| Information — can you buy it? |
| Can you sell it?
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| And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?
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| Just like History class when you’re in school
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| You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool
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| Ask the Native Americans, Mexicans, and Africans
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| The things you lost, would you rather get 'em back again?
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| I tried so hard to believe you
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| But we all know the things that Europeans do
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| Now what if the Asians, Africans, and Indians
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| Never taught you nothin', you would still be primitive
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| What we all need is self-education
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| That’s the only way to educate this nation
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| The good old USA
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| Built on lies from back in the days
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| Great Britain, France, and Spain got bold
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| Destroyed the New World lookin' for gold
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| Now, information — can you buy it? |
| Can you sell it?
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| And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?
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| Just like History class when you’re in school
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| You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool
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| I need some more info
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| I don’t really know what happened to my kinfolk
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| I know we built the nation with our bare hands
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| Helped you fight your wars just like the Indians
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| But when he tells you his story, we ain’t in it
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| Why you stealin' people’s lands? |
| You can’t admit it, can you?
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| Tell me why do you lie to little kids
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| With your one-sided stories? |
| Tell 'em what you did
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| Better yet, tell 'em what you didn’t do
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| It wasn’t brains, your gun was your pimpin', too
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| That’s how you mastered the slave trade
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| Shipped from overseas so you could stay paid
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| Divide and conquer, everywhere you go
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| But by the time we finish school, we barely know the real truth
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| Need to stop and take a serious look
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| Who wrote these government-issued history books?
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| Man, information — can you buy it? |
| Can you sell it?
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| And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?
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| Just like History class when you’re in school
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| You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool
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| The European couldn’t do it by himself, y’all
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| If the Indians wasn’t here, he woulda left, y’all
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| But instead, he gave 'em all his diseases
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| Tried to kill 'em, take the land and seize it
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| Move into the camps that the Natives built
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| Named cities and states but do they say who helped?
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| Hell nah, they say Lincoln freed the slaves
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| But we ain’t free yet, I still see them days
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| Racism ain’t goin' nowhere
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| Watch movies about the future, niggas ain’t there
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| Maybe one or two — what happened to the rest?
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| They tryin' to keep your self esteem low, it’s just a test
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| Every man had his own land before the European
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| I can’t believe what I’m seein'
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| That’s why your pride is on vacation
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| Brainwashed a whole nation with the wrong information
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| Can you buy it? |
| Can you sell it?
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| And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?
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| Just like History class when you’re in school
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| You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool
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| Information, bitch
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| Gotta get the right info, baby
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| (Gotta get it while the gettin' is good)
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| Fuck around, goin' around talkin' 'bout some stupid shit, bitch
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| (Dummy) |