Heal Yourself

(chorus:harmony)

Heal yourself you got to heal yourself

(kid capri talks)

(big daddy kane)

Mama said don't do crack and smoke you know

'cause it will make your nose grow like pinnochio

Since i was only 15 i had to listen

To what was said for my parent was a christian

I went to school and saw all my friends do it

But i said no 'cause i don't want my nose to grow

They started tripping on me, busting and flipping on me

So i had to front and say yo, true, stick it on me

I started smoking to prove i'm an adult

Now it's a habt but is it all my fault

I wished my mother would have told me the truth

'cause now i'm all based out, ma dukes

(kid capri)

Oh man i like the way that's going down

Now why won't you do is kick a little freddie foxx

(freddie foxxx)

Everybody rise as i present to a jet black crowd

What it's like to be black and proud

In a world where white is right but not tonight

This is a black man's might

I heard a sister say she don't like darker shades of black

On a man 'cause that's wack

But to my light skin sister can't you tell

You're just the surface of a dark deep well

And how can you prefer to be wit those

That sprayed you wit gun and hoses

And never put roses on the graves

Of the slaves that they treated like dirt

After all that hard work

(kid capri)

Clap your hands to the beat, c'mon, just clap your hands to the beat

Freak it now

(ll cool j)

One of the biggest lies you hear from no one else

Is when a girl tries to say she don't do it to herself

Always fantasizing but steadily denying

Last night she had to stop 'cause her baby was crying

She do it on the phone all alone wit a smile

Run the water, grab the shower cap and get buckwhyled

Soap suds on the floor, oh al b sure

Give it to me, give it to me, give me a little more

I'm fiending, creaming, screaming, dreaming (what else)

The girl's possess by the basehead demon

Chorus

(mc lyte)

In elementary, lyte had the jordache look

Like me and any other kid who cared about books

But then i got wise and i begin to listen

To the wack teachers and the wick-wack system

My mother put me in ?

Which means black school in swahili

And there is where i learned black history

And how to be the best that i can be

I went back and now the school is closed

There is nowhere for black youth to go

To be taught by brothers and sisters who knows what it means

To be a black child or a white teen

In the end the youth is being mistreated

Which means the world is being cheated

(queen latifah)

Dane was never taught her life was worth something

But when people don't try to improve it makes me want to hurt something

You want to be somebody and be a standout

But got your handout, oh you're broke, i guess it's off to your man's house

Why is sister's giving up the ball

Today it seems not to father you too hard

They call us squeezers and you prove it to the worst

You have to earn the right to say it's ladies first

(kid capri)

Oh man this is human education against lies

You better know the flavor kid

(krs-one)

Human education against lies tries

To open the eyes of humanity before it dies

Black and white ain't the real fight

That's the only thing the media hypes

The real fight are these major corporations

Holding back on real education

Before you're a color, first you're human

Teaching humanity is what we're doing

(kid capri)

And just when you thought you knew everything there was to know

You didn't know anything about this, tell 'em melodie

(ms melodie)

Daddy's home everyday since he lost his job

His new line of work is now beating up mom

Mom is scared, she doesn't know what to do

Her beautiful skin is now black and blue

She used to cry, now she's back in the pen

A human war between women and men

(kid capri)

Melodie, kid capri

(jam master jay and dmc)

Jam jay on the way, yo

Human education against lies

To all the girls and to all the guys

Get paid, get it made

Get a good grade, live to a very old age

Checking out jet, no disrespect

To each and every member of the opposite sexes

Is yes, listen to the messages and i send some

We never knew where the poison came from

Yo, we're rapping on h.e.a.l. so we thought we like to mention

Acquired immune defiency syndrome

Aids, we're here to make you get wise

Human education against lies

(kid capri talks)