If I could go back in time,
I'd rewrite some of my history line for line
I would've never done my first crime,
held my first nine
But still would've smoked my first time
If I could go back in time
James
Brown wouldn't have got locked up
Rodney
King wouldn't have got fucked up
Tupac and
Big wouldn't have got shot up
EPMD would've never
broke up
That's word up
If I could go back in time
I'd bring
Bob and
Malcolm back
Michael
Jackson still be black
Hitler would've lost his life at birth
And there'll be no such
thing as crack
And that's a fact
If I could go back in time
There'll be no
Ku
Klux
Klan
We wouldn't have dropped
that bomb on
Japan
Elvis never would've been the man
And this would still be
the native's land
Understand, if I can go back in time
I rewrite some of my history
Line for line
Would've never done my first crime
Helped my first nine,
but still would've wrote my first rhyme
Somewhere in time
I no longer knew what was real,
what was magic
Somewhere in time
You're a part of a time travel
experiment
If I could go back in time,
I'd rewrite some of my history line for line
I would've never done my first crime,
held my first nine
But still would've smoked my first dime
If I could go back in time,
Dr.
King would've
never got shot
Mandela would've never got knocked
The natives never would've
caught smallpox
And then
Mattel would never be in the box
Now that's hot, if I could go back
in time I'd change the game
Terrorists went and jacked them planes
Them towers went and went up in flames
And the people would know
God's original name
If I could go back in time just a bit
Gavin
Cato would've never got hit
Jack
Johnson's vehicle wouldn't flip
And
Yousef
Hawkins wouldn't got his shit split
On some old racist bullshit
If I could go back in time I'd
rewrite some of my history
Line for line, would've never
done my first crime
Helped my first nine, but still would've wrote my
first rhyme
If I could go back in time,
I'd rewrite some of my history line for line
I would've never done my first crime,
helped my first nine
But still would've smoked my first dime
If I could go back in time,
I'd flip the script
There'd be no
Bloods and
Crips
Columbus would've died in that ship
Cortez wouldn't have even
bothered to make the trip
If I could go back in time,
I'd put it down
Scotla
Rock would still be around
Steven
Biko wouldn't be in the ground
Patrice
Lamar wouldn't be in the ground
Haile
Selassie would be rockin' his crown
If I could go back in time, just a year
Groove would still be makin' hits for
Premiere
Me and
Sugar and
Dapper be right there
The whole unit would be intact,
all my dead homies would be here
If I could go back in time,
I'd rewrite some of my history
Line for line, I woulda never
done my first crime
Helped my first nine,
but still woulda wrote my first rhyme
Ay yo, how the fuck you gon' know where you goin'
if you don't know where you came from?
Jeru The Damaja 
