They School

Why haven't you learned anything?

Man that school shit is a joke

The same people who control the school system control

The prison system, and the whole social system

Ever since slavery, know what I'm sayin'?

I went to school with some redneck crackers

Right around the time 3rd bass dropped the cactus album

But I was readin' Malcolm

I changed my name in '89 cleaning parts of my brain

Like a baby nine

I took a history class serious

Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period

Fuckin' with the teachers head, callin' 'em racist

I tried to show them crackers some light, they couldn't face it

I got my diploma from a school called Rickers

Full of, teenage mothers, and drug dealin' ****

In the hallways, the popo was always present

Searchin' through **** possessions

Lookin' for, dope and weapons, get your lessons

That's why my moms kept stressin'

I tried to pay attention, but they classes wasn't interestin'

They seemed to only glorify the Europeans

Claimin' Africans were only three fifth's a human being

They schools can't teach us shit

My people need freedom, we tryin' to get all we can get

All my high school teachers can suck my dick

Tellin' me white man lies, straight bullshit

They schools ain't teachin' us, what we need to know to survive (Say what, say what)

They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies

You see dawg, you see how quick these motherfuckers be to like

Be tellin' ****, get a diploma so you can get a job

Know what I'm sayin' but they don't never tell you how the job

Gonna exploit you every time, know what I'm sayin', that's why I be like

Fuck they schools

School is like a 12 step brainwash camp

They make you think if you drop out, you ain't got a chance

To advance in life, they try to make you pull your pants up

Students fight the teachers and get took away in handcuffs

And if that wasn't enough, then they expel y'all

Your peoples understand it, but to them, you a failure

Observation and participation, my favorite teachers

When they beat us in the head with them books, it don't reach us

Whether you breakdance or rock suede addidas

Or be in the bathroom with your clique, smokin' reefer

Then you know they math class ain't important 'less you addin' up cash

In multiples, unemployment ain't rewardin'

They may as well teach us extortion

You either get paid or locked up, the principal is like a warden

In a four year sentence, mad **** never finish

But that doesn't mean I couldn't be a doctor or a dentist

They schools can't teach us shit

My people need freedom, we tryin' to get all we can get

All my high school teachers can suck my dick

Tellin' me white man lies, straight bullshit

They schools can't teach us shit

My people need freedom, we tryin' to get all we can get

All my high school teachers can suck my dick

Tellin' me white man lies, straight bullshit

They schools ain't teachin' us, what we need to know to survive (Say what, say what)

They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies

'Cause for reals, a mind is a terrible thing to waste

And all y'all high class **** with y'all nose up

'Cause we droppin' this shit on this joint, fuck y'all

We gon' speak for ourselves

Know what I'm sayin'? 'Cause see the schools ain't teachin' us nothin'

They ain't teachin' us nothin', but how to be slaves and hard workers

For white people to build up they shit

Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin' us

Know what I'm sayin'? And they ain't teachin' us nothin' related to

Solvin' our own problems, know what I'm sayin'?

Ain't teachin' us how to get crack out the ghetto

They ain't teachin' us how to stop the police from murdering us

And brutalizing us, they ain't teachin' us how to get our rent paid

Know what I'm sayin'? They ain't teachin' our families how to interact

Better with each other, know what I'm sayin'? They just teachin' us

How to build they shit up, know what I'm sayin'? That's why my ****

Got a problem with this shit, that's why **** be droppin' out that

Shit 'cause it don't relate, you go to school, the fuckin' police

Searchin' you, when you walkin' in your shit like this a military compound

Know what I'm sayin'? So school don't even relate to us

Until we have some shit where we control the fuckin' school system

Where we reflect how we gon' solve our own problems

Them **** ain't gon' relate to school, shit that just how it is

Know what I'm sayin'? And I love education, know what I'm sayin'?

But if education ain't elevatin' me, then you know what I'm sayin' it ain't

Takin' me where I need to go on some bullshit, then fuck education

Know what I'm sayin'? At least they shit, matter of fact my ****

This whole school system can suck my dick, beeyotch