They School-Dead Prez

[00:00.00]Why haven't you learned anything? [00:03.68]Man that school s*it is a joke [00:07.09]The same people who control the school system control [00:10.37]The prison system, and the whole social system [00:14.91]Ever since slavery, naw I'm sayin? [00:23.23]I went to school with some redneck crackers [00:25.73]Right around the time 3rd bass dropped the cactus album [00:28.68]But i was readin malcolm [00:29.75]I changed my name in '** cleaning parts of my brain [00:32.42]Like a baby nine [00:33.74]I took a history class serious [00:35.72]Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period [00:38.42]F****n with the teachers had, callin em racist [00:41.05]I tried to show them crackers some light, they couldn't face it [00:43.61]I got my diploma from a school called rickers [00:46.15]Full of, teenage mothers, and drug dealin ****** [00:48.73]In the hallways, the popo was always present [00:51.09]Searchin through ****** possessions [00:52.63]Lookin for, **** and weapons, get your lessons [00:54.79]That's why my moms kept stressin [00:56.27]I tried to pay attention but they classes wasn't interestin [00:59.30]They seemed to only glorify the europeans [01:01.57]Claimin africans were only three-fifths a human being [01:04.24]They schools can't teach us s*it [01:06.42]My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get [01:09.12]All my high school teachers can suck my **** [01:11.68]Tellin me white man lies straight bulls*it [01:14.46]They schools aint teachin us, what we need to know to survive [01:23.81](say what, say what) [01:24.92]They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies [01:34.19]You see dog, you see how quick these motherf****rs be to like [01:36.76]Be tellin ****** get a diploma so you can get a job [01:39.63]Knowwhatimsayin but they don't never tell you how the job [01:41.98]Gonna exploit you every time knowwhatimsayin that's why i be like [01:44.82]**** they schools! [01:45.75]School is like a 12 step brainwash camp [01:47.90]They make you think if you drop out you aint got a chance [01:50.58]To advance in life, they try to make you pull your pants up [01:53.12]Students fight the teachers and get took away in handcuffs [01:58.39]Your peoples understand it but to them, you a failure [02:00.92]Observation and participation, my favorite teachers [02:03.49]When they beat us in the head with them books, it don't reach us [02:06.17]Whether you breakdance or rock suede addidas [02:08.68]Or be in the bathroom with your clique, smokin reefer [02:11.32]Then you know they math class aint important 'less you addin up cash [02:13.92]In multiples, unemployment aint rewardin [02:16.55]They may as well teach us extortion [02:18.59]You either get paid or locked up, the pricipal is like a warden [02:21.56]In a four year sentence, mad ****** never finish [02:24.07]But that doesn't mean i couldn't be a doctor or a dentist [02:26.77]They schools can't teach us s*it [02:28.97]My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get [02:31.77]All my high school teachers can suck my **** [02:34.34]Tellin me white man lies straight bulls*it [02:36.95]They schools can't teach us s*it [02:38.88]My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get [02:42.04]All my high school teachers can suck my **** [02:44.66]Tellin me white man lies straight bulls*it [02:47.22]They schools aint teachin us, what we need to know to survive [02:56.41](say what, say what) [02:57.88]They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies [03:09.00] [03:40.21]Cuz for real, a mind is a terrible thing to waste [03:43.67]And all y'all high class ****** with y'all nose up [03:46.21]Cuz we droppin this s*it on this joint, **** y'all [03:49.33]We gon speak for ourselves [03:51.19]Knowhatimsayin? cuz see the schools aint teachin us nothin [03:54.24]They aint teachin us nothin but how to be slaves and hardworkers [03:57.67]For white people to build up they s*it [04:00.01]Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin us [04:03.13]Knowhatimsayin? and they aint teachin us nothin related to [04:06.23]Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin? [04:08.69]Aint teachin us how to get crack out the ghetto [04:10.39]They aint teachin us how to stop the police from murdering us [04:13.97]And brutalizing us, they aint teachin us how to get our rent paid [04:17.54]Knowhatimsayin? they aint teachin our families how to interact [04:20.35]Better with each other, knowhatimsayin? they just teachin us [04:23.71]How to build they s*it up, knowhatimsayin? that's why my ****** [04:26.34]Got a problem with this s*it, that's why ****** be droppin out that [04:29.36]S*it cuz it don't relate, you go to school the f****n police [04:32.02]Searchin you you walkin in your s*it like this a military compound [04:35.97]Knowhatimsayin? so school don't even relate to us [04:38.66]Until we have some s*it where we control the f****n school system [04:42.61]Where we reflect how we gon solve our own problems [04:45.05]Them ****** aint gon relate to school, s*it that just how it is [04:49.34]Knowhatimsayin? and i love education, knowhatimsayin? [04:52.33]But if education aint elevatin me, then you knowhatimsayin it aint [04:56.05]Takin me where i need to go on some bulls*it, then **** education [04:59.40]Knowhatimsayin? at least they s*it, matter of fact my ***** [05:02.46]This whole school system can suck my ****, beeyotch!!