Know your history gotta know your history or they'll take it from you
Know your history gotta know your history or they'll take it from you
Know your history gotta know your history or they'll take it from you
Know your history gotta know your history or they'll take it from you
You know as Black as I am
And as many Black Kings and Queens that I know make up my ancestry
My most immediate connection to my family, my last name
Is that of a British white man, and that's a damn shame
So this is a dedication to Mother Africa
A place I never been but a place I call home (2021 til infinity)
If you can relate
I thank the Lord because I'm Black and I'm southern man
But this go all way back to the motherland
To all my niggas from the trap to the jungle man
Yeah we always learned to laugh through the struggle man
And I don't gotta act like no other man
Cause through my soul I got a path to the motherland
My skin is black and I love it man
It's Johnny on the track keep it running man
Shoutout to your skin if its looking like mine
Thank the Lord he made me blacker than the fucking nighttime
I came from people who had suffered through their lifetime
And through the spirits of my past I got a lifeline
All the things we've overcome I could make a list see
They took my name erased my past and left it as a mystery
Stole the lives of all my people just to make them rich see
So I'm really not just learning but I'm making history
My people making waves after crossing oceans
Came from Western Africa to Hispaniola
St. Kitts St. Thomas then to San Antonio
And Jah know we'll keep on going global
My skin is dark I came from land that's close to the equator
Mi affi represent the Africans out in Jamaica
The soul of Africa is really what my blood is made of
And I'm gon represent my people til I meet my maker
I thank the Lord because I'm Black and I'm southern man
But this go all way back to the motherland
To all my niggas from the trap to the jungle man
Yeah we always learned to laugh through the struggle man
And I don't gotta act like no other man
Cause through my soul I got a path to the motherland
My skin is black and I love it man
It's Johnny on the track keep it running man