Akala - Get Educated lyrics

Gordon Bennett! I'm flabbergasted
Smart Bastard why don’t he play his role
And just act retarded
'cause when you’re born single parent
Poor thats your place
Don’t read too many books
Sag your jeans screw your face chat shit
Act thick practice
Your backflips
Put your motherfucking arse out
For the cameras
Providing entertainment for your
Cultural betters
Men of letters think we can only
Be good if they let us, 'cause
Knowledge ain't for punks
They market it like it is
Cos who the fuck wants to
Be Carlton from fresh prince
But geeks designed the system
Devisions of politicians
Marthis, and the smiths were
Livin' in their vison so, knowledge is power
For devouring cowards that shower'd you
With propaganda each and every
Hour that’s why malcolm never died as
Just another tug on the road
A symbol over the globe 'cause did you know?

The most rebellious thing you can
Do is get educated
Forget what they told you in school
Get educated
I ain't sayin' play by the rules
Get educated get educated
Get educated get educated
Break the chains of their enslavement
Get educated
Even if you're on the pavement, get educated
What a weapon that your brain is
Get educated get educated
Get educated

We speak of power when we speak of education
Free your body, free your mind
What you think Toussaint did?
Planned rebellion
That’s the way to use your brain kid
That’s the only way we're gonna make
It outta this matrix but
Gotta know the basics
We can look around say that we hate it but
But how do we change it
Or rearrange it, all to replace it
Gotta step into the mind that designed ya
What do you reckon when you
Step into the fire
What are you reppin' is it definitely bias
Severing your effort in the
Ways they require?
Act like you're lesser than better
Severing endeavors is clever
I know a bag of youths that
Act like they ain't clever
Cause it's become fashionable to say
We all clap a tool
Never symbols of the state
Only those that look like you
So whose job are we doin', pursuin' our ruin
The riddle ain't very hard
Brother you fill the clue in
So when we clappin' our tools
And play the fool
We ain't breakin' the rules
It ain't very cool, you know what to do

Forget what they told you in school
Get educated
I ain't sayin' play by the rules
Get educated get educated
Get educated get educated
Break the chains of their enslavement
Get educated
Even if you're on the pavement, get educated
What a weapon that your brain is
Get educated get educated
Get educated

So you want to hide something from Blacks
Then you should put it in a book
Still some brothers won't even look
It's like they shook its not just us
Dumber you act the more they promote it
'cause dumb people will not rebel
Sure you know this
Yo, look at the dreams that
They feed to our babies, your seeds
Look at the means that they tell
Us you make all the P's
Dumb celebrities say girls act like you're me
If you suck dick and film it
Get a show on TV
Because we don't want too many
Women thinkin' like bell hooks
We want a bag of hookers that
Bend over and just cook
Our silicone addressers do anything
To impress us of course a woman's life is
Lived just for the fellas
Much as the next man
I love a woman that's shaped up
But there's nothing more unattractive than
A woman that play dumb
But the ego with a reason to see you
Lesser than equal to be you
But wanna keep you
At all the bullshit that we do deceitful
And we're evil i wouldn't want to be you
Putting up with our bullshit
And I mean me too
The anger burns inside of me, violently
It's dividing me one moment I'm cool
The next I think that you're tryin' me
'cause of course I believe
In peace, theoretically, generally
But if you love something then
You got to defend it, see
Not tellin' you be a coward
No coward could be a friend to me
You should know your enemy
Cut the head of a centipede
But know the one whose head
Needs to get severed
For the one who just lives it cos
They just don't really know no better
The yout across the block
Ain't your enemy brother
And if you really knew the truth
You'd be defending each other

Forget what they told you in school
Get educated
I ain't sayin' play by the rules
Get educated get educated
Get educated get educated
Break the chains of their enslavement
Get educated
Even if you're on the pavement, get educated
What a weapon that your brain is
Get educated get educated
Get educated