[Intro]
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!
[Chorus]
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
'Causе through my soul I got a path to the motherland (Yeah)
My skin is so black and I lovе it man
It’s Johnny on the track, keep it running, man
[Verse 1]
Shoutout to your skin if it's looking like mine
Thank the Lord he made me blacker than the fucking nighttime
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 peoples 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
[Chorus]
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 (Yeah)
My skin is so black and I love it man
It’s Johnny on the track keep it running, man
[Outro]
Motherland
Motherland
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!
[Chorus]
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
'Causе through my soul I got a path to the motherland (Yeah)
My skin is so black and I lovе it man
It’s Johnny on the track, keep it running, man
[Verse 1]
Shoutout to your skin if it's looking like mine
Thank the Lord he made me blacker than the fucking nighttime
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 peoples 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
[Chorus]
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 (Yeah)
My skin is so black and I love it man
It’s Johnny on the track keep it running, man
[Outro]
Motherland
Motherland
( Johnny Champagne )
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