(chorus:harmony) Heal yourself you got to heal
(kid talks)
(big kane) Mama said don't do and smoke you know it will make your nose grow like pinnochio Since I was 15 I had to listen To was said for my parent was a christian I went to and saw all my friends do it But I said no 'cause I don't want my nose to They tripping on me, busting and flipping on me So I had to front and say yo, true, it on me I started smoking to prove I'm an Now it's a habt but is it all my I my mother would have told me the truth now I'm all based out, ma dukes
(kid capri) Oh man I like the way that's down Now why you do is kick a little freddie foxx
(freddie foxxx) Everybody as I present to a jet black crowd it's like to be black and proud In a world white is right but not tonight This is a black man's I heard a sister say she don't like shades of black On a man 'cause that's But to my light skin sister can't you You're the surface of a dark deep well And how can you prefer to be wit sprayed you wit gun and hoses And put roses on the graves Of the slaves that they treated like 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 when a girl tries to say she do it to herself Always fantasizing but denying Last night she had to stop her baby was crying She do it on the phone all wit a smile Run the water, grab the shower cap and get 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 possess by the basehead demon
(mc lyte) In elementary, lyte had the look me and any other kid who cared about books But I got wise and I begin to listen To the wack teachers and the wick-wack My put me in ? Which means black in swahili And there is where I learned black And how to be the that I can be I went back and now the school is is nowhere for black youth to go To be by brothers and sisters who knows what it means To be a black or a white teen In the end the is being mistreated means the world is being cheated
(queen latifah) Dane was never taught her was worth something But when people don't try to improve it makes me to hurt something You to be somebody and be a standout But got your handout, oh broke, I guess it's off to your man's house Why is sister's giving up the Today it seems not to you too hard They call us squeezers and you prove it to the You to earn the right to say it's ladies first
(kid capri) Oh man this is education against lies You better know the kid
(krs-one) Human education against tries To the eyes of humanity before it dies Black and white the real fight That's the only thing the media The real fight are these major back on real 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 know about this, tell 'em melodie
(ms melodie) Daddy's home since he lost his job His new line of work is now up mom Mom is scared, she know what to do Her beautiful skin is now and blue She to cry, now she's back in the pen A human war women and men
(kid capri) Melodie, kid
(jam jay and dmc) Jam jay on the way, yo Human education lies To all the and to all the guys Get paid, get it Get a good grade, live to a old age out jet, no disrespect To each and member of the opposite sexes Is yes, listen to the 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 immune defiency Aids, we're to make you get wise Human education against
(kid talks)