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