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?      [Verse 1]   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 head, 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-fifths a human beings      HOOK:   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 (echoes)   They schools aint 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   Knowwhatimsayin but they don't never tell you how the job   Gonna exploit you every time knowwhatimsayin that's why I be like   Fuck they schools!      [Verse 2]   School is like a 12 step brainwash camp   They make you think if you drop out you aint 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 aint important 'less you addin up cash   In multiples, unemployment aint 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      HOOK(first part of hook twice)      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   Knowhatimsayin? Cuz see the schools aint teachin us nothin   They aint 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   Knowhatimsayin? And they aint teachin us nothin related to   Solvin our own problems, knowhatimsayin?   Aint teachin us how to get crack out the ghetto   They aint teachin us how to stop the police from murdering us   And brutalizing us, they aint teachin us how to get our rent paid   Knowhatimsayin? They aint teachin our families how to interact   Better with each other, knowhatimsayin? They just teachin us   How to build they shit up, knowhatimsayin? 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   Knowhatimsayin? 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 aint gon relate to school, shit that just how it is   Knowhatimsayin? And I love education, knowhatimsayin?   But if education aint elevatin me, then you knowhatimsayin it aint   Takin me where I need to go on some bullshit, then fuck education   Knowhatimsayin? At least they shit, matter of fact my nigga   this whole school system can suck my dick, BEEYOTCH!!