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