Why Is That-Boogie Down Productions

[ti:Why Is That] [ar:Boogie Down Productions] [al:Ghetto Music The Blueprint Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why Is That - Boogie Down Productions [00:03.52]Verse One [00:20.92]The day begins with a grin [00:22.86]And a prayer to excuse my sins [00:25.66]I can walk anywhere I choose [00:27.54]Cause everybody listens to the B D P crew [00:30.03]We're not here for glamour or fashion [00:32.47]But here's the question I'm askin [00:35.58]Why is it young black kids taught flashin [00:37.77]They're only taught how to read write and act [00:41.01]It's like teachin a dog to be a cat [00:42.95]You don't teach white kids to be black [00:44.88]Why is that Is it because we're the minority [00:48.19]Well black kids follow me [00:50.62]Genesis chapter eleven verse ten [00:52.49]Explains the geneology of Chem [00:55.05]Chem was a black man in Africa [00:57.49]If you repeat this fact they can't laugh at ya [01:01.98]Genesis fourteen verse thirteen [01:03.48]Abraham steps on the scene [01:05.36]Being a descendent of Chem which is a fact [01:08.41]Means Abraham too was black [01:10.90]Abraham born in the city of a black man [01:13.03]Called Nimrod grandson of Kam [01:14.53]Kam had four sons one was named Canaan [01:18.83]Here let me do some explaining [01:20.46]Abraham was the father of Isaac [01:22.45]Isaac was the father of Jacob [01:25.01]Jacob had twelve sons for real [01:27.57]And these were the children of Isreal [01:30.19]According to Genesis chapter ten [01:32.31]Egyptains descended from Hahm Kam [01:34.49]Six hundred years later my brother read up [01:37.98]Moses was born in Egypt [01:41.10]In this era black Egyptians weren't right [01:43.11]They enslaved black Isrealites [01:44.23]Moses had to be of the black race [01:47.22]Because he spent fourty years in Pharoah's place [01:49.72]He passed as the Pharoah's grandson [01:51.03]So he had to look just like him [01:52.84]Yes my brothers and sisters take this here song [01:56.15]Yo correct the wrong [01:57.14]The information we get today is just wack [01:59.27]But ask yourself why is that [02:01.01]Verse Two [02:01.82]The age of the ignorant rapper is done [02:02.01] [02:22.75]Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone [02:24.81]The stereotype must be lost [02:27.56]That love and peace and knowledge is soft [02:30.30]Do away with that and understand one fact [02:33.19]For love peace must attack [02:35.44]And attack real strong stronger than war [02:38.73]To conquer it and its law [02:40.49]Mental pictures stereotypes and fake history [02:43.04]Reinforces mystery [02:43.66]And when mystery is reinforced [02:47.28]That only means that knowledge has been lost [02:51.15]When you know who you really are [02:53.28]Peace and knowledge shines like a star [02:55.58]I'm only showin you a simple fact [02:57.52]It Takes A Nation of MILLIONS to Hold Us people Back [03:00.89]Which is wack but we can correct that [03:02.83]Teach and learn what it is to be black [03:05.07]Cause they're teachin birds to be a cat [03:07.51]But ask yourself homeboy why is that