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  • 5/24/2025
Trey Knowles’ “Birth Defects” explores how the enemy disrupts your path, striking at your foundation and placing obstacles meant to drain the life out of you. The song draws a powerful metaphor, showing that when people are abused, mistreated, or pushed out of their natural state of being, it causes deep emotional and psychological damage—likened to taking a wild animal from its natural habitat and forcing it into an unfamiliar, hostile environment.

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00:00you were young and you don't understand nothing you want to know what happened birth defects
00:05birth defects you want to know what happened you were young and you don't understand nothing
00:11you were young and you don't understand nothing privilege what if i take an animal off his cage
00:17out of this environment back beating mistreated i don't even understand english they told me it
00:22was a black heaven and it was a watermelon boy i tell you what i didn't even know i was free
00:26it was juneteenth i was picking cotton on the cotton field master told me being a good nigga
00:31i've been a good nigga boss he struck my heel from the beginning and then he gave me his religion i
00:37don't understand he can't even follow jesus command i truly believe he got drafted in or this is the
00:42man of sin third grade education i'm only eight i don't even know how to survive in this state
00:47mama and daddy's fat with diabetes high blood pressure tell me how your life measured i was
00:52born in this not prepared for this kkk hang me on the cross they kicked me they lynched me they spit
00:59on me they came and got me in the morning laughing at me and told me where's your mama and daddy you
01:03black orphan now for the introduction the cops was a drug smuggler killing my community making me a
01:10crack baby let me put you out in the street and serve you with hiv you black monkey that's what they
01:14told me angry then comes a second member right to carry henry p newton was a black panther heavy white
01:20president say they are christian and put their hands on the bible and destroy the earth
01:23you were youngin you don't understand nothing you want to know what happened birth defects
01:29birth defects you want to know what happened you were youngin you don't understand nothing
01:35you were youngin you don't understand nothing you want to know what happened birth defects
01:41birth defects you want to know what happened you were youngin you don't understand nothing
01:47You were young and you don't understand nothing
01:51You want to know what happened?
01:53Birth defects
01:53Birth defects
01:56You want to know what happened?
01:58You were young and you don't understand nothing
02:17You want to know what happened?

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