Reverse History from Reverse History by Gennessee

“Reverse History”

Chorus:
Let’s reverse history
Rearrange the facts
How would you feel
With chains on your feet
And a whip on your back
If we reversed history
Imagine That
What if we switched places
And turned white to black

Verse 1:
Imagine 400 years ago
Kings and Queens a royal fam
Where civilization started
And you were trapped
Taken by another man
Packaged in ships
Kidnapped in the Devil’s plan
Shackled and whipped
brought to a foreign land
you became a slave after
Forced to call a man master
They rape your family
Then they tell you
that you don’t matter
Could you walk a mile
in those shoes
To me that’s a mystery
Would you fight to survive
Would you be alive
if they reversed history

Chorus

Verse 2:
Now you living in a nation
That’s full of segregation
You get emancipated
But ain’t nothing changed
They still hate you
You can’t even go places
Gotta use a different entrance
You got a separate water fountain
stuck in a world that’s so racist
Gotta ride the back of the bus
Can’t find someone to trust
They filled with so much hate
That it’s hard for you to love
They say you got freedom
But it sure don’t feel like it
Try to go against the system
they hang you from a tree
Now you start realizing

Chorus

Verse 3:
Now let’s take you to present day
When they say that you ain’t a slave
You would think it got better
But the truth is
Ain’t much really changed
Imagine your child
Walking or driving down the block
Getting stopped
for the color of his skin
Shot
left to die by the hands of a crooked cop
then they don’t even charge em
they let em keep their pension
No consequences
A slap on the wrist
a suspension
I forgot to mention
They coming for you
Even faster
Now maybe you can understand
When I tell you that black lives matter

Chorus

• Hip-Hop
• Hip-Hop/Rap
• Rap
• boom bap
• emcee
• golden era
• California