Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song You Must Learn, artist - Boogie Down Productions. Date of issue: 03.07.1989
Song language: English
You Must Learn |
| 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 Elie Whitney, Holly Selosy, Grand Bill Woods |
| Made the walky-talky |
| Lewis Latterman 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 straightin' 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 |