You don't know who you are
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Look back into your past, brother
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Look back into your past, sister
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Look back into your past, sister
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Look back into your past, brother
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[Afrika]
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My forefather was a king
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He wore fat gold chains and fat ruby rings
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Nobody believes this to be true
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Maybe it's because my eyes ain't blue
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You ain't gonna find it in your history book
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Come here, young blood, and take a look
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Dig down deep inside this hard cover
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Don't you know you was bought, brother
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All you read about is slavery
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Never about the black man's bravery
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You look at the pictures and all they show is
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Afrikan people with bones in their noses
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That ain't true, that's a lie
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You didn't get that from my lemon pie
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[Mike G]
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Yeah, I cut class, I got a D
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Cause History meant nothing to me
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Except a definite nap
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That's why I always sat in the back
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I'd talk to girls or write a rhyme
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Cause I didn't know (all times are black man's times)
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When I was young my mama told me stories
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Of black peoples' fight to bring us glory
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I used to think these were stories to put me to sleep
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But now I know mama's talk wasn't cheap
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I know Afrika's for Afrikans
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And history's the blood of every woman and man
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"Now I begin another search, the incredibly involved
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The incredibly difficult and incredibly frustrating search
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Trying to pull together the history of a people"
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[Afrika]
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Page one, page two, page three
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And still no signs of me
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Yeah, so I looked into the table of contents
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They wrote a little thing about us in the projects
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Only history we make is if we kill somebody
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Rape somebody, but other than that we're nobody
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Speaking like a Brother living in the Jungle
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I know I was here first but I remain humble
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[Mike G]
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Now it's time to rekindle the fire
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A tribe of young brothers with the eye of the tiger
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[Afrika]
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Acknowledge your own, we have a home
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Put on this earth to live and roam
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[Mike G]
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Christopher chose to explore
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DISCOVERED AMERICA! Yeah, sure
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[Afrika]
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He thought the planet was square
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Travelled many places, we already had been there
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We left tracks, backtrack back
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First civilisation, you know where that was found at
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Looking for the true black days of glory
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That's history, that's his story
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[Vinia Mojica 4x]
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The red's for the blood and the black's for the man
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The green is the colour that stands for the land
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Acknowledge Your Own History
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Jungle Brothers |