Dead Prez - They Schools lyrics
Why haven't you learned anything? <br><br>Man that school shit is a joke<br>The same people who control the school system control<br>The prison system, and the whole social system<br>Ever since slavery, nawsayin? <br><br>[verse 1]<br>I went to school with some redneck crackers<br>Right around the time 3rd bass dropped the cactus album<br>But I was readin malcolm<br>I changed my name in '89 cleaning parts of my brain<br>Like a baby nine<br>I took a history class serious<br>Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period<br>Fuckin with the teachers had, callin em racist<br>I tried to show them crackers some light, they couldn't face it<br>I got my diploma from a school called rickers<br>Full of, teenage mothers, and drug dealin niggas<br>In the hallways, the popo was always present<br>Searchin through niggas possessions<br>Lookin for, dope and weapons, get your lessons<br>That's why my moms kept stressin<br>I tried to pay attention but they classes wasn't interestin<br>They seemed to only glorify the europeans<br>Claimin africans were only three-fifths a human being<br><br>Hook:<br>They schools can't teach us shit<br>My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get<br>All my high school teachers can suck my dick<br>Tellin me white man lies straight bullshit (echoes)<br>They schools ain't teachin us, what we need to know to survive<br>(say what, say what)<br>They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies<br><br>You see dog, you see how quick these motherfuckers be to like<br>Be tellin niggas get a diploma so you can get a job<br>Knowwhatimsayin but they don't never tell you how the job<br>Gonna exploit you every time knowwhatimsayin that's why I be like<br>Fuck they schools!<br><br>[verse 2]<br>School is like a 12 step brainwash camp<br>They make you think if you drop out you ain't got a chance<br>To advance in life, they try to make you pull your pants up<br>Students fight the teachers and get took away in handcuffs<br>And if that wasn't enough, then they expel y'all<br>Your peoples understand it but to them, you a failure<br>Observation and participation, my favorite teachers<br>When they beat us in the head with them books, it don't reach us<br>Whether you breakdance or rock suede addidas<br>Or be in the bathroom with your clique, smokin reefer<br>Then you know they math class ain't important 'less you addin up cash<br>In multiples, unemployment ain't rewardin<br>They may as well teach us extortion<br>You either get paid or locked up, the pricipal is like a warden<br>In a four year sentence, mad niggas never finish<br>But that doesn't mean I couldn't be a doctor or a dentist<br><br>Hook(first part of hook twice)<br><br>Cuz for real, a mind is a terrible thing to waste<br>And all y'all high class niggas with y'all nose up<br>Cuz we droppin this shit on this joint, fuck y'all<br>We gon speak for ourselves<br>Knowhatimsayin? cuz see the schools ain't teachin us nothin<br>They ain't teachin us nothin but how to be slaves and hardworkers<br>For white people to build up they shit<br>Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin us<br>Knowhatimsayin? and they ain't teachin us nothin related to<br>Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin? <br>Aint teachin us how to get crack out the ghetto<br>They ain't teachin us how to stop the police from murdering us<br>And brutalizing us, they ain't teachin us how to get our rent paid<br>Knowhatimsayin? they ain't teachin our families how to interact<br>Better with each other, knowhatimsayin? they just teachin us<br>How to build they shit up, knowhatimsayin? that's why my niggas<br>Got a problem with this shit, that's why niggas be droppin out that<br>Shit cuz it don't relate, you go to school the fuckin police<br>Searchin you you walkin in your shit like this a military compound<br>Knowhatimsayin? so school don't even relate to us<br>Until we have some shit where we control the fuckin school system<br>Where we reflect how we gon solve our own problems<br>Them niggas ain't gon relate to school, shit that just how it is<br>Knowhatimsayin? and I love education, knowhatimsayin? <br>But if education ain't elevatin me, then you knowhatimsayin it aint<br>Takin me where I need to go on some bullshit, then fuck education<br>Knowhatimsayin? at least they shit, matter of fact my nigga<br>This whole school system can suck my dick, beeyotch!!
