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