They School (Explicit)-Dead Prez

[ti:'They' Schools] [ar:Dead Prez] [al:Let's Get Free] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]They School (他们学校) (Explicit) - Dead Prez [00:00.20]Written by：C. Gavin/L. Alford/Andrew Mair/V. Williams [00:00.30] [00:03.83]Man that school sh*t is a joke [00:06.31] [00:07.19]The same people who control the school system control [00:10.11]The prison system and the whole social system [00:15.04]Ever since slavery [00:16.06] [00:17.70]Nawsayin [00:18.35] [00:23.41]I went to school with some redneck crackers [00:25.98]Right around the time 3rd Bass dropped the cactus album [00:28.15]But I was readin Malcolm [00:29.40]I changed my name in '89 [00:31.06]Cleaning parts of my brain like a baby nine [00:33.48]I took a history class serious [00:36.43]Front row every day of the week 3rd period [00:38.95]F**kin with the teachers head callin em racist [00:41.40]I tried to show them crackers some light [00:42.95]They couldn't face it [00:43.87]I got my diploma from a school called Rickers [00:46.18]Full of teenage mothers and drug dealin niggas [00:48.51]In the hallways the popo was always present [00:51.15]Searchin through niggas possessions [00:52.89]Lookin for d**e and weapons [00:53.79]Get your lessons [00:54.97]That's why my moms kept stressin [00:56.76]I tried to pay attention but they classes weren't interestin [00:59.29]They seemed to only glorify the Europeans [01:01.37]Claimin Africans were only three-fifths o' human beings [01:04.40]They schools can't teach us sh*t [01:06.50]My people need freedom [01:07.73]We tryin to get all we can get [01:09.56]All my high school teachers can suck my dick [01:11.81]Tellin me white man lies straight bullshit (echoes) [01:14.61]They schools ain't teachin us [01:19.38]What we need to know to survive (Say what say what) [01:24.93]They schools don't educate [01:28.56] [01:29.58]All they teach the people is lies [01:34.29]You see dog you see how quick these motherf**kers be to like [01:36.86]Be tellin niggas get a diploma so you can get a job [01:39.78]Knowwhatimsayin but they don't never tell you how the job [01:42.12]Gonna exploit you every time knowwhatimsayin [01:43.84]That's why I be like [01:45.31]F**k they schools [01:46.03]School is like a 12 step brainwash camp [01:47.83]They make you think if you drop out you ain't got a chance [01:51.09]To advance in life [01:52.00]They try to make you pull your pants up [01:53.98]Students fight the teachers [01:54.92]And get took away in handcuffs [01:56.28]And if that wasn't enough [01:57.50]Then they expel y'all [01:58.59]Your peoples understand it but to them [02:00.29]You a failure [02:01.03]Observation and participation [02:01.83]My favorite teachers [02:02.65]When they beat us in the head with them books [02:05.22]It don't reach us [02:06.39]Whether you breakdance or rock suede addidas [02:08.42]Or be in the bathroom with your clique smokin reefer [02:11.17]Then you know they math class ain't important [02:13.40]'Less you addin up cash [02:14.75]In multiples unemployment ain't rewardin [02:16.19]They may as well teach us extortion [02:18.33]You either get paid or locked up [02:20.58]The principal is like a warden [02:22.10]In a four year sentence mad niggas never finish [02:24.51]But that doesn't mean I couldn't be a doctor or a dentist [02:27.72]They schools can't teach us sh*t [02:29.23]My people need freedom we tryin to get all we can get [02:31.98]All my high school teachers can suck my dick [02:34.09]Tellin me white man lies straight bullshit (echoes) [02:36.67]They schools can't teach us sh*t [02:38.64]My people need freedom we tryin to get all we can get [02:42.34]All my high school teachers can suck my dick [02:44.84]Tellin me white man lies straight bullshit (echoes) [02:47.29]They schools ain't teachin us [02:50.86] [02:52.14]What we need to know to survive (Say what say what) [02:57.83]They schools don't educate [03:01.74] [03:02.51]All they teach the people is lies [03:40.39]Cuz for real a mind is a terrible thing to waste [03:43.70]And all y'all high class niggas with y'all nose up [03:45.87]Cuz we droppin this sh*t on this joint f**k y'all [03:49.06]We gon speak for ourselves [03:50.70]Knowhatimsayin [03:52.39]Cuz see the schools ain't teachin us nothin [03:54.56]They ain't teachin us nothin [03:55.67]But how to be slaves and hardworkers [03:57.12]For white people to build up they sh*t [04:00.33]Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin us [04:03.03]Knowhatimsayin And they ain't teachin us nothin related to [04:07.10]Solvin our own problems knowhatimsayin [04:08.39]Ain't teachin us how to get crack out the ghetto [04:11.16]They ain't teachin us how to stop the police from murdering us [04:14.10]And brutalizing us [04:15.39]They ain't teachin us how to get our rent paid [04:17.41]Knowhatimsayin [04:18.28]They ain't teachin our families how to interact [04:20.75]Better with each other [04:21.85]Knowhatimsayin They just teachin us [04:23.58]How to build they sh*t up [04:24.91]Knowhatimsayin That's why my niggas [04:26.79]Got a problem with this sh*t [04:28.45]That's why niggas be droppin out that [04:29.97]Sh*t cuz it don't relate [04:31.01]You go to school the f**kin police [04:32.58]Searchin you you walkin in your sh*t like [04:34.57]This a military compound [04:35.44] [04:36.43]Knowhatimsayin [04:36.96]So school don't even relate to us [04:38.86]Until we have some sh*t where we control the f**kin school system [04:42.78]Where we reflect how we gon solve our own problems [04:45.88]Them niggas ain't gon relate to school [04:47.88]Sh*t that just how it is [04:49.48]Knowhatimsayin And I love education [04:51.12]Knowhatimsayin [04:52.23]But if education ain't elevatin me [04:53.85] [04:54.72]Then you knowhatimsayin it ain't [04:56.09]Takin me where I need to go on some bullshit [04:58.18]Then f**k education [04:58.89]Knowhatimsayin [05:00.09]At least they sh*t matter of fact my ni**a [05:02.53]This whole school system can suck my dick BEEYOTCH