Just Don't Learn (Explicit)-Grand Puba/Brand Nubian

[ti:Just Don't Learn (Clean)] [ar:Brand Nubian] [al:Who Wanna Be A Star? (It's Brand Nu Baby!) (12")] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Just Don't Learn (Explicit) - Brand Nubian [00:22.79]We dealin with death in abundance [00:24.68]Dirty guns and the pungent smell of those who fell [00:28.69]Bodies like commodoties ready to sell [00:31.50]Take you around the world for a hundred dollars [00:34.23]Meanwhile a little baby hollers [00:36.31]Hopin that she doesn't follow in her mother's footsteps [00:39.43]Of *** and sex every day [00:41.77]More thugs to arrest [00:43.16]And today could be the day [00:44.73]You catch a slug in your chest [00:46.06]Funny thing about life - nobody gets out alive [00:48.89]The trick is to see how long you can survive [00:51.96]We deprived of our basic needs [00:53.76]Sufferin at the hands of a racist greed [00:56.75]In the black woman's where I place my seed [00:59.70]When they grow will they know [01:01.46]That I tried to make it better for them [01:03.28]Will I be dead or inside of a federal pen [01:06.08]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn [01:09.05]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [01:11.53]Death from New York to Cali the sh*t hits homes [01:14.89]Niggaz with 40 calibers that'll split ya bone [01:17.67]Other niggaz with silencers with gats that's chrome [01:20.76]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [01:23.34]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [01:26.39]Livin with the constant threat that it could be yo' turn [01:29.45]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn [01:32.35]On 8th Ave keep bouncin in the Mave' [01:35.40]He don't even know the type of problems he gon' have [01:38.35]He facin obstacles greed it's the large city need [01:41.85]Remember when he ain't smoke w**d [01:43.86]Jail hold's raw spittin seed [01:46.36]In the Polo Grounds in 89 we dodged steed [01:49.78]All the slaves ain't freed [01:51.83]Make him the captain muh'f**ker we'll lead [01:54.90]Shoot him in the chest muh'f**ker will bleed [01:57.72]Cause way he's goin he's gon' need God-speed [02:00.36]I seen a man die gettin shot in the eye [02:04.39]And then leave this earth with a sigh [02:07.16]I wish I had a dollar for every funeral parlor [02:10.04]That I been to and I ain't tryin to end to [02:12.67]I've been a friend to a lot of dead niggaz [02:15.26]With multiple gunshots niggaz used to run spots [02:18.94]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [02:21.08]Death from New York to Cali the sh*t hits homes [02:24.36]Niggaz with 40 calibers that'll split ya bone [02:27.06]Other niggaz with silencers with gats that's chrome [02:30.21]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [02:33.04]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [02:35.84]Livin with the constant threat that it could be yo' turn [02:38.67]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn [02:41.55]Now little shorties don't have a chance [02:43.71]Cause hard times be comin down like a avalanche [02:46.43]We play the streets until we carried on a ambulance [02:49.42]Day by day we be the victims of the circumstance [02:52.45]See the poison has us movin at a steady flow [02:55.20]It filters through your radio and your video [02:57.68]You ever once stop to think and wonder why it's so [03:01.16]We don't know cause we blinded by the fog of 'dro [03:04.02]So we let it go [03:05.32]We dedicate our whole careers to save our dyin nation [03:08.31]Cause what we facin is the process of elimination [03:11.31]So busy chasin that our history begins erasin [03:13.93]A savage nation that is headin for anihilation [03:16.84]Time out - put the killin to a drought [03:19.59]And shorty stop runnin around [03:21.15]Puttin all them dicks in yo' mouth [03:22.57]I be concerned cause we burn baby burn [03:25.25]And we just don't learn [03:28.59]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [03:30.59]Death from New York to Cali the sh*t hits homes [03:33.91]Niggaz with 40 calibers that'll split ya bone [03:36.56]Other niggaz with silencers with gats that's chrome [03:39.68]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [03:42.55]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [03:45.31]Livin with the constant threat that it could be yo' turn [03:48.39]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn [03:51.07]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [03:53.99]Death from New York to Cali the sh*t hits homes [03:57.07]Niggaz with 40 calibers that'll split ya bone [03:59.81]Other niggaz with silencers with gats that's chrome [04:03.06]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [04:05.67]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [04:08.45]Livin with the constant threat that it could be yo' turn [04:11.59]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn