They Schools lyrics

Artist  : Dead Prez 
Song : They Schools



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 Why haven’t you learned anything? 

Man that school sh*t is a joke
The same people who control the school system
control
The prison system, and the whole social system
Ever since slavery, nawsayin? 

[verse 1]
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
f**kin with the teachers had, 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 niggas
In the hallways, the popo was always present
Searchin through niggas 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-fifths a human
being

Hook:
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
(echoes)
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 dog, you see how quick these
motherf**kers be to like
Be tellin niggas get a diploma so you can get a
job
Knowwhatimsayin but they don’t never tell you
how the job
Gonna exploit you every time knowwhatimsayin
that’s why I be like
f**k they schools!

[verse 2]
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 pricipal is
like a warden
In a four year sentence, mad niggas never finish
But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t be a doctor
or a dentist

Hook(first part of hook twice)

Cuz for real, a mind is a terrible thing to
waste
And all y’all high class niggas with y’all
nose up
Cuz we droppin this sh*t on this joint, f**k
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 shit
Make they businesses successful while it’s
exploitin us
Knowhatimsayin? and they ain’t teachin us
nothin related to
Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin? 
Aint 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*t up, knowhatimsayin?
that’s why my niggas
Got a problem with this shit, that’s why niggas
be droppin out that
Shit cuz it don’t relate, you go to school the
f**kin police
Searchin you you walkin in your sh*t like this a
military compound
Knowhatimsayin? so school don’t even relate to
us
Until we have some sh*t where we control the
f**kin school system
Where we reflect how we gon solve our own
problems
Them niggas ain’t gon relate to school, sh*t
that just how it is
Knowhatimsayin? and I love education,
knowhatimsayin? 
But if education ain’t elevatin me, then you
knowhatimsayin it aint
Takin me where I need to go on some bullshit,
then f**k education
Knowhatimsayin? at least they shit, matter of
fact my nigga
This whole school system can suck my dick,
beeyotch!!