You Must Learn — текст песни (Boogie Down Productions)

Just like I told you, you must learn

It`s calm yet wild the style that I speak
Just filled 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 dwellin` 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
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

Chorus: Just like I told you, you must learn (twice)

I believe that if you`re teaching history
Filled 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 Eli Whitney, Haile Selassie
Granville Woods made the walkie-talkie
Lewis Latimer improved on Edison
Charles Drew did a lot for medicine
Garrett Morgan made the traffic lights
Harriet Tubman freed the slaves at night
Madame CJ Walker made a straightenin comb
But you won`t know this is you weren`t shown
The point I`m gettin` at it it might be harsh
`Cause we`re just walkin` around brainwashed
So what I`m sayin` is not to diss a man
we need the 89 school system
One that caters to a Black return because
You must learn

Chorus