(chorus:harmony) Heal yourself you got to yourself
(kid talks)
(big kane) said don't do crack and smoke you know 'cause it will make your nose like pinnochio I was only 15 I had to listen To what was said for my parent was a I went to school and saw all my do it But I said no I don't want my nose to grow started tripping on me, busting and flipping on me So I had to front and say yo, true, it on me I smoking to prove I'm an adult Now a habt but is it all my fault I wished my mother would have me the truth now I'm all based out, ma dukes
(kid capri) Oh man I the way that's going down Now why you do is kick a little freddie foxx
(freddie foxxx) Everybody rise as I present to a jet crowd What it's like to be and proud In a world where white is right but not This is a black might I heard a sister say she don't like darker of black On a man that's wack But to my light skin sister you tell You're just the surface of a dark well And how can you to be wit those That you wit gun and hoses And never put roses on the Of the that they treated like dirt After all that work
(kid capri) Clap your hands to the beat, c'mon, just clap your to the beat it now
(ll j) One of the biggest lies you hear no one else Is when a girl to say she don't do it to herself fantasizing but steadily denying Last night she had to stop her baby was crying She do it on the phone all alone wit a Run the water, grab the cap and get buckwhyled Soap suds on the floor, oh al b 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, lyte had the jordache me and any other kid who cared about books But then I got wise and I begin to To the wack teachers and the system My put me in ? means black school in swahili And there is where I black history And how to be the best I can be I went back and now the is closed There is nowhere for black to go To be taught by and sisters who knows what it means To be a black or a white teen In the end the is being mistreated Which means the world is being
(queen latifah) Dane was never taught her life was something But people don't try to improve it makes me want to hurt something You want to be somebody and be a But got your handout, oh broke, I guess it's off to your man's house Why is giving up the ball Today it seems not to father you too call us squeezers and you prove it to the worst You to earn the right to say it's ladies first
(kid capri) Oh man this is education against lies You know the flavor kid
(krs-one) education against lies tries To the eyes of humanity before it dies Black and white ain't the real That's the only thing the hypes The real fight are major corporations Holding back on education Before you're a color, first human Teaching humanity is what we're
(kid capri) And when you thought you knew everything there was to know You didn't anything about this, tell 'em melodie
(ms melodie) Daddy's home everyday he lost his job His new of work 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 war between women and men
(kid capri) Melodie, kid
(jam jay and dmc) Jam jay on the way, yo Human education against To all the girls and to all the Get paid, get it Get a grade, live to a very old age out jet, no disrespect To and every member of the opposite sexes Is yes, to the messages and I send some We never knew where the poison came Yo, we're on h.e.a.l. so we thought we like to mention Acquired defiency syndrome Aids, we're to make you get wise Human against lies
(kid talks)