My man D-Nice, D-Nice is in the booth   Workin harder than ever   D-Nice is rockin the sound set tonight   We're not through, I wanna drop a new style      Verse One:      It's calm yet wild the style that I speak   Just deal 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 dwell in 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   Come on now, that's like a chocolate cow   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      (Yo Kris) What?   Hold up D, hold up D   We gonna see if they really ready for this   Are y'all having fun tonight?   I said are y'all having fun tonight?      Verse Two:      I believe that if you're teaching history   Deal 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 Elie Whitney, Haile Selassie   Granville Woods made the walkie talkie   Lewis Lattimer improved on Edison   Charles Drew did a lot for medicine   Garrett Morgan made the traffic lights   Harriett Tubman freed the slaves at night   Madame CJ Walker made a straightin comb   But you won't know this is you weren't shown   The point I'm gettin at it it might be harsh   Is we're just walkin' around brainwashed   So what I'm sayin is not to diss em man   We need the 89 school system   One that caters to a Black fratern because   You must learn      Whattup cameraman?   Let me here you say hoooo!!!!   We're not through with the ragga stuff   We're not through with the raggamuffin stuff yet man      Verse Three:      Akebulan is the original name   Of Africa now stripped of it's fame   It's good to note, that in ancient times   Egyptians developed all sciences of the mind   To the point where they ruled the planet   But Rome, Greece and Persia wasn't havin it   They attacked, and won the war   But it wasn't enough, they had to get to the core   Cause in that time it was Akebulan   That ruled religion, politics and man   In order to destroy the Egyptian race   They had to wipe the sciences, from off the face of the planet   So they proceeded to ban it   Then replace it with Christianity   And it's, been that way, all the way to today   Learn what we teach, hear what we say   But here comes the K-the-R-the-S-the-O-the-N-the-E   The BDP and we rhyme intelligently   Let me continue with Theodosyius   A Greek ruler not known to most of us   He in the fourth century A.D.   Calls the Egyptians fools you see   Two years later, Justinian rules   Six A.D., was it for schools   As a result, ignorance had swirled   Over Christian Europe and grateful Roman worlds   This went on for a thousand years   Of ignorance stupidity and tears   Now comes the seventeenth century hardness   Europe, began to come out of it's darkness   So J.F. Blumenbach, a German   Came out of nowhere and started confirming   White supremacy and men of colors   Before this time, all men were brothers   It was Johann, who went on to say   There are five different colors in the world today   That's caucasian, malayan, and mongolian   American-indian, and ethiopian   Yes, the ignorance gets scarier   He believed whites were superior   According to his idiotic fountain   The purest whites were from the Caucas mountains   J A Blofener, and H S Chamberlain   Both supported this outrageous racism   This went on to what the master race should be   And why they killed the Jews in Germany   Here is the reason why I'm so concerned   Because you, must, learn      We're not done, we're not done, we're not done   Check this out      Yeah yeah, the name of the new album of course   is Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip-Hop   Run out and get a copy at your nearest record store   Because Boogie Down Productions RULES!