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