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, 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

Fuckin 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 aint 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 motherfuckers 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

Fuck they schools!



[Verse 2]

School is like a 12 step brainwash camp

They make you think if you drop out you aint 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 aint important 'less you addin up cash

In multiples, unemployment aint 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 shit on this joint, fuck y'all

We gon speak for ourselves

Knowhatimsayin? Cuz see the schools aint teachin us nothin

They aint 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 aint teachin us nothin related to

Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin?

Aint teachin us how to get crack out the ghetto

They aint teachin us how to stop the police from murdering us

And brutalizing us, they aint teachin us how to get our rent paid

Knowhatimsayin? They aint teachin our families how to interact

Better with each other, knowhatimsayin? They just teachin us

How to build they shit 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 fuckin police

Searchin you you walkin in your shit like this a military compound

Knowhatimsayin? 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 niggas aint gon relate to school, shit that just how it is

Knowhatimsayin? And I love education, knowhatimsayin?

But if education aint elevatin me, then you knowhatimsayin it aint

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

Knowhatimsayin? At least they shit, matter of fact my nigga

this whole school system can suck my dick, BEEYOTCH!!