Why haven't you learned anything?
Man that school sh** is a joke
The same people who control the school system control
The prison system, and the whole social system
Ever since slavery, naw I'm saying?
[Verse 1 - stic.man]
I went to school with some redneck crackers
Right around the time 3rd Ba** dropped the Cactus Album
But I was reading Malcolm
I changed my name in '89 cleaning parts of my brain
Like a baby nine
I took a history cla** serious
Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period
f**ing with the teachers head, calling em racist
I tried to show them crackers some light, they couldn't face it
I got my diploma from a school called Rickards
Full of, teenage mothers, and drug dealing n***as
In the hallways, the popo was always present
Searching through n***as possessions
Looking for, dope and weapons, get your lessons
That's why my moms kept stressin'
I tried to pay attention but they cla**es wasn't interestin'
They seemed to only glorify the Europeans
Claiming Africans were only three-fifths a human being
HOOK:
They schools can't teach us sh**
My people need freedom, we trying to get all we can get
All my high school teachers can s** my dick
Telling me white man lies straight bullsh** (echoes)
They schools ain't teaching 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 dog, you see how quick these motherf**ers be to like
Be telling n***as get a diploma so you can get a job
Know what I'm saying but they don't never tell you how the job
Gonna exploit you every time know what I'm saying that's why I be like
f** they schools!
[Verse 2 - M-1]
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 Adidas
Or be in the bathroom with your clique, smoking reefer
Then you know they math cla** ain't important 'less you adding 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 n***as never finish
But that doesn't mean I couldn't be a doctor or a dentist
[Outro]
Cuz for real, a mind is a terrible thing to waste
And all y'all high cla** n***as with y'all nose up
Cuz we droppin this sh** on this joint, f** y'all
We gon speak for ourselves
Knowhatimsayin? Cuz see the schools ain't teachin us nothin
They ain't teachin us nothin but how to be slaves and hardworkers
For white people to build up they sh**
Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin us
Knowhatimsayin? And they ain't teachin us nothin related to
Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin?
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
Knowhatimsayin? They ain't teachin our families how to interact
Better with each other, knowhatimsayin? They just teachin us
How to build they sh** up, knowhatimsayin? That's why my n***as
Got a problem with this sh**, that's why n***as be droppin out that
sh** cuz it don't relate, you go to school the f**in police
Searchin you you walkin in your sh** like this a military compound
Knowhatimsayin? So school don't even relate to us
Until we have some sh** where we control the f**in school system
Where we reflect how we gon solve our own problems
Them n***as ain't gon relate to school, sh** that just how it is
Knowhatimsayin? And I love education, knowhatimsayin?
But if education ain't elevatin me, then you knowhatimsayin it ain't
Takin me where I need to go on some bullsh**, then f** education
Knowhatimsayin? At least they sh**, matter of fact my n***a
This whole school system can s** my dick, BEEYOTCH!!