Back Down ft. Cris Acosta Lyrics

Yo what’s up

Yo what’s up

Hey

A yo

You claim that you bang, its insane

A white supremacists campaign

When we’re slain, its mundane

Rappers killed in public domains

And we just tweet thangs

Hashtag Gone too soon

On to the next thing

Death has become an art

Rapping with hand grenades

Osama Bin Laden sure ain’t got nada on drama

Secretly ordered by the CIA

Black ops with the DEA

Black cops with these white cops

On those black blocks and they must obey

Reconnaissance on citizens

They’re melanated they’re innocent

Lets elevate our militance

And celebrate our consciousness Yeah

Hey

Alright I like a merry go round but

I ain’t merry I’m down

Cuz I see whole sale violence

Packaged up and polished

Astonishing who’s admonished

When poverty is our promise

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They feed our souls with lust and hoes

We won’t even discuss these woes

We chose to candy coat I won’t

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Ya can’t have it both ways

Drug dealer lavish plus saved

Classy and savage is what they had did

To us when we were slaves

No way

Consciousness protects me

You cant say you’re WOKE when you don’t know the recipe

Get down

Yeah Back down baby

Can't talk about Jews or Gays as these people you be slaying

Back down

Why ain’t the mainstream afraid of you

That says it all they play to you

You play to them

You’re both involved

So all Back down

Don’t be no clowns

We’re ancient we’re profound original be proud

Hey

Back down

Things should not be the same until the freedom bell rangs

Thugs are not revolutionaries

There’s a difference they’re not the same

You can quote Malcolm X or King

But you’re still not an excellent king

Until you execute excellent things

In your new life to your old life

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I’m problem solving, I’m evolving

My old self ain’t coming around

But now days I’m coming around to spend time with my child

Pow

Here’s my check I’m out

I regret being foul

You’re respect for me will come around

But until then I

Back down

You critics get a smack down

Who are you to tell me, Speech

What’s not or is a hot track now

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When I was young and there was elders around I would have sat down

Now you pasty cats got a playlist, thinking you running rap now

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We did shows with Tribe and Wu Tang, P.E. and Fugues and Gang Starr

We go LIVE when we sang

30 years or more

Worldwide tours

You ain’t thought before

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Uh, I thought of that before

I thought of that before but you don’t honor it no more

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Respect for the past is something you deeply lack now

And I ain’t bitter either, I’ve had mad success

This ain’t lashing out

I’m giving wisdom cuz the system will stop giving rations out

And you will be poor like you were before taking that faster route

The disaster route

Who’s the masters now

We’re the masters now

Honor the crown or

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