Run-d.m.c. - Heal Yourself Lyrics
(chorus:harmony)Heal yourself you got to heal yourself(kid capri talks)(big daddy kane)Mama said dont do crack and smoke you knowcause it will make your nose grow like pinnochioSince I was only 15 I had to listenTo what was said for my parent was a christianI went to school and saw all my friends do itBut I said no cause I dont want my nose to growThey started tripping on me, busting and flipping on meSo I had to front and say yo, true, stick it on meI started smoking to prove Im an adultNow its a habt but is it all my faultI wished my mother would have told me the truthcause now Im all based out, ma dukes(kid capri)Oh man I like the way thats going downNow why wont you do is kick a little freddie foxx(freddie foxxx)Everybody rise as I present to a jet black crowdWhat its like to be black and proudIn a world where white is right but not tonightThis is a black mans mightI heard a sister say she dont like darker shades of blackOn a man cause thats wackBut to my light skin sister cant you tellYoure just the surface of a dark deep wellAnd how can you prefer to be wit thoseThat sprayed you wit gun and hosesAnd never put roses on the gravesOf the slaves that they treated like dirtAfter all that hard work(kid capri)Clap your hands to the beat, cmon, just clap your hands to the beatFreak it now(ll cool j)One of the biggest lies you hear from no one elseIs when a girl tries to say she dont do it to herselfAlways fantasizing but steadily denyingLast night she had to stop cause her baby was cryingShe do it on the phone all alone wit a smileRun the water, grab the shower cap and get buckwhyledSoap suds on the floor, oh al b sureGive it to me, give it to me, give me a little moreIm fiending, creaming, screaming, dreaming (what else)The girls possess by the basehead demonChorus(mc lyte)In elementary, lyte had the jordache lookLike me and any other kid who cared about booksBut then I got wise and I begin to listenTo the wack teachers and the wick-wack systemMy mother put me in ?Which means black school in swahiliAnd there is where I learned black historyAnd how to be the best that I can beI went back and now the school is closedThere is nowhere for black youth to goTo be taught by brothers and sisters who knows what it meansTo be a black child or a white teenIn the end the youth is being mistreatedWhich means the world is being cheated(queen latifah)Dane was never taught her life was worth somethingBut when people dont try to improve it makes me want to hurt somethingYou want to be somebody and be a standoutBut got your handout, oh youre broke, I guess its off to your mans houseWhy is sisters giving up the ballToday it seems not to father you too hardThey call us squeezers and you prove it to the worstYou have to earn the right to say its ladies first(kid capri)Oh man this is human education against liesYou better know the flavor kid(krs-one)Human education against lies triesTo open the eyes of humanity before it diesBlack and white aint the real fightThats the only thing the media hypesThe real fight are these major corporationsHolding back on real educationBefore youre a color, first youre humanTeaching humanity is what were doing(kid capri)And just when you thought you knew everything there was to knowYou didnt know anything about this, tell em melodie(ms melodie)Daddys home everyday since he lost his jobHis new line of work is now beating up momMom is scared, she doesnt know what to doHer beautiful skin is now black and blueShe used to cry, now shes back in the penA human war between women and men(kid capri)Melodie, kid capri(jam master jay and dmc)Jam jay on the way, yoHuman education against liesTo all the girls and to all the guysGet paid, get it madeGet a good grade, live to a very old ageChecking out jet, no disrespectTo each and every member of the opposite sexesIs yes, listen to the messages and I send someWe never knew where the poison came fromYo, were rapping on h.e.a.l. so we thought we like to mentionAcquired immune defiency syndromeAids, were here to make you get wiseHuman education against lies(kid capri talks)
