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[00:00.33]What are you doing home from school so early?
[00:01.97]You shouldn't be back for another two hours
[00:04.47]Now answer me... what are you doing home?
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[00:08.19](I got suspended) Suspended? For what?
[00:11.02](Nothing) A good student like you, don't get suspended for nothing
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[00:16.02]Now why were you sent home? (Cuz I'm black!)
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[00:30.80]Bangin' on the lunchroom table, I used to spectate
[00:33.03]And watch some of the M.C. greats
[00:34.71]Throw verses back and forth, I didn't have the heart to step forth
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[00:38.33]I used to take it home to write some of my own
[00:40.74]But still I wasn't ready to touch the mic-phone
[00:43.64]The back staircases of school was filled with blunt residue
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[00:47.18]A broken lightbulb and the crew, a man or two
[00:49.89]Bangin' on the wall while a few M.C.'s, shoot the breeze
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[00:53.31]I'm just passin' through, I might've took two off the trees
[00:56.47]We fiend for this hip hop quarantine
[00:58.92]Listen out for the walkie talkies of the Dean (security coming...)
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[01:06.12]Bododo.. school!
[01:06.91]Sat in the back of the class with my hand up
[01:08.80]Two wild security guards, grabbed my man up
[01:10.74]Threw him in detention for 5 days suspension
[01:12.94]Cuz he said, the teacher was lyin about the Indians
[01:14.83]Tryin to dumb us with the story of Columbus
[01:16.83]And brain-numb us, when all you see, that came from us
[01:19.18]They copy-carvin, I learned about God and
[01:21.18]Taggin Wu logo on the book margin
[01:23.37]Intense like a New York riot, she stood quiet
[01:25.42]And asked me, could she speak to me in private
[01:28.50](Mr. Diggs, you actin' like a fool...) Huh?
[01:30.29](You know these rules that we have in these schools) Yeah..
[01:32.28](You and your friends think ya'll cool) Why?
[01:34.27](Cuz ya'll walk through these halls with the 12 jewels)
[01:36.68]Phat shoe laces and tri-colored sneakers
[01:38.15]I stood like a man then I questioned my teacher
[01:40.12]Why don't we speak about the wisdom of the sages?
[01:42.13]And how did Europe black out in the dark ages?
[01:44.22]And when they got light did they white-wash the pages?
[01:46.46]And the inquisition, why was Christian thrown in cages?
[01:48.57]And why wuld they try to destroy the nation?
[01:50.73]With their birth control and bring control floridation?
[01:52.88]And why it seems that half the school is racist?
[01:54.87]She said "Diggs, to the office!" We about faces..
[01:57.79]Handed my paper with the proper title
[01:59.18]Who wrote the holy Koran or Bible?
[02:01.12]Bein' that person with the scent ability
[02:03.36]Makes me responsible for the uncivil
[02:05.45]The next morning as I entered the building
[02:07.55]A cypher goin' on and the Gods is building
[02:09.64]My hot chocolate spillin', after 5th period
[02:11.84]Let's cut out, go bag some chicks up at Tilden
[02:13.98]Wonderful had the rental, "Nobody Beats the Biz"
[02:16.59]Instrumental, attractin' a few
[02:18.03]Nothin' really poppin', let's slide to Clara Barton
[02:20.24]Bumped into a few good brothers from Morgas Martin
[02:22.39]Mentioned Norman Thomas, had chicks
[02:24.51]That'll hit flicks, and take you shopping, true indeed
[02:26.65]I thought Sarah J. had the one that I need
[02:28.57]Mary Burtrum, Julia Richmond, is it fashion?
[02:30.64]Elijah Whitney sing the song with me
[02:33.01]Sisters from Washington Irv. swing a arm
[02:35.03]Brothers in death, pull the fire alarm
[02:36.98]Rude ones flow rapness, Western House money makers
[02:39.05]Maxwell thunder hip shakers..
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[02:53.20]They not on my level, but I can sit with the O.G.'s from there
[02:56.58]And make it major, youknowhatimean? (That's what's nigga)
[02:59.90]Right, but, we not doing that until we get this business settled
[03:01.67]And even while we doing that, we try'nna get the Wu-Tang niggaz
[03:03.99]Cuz I love them niggaz, I feel as though
[03:05.76]They represent the east coast, how we represent the west coast
[03:07.88]And I love them...
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