They Schools Lyrics - Let's Get Free - Dead Prez

Why haven't you learned anything? 

Man that school shit is a joke 

The same people who control the school system control 

The prison system, and the whole social system 

Ever since slavery, nawsayin'? 

I went to school with some redneck crackers 

Right around the time 3rd bass dropped the cactus album 

But I was readin' Malcolm 

I changed my name in '89 cleaning parts of my brain 

Like a baby nine 

I took a history class serious 

Front row, every day of the week, 3rd period 

Fuckin' with the teachers had, callin' 'em racist 

I tried to show them crackers some light, they couldn't face it 

I got my diploma from a school called Rickers 

Full of, teenage mothers, and drug dealin' niggas 

In the hallways, the popo was always present 

Searchin' through niggas possessions 

Lookin' for, dope and weapons, get your lessons 

That's why my moms kept stressin' 

I tried to pay attention but they classes wasn't interestin' 

They seemed to only glorify the Europeans 

Claimin' Africans were only three fifth's a human being 

They schools can't teach us shit 

My people need freedom, we tryin' to get all we can get 

All my high school teachers can suck my dick 

Tellin' me white man lies straight bullshit 

They schools ain't teachin' us, what we need to know to survive 

(Say what, say what) 

They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies 

You see dog, you see how quick these motherfuckers be to like 

Be tellin' niggas get a diploma so you can get a job 

Know what I'm sayin' but they don't never tell you how the job 

Gonna exploit you every time know what I'm sayin' that's why I be like 

Fuck they schools 

School is like a 12 step brainwash camp 

They make you think if you drop out you ain't got a chance 

To advance in life, they try to make you pull your pants up 

Students fight the teachers and get took away in handcuffs 

And if that wasn't enough, then they expel y'all 

Your peoples understand it but to them, you a failure 

Observation and participation, my favorite teachers 

When they beat us in the head with them books, it don't reach us 

Whether you breakdance or rock suede addidas 

Or be in the bathroom with your clique, smokin' reefer 

Then you know they math class ain't important 'less you addin' up cash 

In multiples, unemployment ain't rewardin' 

They may as well teach us extortion 

You either get paid or locked up, the principal is like a warden 

In a four year sentence, mad niggas never finish 

But that doesn't mean I couldn't be a doctor or a dentist 

They schools can't teach us shit 

My people need freedom, we tryin' to get all we can get 

All my high school teachers can suck my dick 

Tellin' me white man lies straight bullshit 

They schools ain't teachin' us, what we need to know to survive 

(Say what, say what) 

They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies 

They schools can't teach us shit 

My people need freedom, we tryin' to get all we can get 

All my high school teachers can suck my dick 

Tellin' me white man lies straight bullshit 

They schools ain't teachin' us, what we need to know to survive 

(Say what, say what) 

They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies 

'Cuz for real, a mind is a terrible thing to waste 

And all y'all high class niggas with y'all nose up 

'Cuz we droppin' this shit on this joint, fuck y'all 

We gon' speak for ourselves 

Know what I'm sayin'? 'Cuz see the schools ain't teachin' us nothin' 

They ain't teachin' us nothin' but how to be slaves and hardworkers 

For white people to build up they shit 

Make they businesses successful while it's exploitin' us 

Know what I'm sayin'? And they ain't teachin' us nothin' related to 

Solvin' our own problems, know what I'm sayin'? 

Ain't teachin' us how to get crack out the ghetto 

They ain't teachin' us how to stop the police from murdering us 

And brutalizing us, they ain't teachin' us how to get our rent paid 

Know what I'm sayin'? They ain't teachin' our families how to interact 

Better with each other, know what I'm sayin'? They just teachin' us 

How to build they shit up, know what I'm sayin'? That's why my niggas 

Got a problem with this shit, that's why niggas be droppin' out that 

Shit 'cuz it don't relate, you go to school the fuckin' police 

Searchin' you you walkin' in your shit like this a military compound 

know what I'm sayin'? So school don't even relate to us 

Until we have some shit where we control the fuckin' school system 

Where we reflect how we gon solve our own problems 

Them niggas ain't gon' relate to school, shit that just how it is 

Know what I'm sayin'? And I love education, know what I'm sayin'? 

But if education ain't elevatin' me, then you know what I'm sayin' it ain't 

Takin' me where I need to go on some bullshit, then fuck education 

Know what I'm sayin'? At least they shit, matter of fact my nigga 

This whole school system can suck my dick, beeyotch