(chorus:harmony) Heal yourself you got to heal
(kid talks)
(big kane) said don't do crack and smoke you know 'cause it will your nose grow like pinnochio Since I was 15 I had to listen To what was for my parent was a christian I to school and saw all my friends do it But I said no 'cause I want my nose to grow started tripping on me, busting and flipping on me So I had to and say yo, true, stick it on me I smoking to prove I'm an adult Now it's a habt but is it all my I wished my mother would told me the truth 'cause now I'm all out, ma dukes
(kid capri) Oh man I like the way that's going Now why won't you do is kick a little foxx
(freddie foxxx) Everybody rise as I to a jet black crowd What it's like to be and proud In a world where white is but not tonight is a black man's might I heard a sister say she don't like darker of black On a man 'cause wack But to my light skin sister you tell You're just the of a dark deep well And how can you to be wit those That you wit gun and hoses And never put roses on the Of the slaves they treated like dirt all that hard work
(kid capri) Clap your hands to the beat, c'mon, clap your hands to the beat it now
(ll j) One of the biggest you hear from no one else Is a girl tries to say she don't do it to herself Always but steadily denying Last night she had to stop 'cause her was crying She do it on the phone all alone wit a Run the water, grab the cap and get buckwhyled Soap on the floor, oh al b sure Give it to me, give it to me, me a little more I'm fiending, creaming, screaming, (what else) The girl's possess by the demon
(mc lyte) In elementary, had the jordache look Like me and any other kid who cared about But I got wise and I begin to listen To the wack and the wick-wack system My put me in ? Which black school in swahili And there is where I learned history And how to be the that I can be I back and now the school is closed There is nowhere for black to go To be taught by and sisters who knows what it means To be a black child or a teen In the end the youth is mistreated Which means the is being cheated
(queen latifah) was never taught her life was worth something But when people try to improve it makes me want to hurt something You want to be and be a standout But got your handout, oh you're broke, I it's off to your man's house Why is sister's up the ball it seems not to father you too hard They call us squeezers and you it to the worst You have to earn the right to say ladies first
(kid capri) Oh man this is education against lies You better the flavor kid
(krs-one) Human education against tries To the eyes of humanity before it dies Black and white ain't the fight That's the only the media hypes The real fight are these major Holding back on education you're a color, first you're human Teaching humanity is what we're
(kid capri) And when you thought you knew everything there was to know You know anything about this, tell 'em melodie
(ms melodie) Daddy's everyday since he lost his job His new line of is now beating up mom Mom is scared, she doesn't what to do Her beautiful skin is now and blue She used to cry, now she's in the pen A human war women and men
(kid capri) Melodie, kid
(jam jay and dmc) Jam jay on the way, yo education against lies To all the girls and to all the Get paid, get it Get a grade, live to a very old age Checking out jet, no To each and every of the opposite sexes Is yes, listen to the and I send some We never knew where the came from Yo, we're rapping on h.e.a.l. so we thought we to mention Acquired immune syndrome Aids, we're here to make you get education against lies
(kid talks)