You Must Learn Lyrics - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (bdp) - Krs One

Just like I told you, you must learn 

It's calm yet wild the style that I speak 

Just filled with facts and you will never get weak in the heart 

In fact you'll start to illuminate, knowledge to others in a song 

Let me demonstrate the force of knowledge 

Knowledge reigned supreme 

The ignorant is ripped to smithereens 

What do you mean when you say I'm rebellious 

'Cause I don't accept everything that you're telling us 

What are you selling us the creator dwellin' us 

I sit in your unknown class while you're failing' us 

I failed your class 'cause I ain't with your reasoning 

You're tryin' make me you by seasoning 

Up my mind with see Jane run, see John walk in a hardcore New York 

It doesn't exist no way, no how 

It seems to me that in a school that's ebony 

African history should be pumped up steadily, but it's not 

And this has got to stop, See Spot run, run get Spot 

Insulting to a Black mentality, a Black way of life 

Or a jet Black family, so I include with one concern, that 

You must learn 

Just like I told you, you must learn 

Just like I told you, you must learn 

I believe that if you're teaching history 

Filled with straight up facts no mystery 

Teach the student what needs to be taught 

'Cause Black and White kids both take shorts 

When one doesn't know about the other ones' culture 

Ignorance swoops down like a vulture 

'Cause you don't know that you ain't just a janitor 

No one told you about Benjamin Banneker 

A brilliant Black man that invented the almanac 

Can't you see where KRS is coming at 

With Eli Whitney, Haile Selassie 

Granville Woods made the walkie-talkie 

Lewis Latimer improved on Edison 

Charles Drew did a lot for medicine 

Garrett Morgan made the traffic lights 

Harriet Tubman freed the slaves at night 

Madame CJ Walker made a straightenin comb 

But you won't know this is you weren't shown 

The point I'm gettin' at it it might be harsh 

'Cause we're just walkin' around brainwashed 

So what I'm sayin' is not to diss a man 

We need the 80 school system 

One that caters to a Black return because 

You must learn 

Just like I told you, you must learn everday baby