Dead prez - They Schools lyrics

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, naw I'm sayin'?

I went to school with some redneck crackers
Right around the time 3rd Bass
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 they history class serious
Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period
Fucking 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 niggas
In the hallways, the po-po was always present
Searching through niggas possessions
Looking 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
Claiming Africans was only three-fifths
Of human beings

They schools can't teach us shit
My people need freedom
We trying to get all we can get
All my high school teachers can suck my dick
Telling me white man lies straight bullshit
(bullshit) 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
Motherfuckers be to like
Be telling niggas 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
Fuck they schools!

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 class 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 niggas never finish
But that doesn't mean I couldn't be
A doctor or a dentist

They schools can't teach us shit
My people need freedom
We trying to get all we can get
All my high school teachers can suck my dick
Telling me white man lies straight bullshit
(bullshit) 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
(Y'all know they don't give a fuck about us)

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
Ain't teachin' us nuthin'
They ain't teachin' us nuthin' 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 nuthin' 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 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 ain't gon relate to school
Shit 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 bullshit, then fuck education
Knowhatimsayin'? At least they shit
Matter of fact my nigga
This whole school system can suck my dick
BEEYOTCH!