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Take it Back

from Snapshots by junclassic

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Verse 1



Think of Brooklyn in the 80s

when i’m looking at the babies

wasn’t just the rappers

that was pushing a Mercedes

brothers doing dirt

while the government encouraged it

i ain’t never seen fiends

beam up to the mothership

but had to accept the after effect

of what crack did to families

the savage neglect

some of my brothers came from hell

they raised themselves

seem like jail

the only way that they’d excel

but we so much more

what they loathe us for

get denied loans

when we try to own one store

in a neighborhood thats disappearing

made it good

when your parent wanted no way near it

now they would

for their good kid to inherit

how could

they forget

they don’t deserve the merit

they never earned the credit

never signed up in that

school of hard knocks

better leave the diamonds

and the jewels for the hard rocks



Hook



Back when the Panthers took back the block

as the world burns we turn back the clock

back when the cops were backing out the glock

they still doing that Black kids are getting shot

back when the crack was flooding the black top

as the world burns we turn back the clock

back when the glocks would pop when it was hot

they still doing that Black men are getting got



Verse 2



Tallest in my little league

thought i’d make it really big

before i ran with y'all had to crawl

like a millipede

took forever for me

to get my first hit

young Hispanic pitcher

grillin like i wasn’t worth spit

just knew he would strike me out

final count

cocked the bat back

swung harder than a Tyson bout

hit the ball so hard

almost forgot to run

stopped in shock

knowing my pop

was watching his son

in that moment wasn’t nothing

i couldn't become

nowadays i think about

what i shouldn’t have done

wasting sacred time

ain’t a favorite trait of mine

even Puff had to find

another way to Shine

so when i look back

i see cooked crack

Nicky Barnes Harlem

dope lines for good smack

2 million incarcerated

what would be the odds i made it

ain’t a game of cards we playing

i’m saying we conversating



Hook 2



Back when the Panthers took back the block

as the world burns we turn back the clock

back when the cops were backing out the glock

they still doing that Black kids are getting shot

Back when the crack was flooding the black top

as the world burns we turn back the clock

back when the glocks would pop when it was hot

they still doing that Black men are getting got

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from Snapshots, released March 7, 2023

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junclassic Queens, New York

junclassic is NOT Your average emcee. His voice is striking, something between the weighted baritone of a Bigge Smalls coupled with the streetwise snarl of a Prodigy. He often speaks in daily life narratives, barely escaping the pitfalls of New York City. Refreshingly candid, jun highlights the emotional burdens of Afrocentric modernity, a middle-aged Black man trying to make it all make sense. ... more

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