside the meditation of the drum Beats penetratin' from Urban mediation radio feeds when hungry Born from despondent sons and daughters of a broken country Cause and effect is underestimated, highly But when I question it prolly cause yes 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, this ain't fresh for skatin' mag to fashionistas Get bashed for sayin' what just pa**ed, I give a f**, it's deeper Ask why the black and latino audience never shows But I know So that none of our music was ever sold It's uninspirin' to spit gold when tourin' in brick cold And almost cryin' cause you miss those Few ones that grip your heart straight into flip mode And make you rip hard if the sh**'s old I'm feelin' all the pain in my father with age That almost nothings changed And how we always lose control of everything we made We need to step it up, reclaimin' our name I hope you understand it wasn't easy livin' off fame C'mon [Hook] All the schools and communities Take it back How you're rockin' clothes and your j**elry Take it back Rap music and culture Take it back We gotta, we gotta we gotta Take it back How we're represented daily Take it back Black record execs We gotta take it back C'mon, who's writin' your checks? C'mon take it back We gotta, we gotta, we gotta Take it back [Verse Two] The most influential worldwide culture ever We must remember history or everything will ease to be Vultures swoop beneath the underground in the street While we pursuin', just movin' a hundred thou in a week Why I sleep restless My chest fill with the sorrow of tomorrows entrance Knowin' that what I speak is borrowed and neglected Son check this A young black woman tellin' life as it is, deflected From all the peers who projected to white kids, see You might not like this but you don't understand What it's like to write the images and never be reflected And I'm feelin' rejected The pain of my brothers who painted in colors Only to fall the same fate in the game, loveless Explain promoters Strange range of the fan quotas We reachin' venues and steppin' out of the van hopeless You can't push us to the man, understand, know this [Hook] All the schools and communities Take it back How you're rockin' clothes and your j**elry Take it back Rap music and culture Take it back We gotta, we gotta we gotta Take it back How we're represented daily Take it back Black record execs We gotta take it back C'mon, who's writin' your checks? C'mon take it back We gotta, we gotta, we gotta Take it back