[ti:They School]
[ar:Dead Prez]
[al:Let's Get Free]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:00.000] Why haven't you learned anything?
[00:03.680] Man that school s*it is a joke
[00:07.090] The same people who control the school system control
[00:10.370] The prison system, and the whole social system
[00:14.910] Ever since slavery, naw I'm sayin?
[00:23.230] I went to school with some redneck crackers
[00:25.730] Right around the time 3rd bass dropped the cactus album
[00:28.680] But i was readin malcolm
[00:29.750] I changed my name in '** cleaning parts of my brain
[00:32.420] Like a baby nine
[00:33.740] I took a history class serious
[00:35.720] Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period
[00:38.420] F****n with the teachers had, callin em racist
[00:41.050] I tried to show them crackers some light, they couldn't face it
[00:43.610] I got my diploma from a school called rickers
[00:46.150] Full of, teenage mothers, and drug dealin ******
[00:48.730] In the hallways, the popo was always present
[00:51.090] Searchin through ****** possessions
[00:52.630] Lookin for, **** and weapons, get your lessons
[00:54.790] That's why my moms kept stressin
[00:56.270] I tried to pay attention but they classes wasn't interestin
[00:59.300] They seemed to only glorify the europeans
[01:01.570] Claimin africans were only three-fifths a human being
[01:04.240] They schools can't teach us s*it
[01:06.420] My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get
[01:09.120] All my high school teachers can suck my ****
[01:11.680] Tellin me white man lies straight bulls*it
[01:14.460] They schools aint teachin us, what we need to know to survive
[01:23.810] (say what, say what)
[01:24.920] They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies
[01:34.190] You see dog, you see how quick these motherf****rs be to like
[01:36.760] Be tellin ****** get a diploma so you can get a job
[01:39.630] Knowwhatimsayin but they don't never tell you how the job
[01:41.980] Gonna exploit you every time knowwhatimsayin that's why i be like
[01:44.820] **** they schools!
[01:45.750] School is like a 12 step brainwash camp
[01:47.900] They make you think if you drop out you aint got a chance
[01:50.580] To advance in life, they try to make you pull your pants up
[01:53.120] Students fight the teachers and get took away in handcuffs
[01:58.390] Your peoples understand it but to them, you a failure
[02:00.920] Observation and participation, my favorite teachers
[02:03.490] When they beat us in the head with them books, it don't reach us
[02:06.170] Whether you breakdance or rock suede addidas
[02:08.680] Or be in the bathroom with your clique, smokin reefer
[02:11.320] Then you know they math class aint important 'less you addin up cash
[02:13.920] In multiples, unemployment aint rewardin
[02:16.550] They may as well teach us extortion
[02:18.590] You either get paid or locked up, the pricipal is like a warden
[02:21.560] In a four year sentence, mad ****** never finish
[02:24.070] But that doesn't mean i couldn't be a doctor or a dentist
[02:26.770] They schools can't teach us s*it
[02:28.970] My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get
[02:31.770] All my high school teachers can suck my ****
[02:34.340] Tellin me white man lies straight bulls*it
[02:36.950] They schools can't teach us s*it
[02:38.880] My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get
[02:42.040] All my high school teachers can suck my ****
[02:44.660] Tellin me white man lies straight bulls*it
[02:47.220] They schools aint teachin us, what we need to know to survive
[02:56.410] (say what, say what)
[02:57.880] They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies
[03:40.210] Cuz for real, a mind is a terrible thing to waste
[03:43.670] And all y'all high class ****** with y'all nose up
[03:46.210] Cuz we droppin this s*it on this joint, **** y'all
[03:49.330] We gon speak for ourselves
[03:51.190] Knowhatimsayin? cuz see the schools aint teachin us nothin
[03:54.240] They aint teachin us nothin but how to be slaves and hardworkers
[03:57.670] For white people to build up they s*it
[04:00.010] Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin us
[04:03.130] Knowhatimsayin? and they aint teachin us nothin related to
[04:06.230] Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin?
[04:08.690] Aint teachin us how to get crack out the ghetto
[04:10.390] They aint teachin us how to stop the police from murdering us
[04:13.970] And brutalizing us, they aint teachin us how to get our rent paid
[04:17.540] Knowhatimsayin? they aint teachin our families how to interact
[04:20.350] Better with each other, knowhatimsayin? they just teachin us
[04:23.710] How to build they s*it up, knowhatimsayin? that's why my ******
[04:26.340] Got a problem with this s*it, that's why ****** be droppin out that
[04:29.360] S*it cuz it don't relate, you go to school the f****n police
[04:32.020] Searchin you you walkin in your s*it like this a military compound
[04:35.970] Knowhatimsayin? so school don't even relate to us
[04:38.660] Until we have some s*it where we control the f****n school system
[04:42.610] Where we reflect how we gon solve our own problems
[04:45.050] Them ****** aint gon relate to school, s*it that just how it is
[04:49.340] Knowhatimsayin? and i love education, knowhatimsayin?
[04:52.330] But if education aint elevatin me, then you knowhatimsayin it aint
[04:56.050] Takin me where i need to go on some bulls*it, then **** education
[04:59.400] Knowhatimsayin? at least they s*it, matter of fact my *****
[05:02.460] This whole school system can suck my ****, beeyotch!!