Текст песни Boogie Down Productions - You Must Learn 12"
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My man D-Nice, D-Nice is in the boothWorkin harder than everD-Nice is rockin the sound set tonightWe`re not through, I wanna drop a new styleVerse One:It`s calm yet wild the style that I speakJust deal with facts and you will never get weak in the heart In fact you`ll start to illuminateKnowledge to others in a song let me demonstratethe force of knowledge, knowledge reigned supremeThe ignorant is ripped to smithereensWhat do you mean when you say I`m rebelliousCause I don`t accept everything that you`re telling usWhat are you selling us the creator dwell in usI sit in your unknown class while you`re failing usI failed your class cause I ain`t with your reasoningYou`re tryin make me you by seasoningUp my mind with see Jane runSee John walk in a hardcore New YorkCome on now, that`s like a chocolate cowIt doesn`t exist no way, no howIt seems to me that in a school that`s ebonyAfrican history should be pumped up steadily, but it`s notand this has got to stopSee Spot run, run get SpotInsulting to a Black mentalityA Black way of life or a jet Black familySo I include with one concern, thatYou must learn (Yo Kris) What?Hold up D, hold up DWe 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 historyDeal with straight up facts no mysteryTeach the student what needs to be taughtCause Black and White kids both take shortsWhen one doesn`t know about the other ones` cultureIgnorance swoops down like a vultureCause you don`t know that you ain`t just a janitorNo one told you about Benjamin BannekerA brilliant Black man that invented the almanacCan`t you see where KRS is coming atWith Elie Whitney, Haile SelassieGranville Woods made the walkie talkieLewis Lattimer improved on EdisonCharles Drew did a lot for medicineGarrett Morgan made the traffic lightsHarriett Tubman freed the slaves at nightMadame CJ Walker made a straightin combBut you won`t know this is you weren`t shownThe point I`m gettin at it it might be harshIs we`re just walkin` around brainwashedSo what I`m sayin is not to diss em manWe need the 89 school systemOne that caters to a Black fratern becauseYou must learn Whattup cameraman? Let me here you say hoooo!!!!We`re not through with the ragga stuffWe`re not through with the raggamuffin stuff yet manVerse Three:Akebulan is the original nameOf Africa now stripped of it`s fameIt`s good to note, that in ancient timesEgyptians developed all sciences of the mindTo the point where they ruled the planetBut Rome, Greece and Persia wasn`t havin itThey attacked, and won the warBut it wasn`t enough, they had to get to the coreCause in that time it was AkebulanThat ruled religion, politics and manIn order to destroy the Egyptian raceThey had to wipe the sciences, from off the face of the planetSo they proceeded to ban itThen replace it with ChristianityAnd it`s, been that way, all the way to todayLearn what we teach, hear what we sayBut here comes the K-the-R-the-S-the-O-the-N-the-EThe BDP and we rhyme intelligentlyLet me continue with TheodosyiusA Greek ruler not known to most of usHe in the fourth century A.D.Calls the Egyptians fools you seeTwo years later, Justinian rulesSix A.D., was it for schools