[Verse 1: Akala]

Gordon Bennett!

I'm flabbergasted

Smart Bastard

Why don’t he play his role and just act retarded

'cause when you’re born single parent poor thats your place

Don’t read too many books, sag your jeans screw your face

Chat shit

Act thick

Practice

Your backflips

Put your motherfucking arse out for the cameras

Providing entertainment for your cultural betters

Men of letters think we can only be good if they let us, 'cause

Knowledge ain't for punks, they market it like it is

Cos who the fuck wants to be Carlton from fresh prince

But geeks designed the system devisions of politicians

Marthis, and the smiths were livin' in their vison

So, knowledge is power

For devouring cowards that shower'd you

With propaganda each and every hour that’s why

Malcolm never died as, just another tug on the road

A symbol over the globe

'cause did you know?

[Hook: Akala]

The most rebellious thing you can do is get educated

Forget what they told you in school, get educated

I ain't sayin' play by the rules, get educated

Get educated

Get educated

Get educated

Break the chains of their enslavement, get educated

Even if you're on the pavement, get educated

What a weapon that your brain is, get educated

Get educated

Get educated

[Verse 2: Akala]

We speak of power

When we speak of education

Free your body, free your mind

What you think Toussaint did?

Planned rebellion, that’s the way to use your brain kid

That’s the only way we're gonna make it outta this matrix but

Gotta know the basics

We can look around say that we hate it but

But how do we change it

Or rearrange it, all to replace it

Gotta step into the mind that designed ya

What do you reckon when you step into the fire

What are you reppin' is it definitely bias

Severing your effort in the ways they require?

Act like you're lesser than better

Severing endeavors is clever

I know a bag of youths that act like they ain't clever

Cause it's become fashionable to say we all clap a tool

Never symbols of the state, only those that look like you

So whose job are we doin', pursuin' our ruin

The riddle ain't very hard, brother you fill the clue in

So when we clappin' our tools and play the fool

We ain't breakin' the rules, it ain't very cool, you know what to do

[Hook]

Forget what they told you in school, get educated

I ain't sayin' play by the rules, get educated

Get educated

Get educated

Get educated

Break the chains of their enslavement, get educated

Even if you're on the pavement, get educated

What a weapon that your brain is, get educated

Get educated

Get educated

[Verse 3: Akala]

So you want to hide something from Blacks

Then you should put it in a book

Still some brothers won't even look, it's like they shook

Its not just us, dumber you act the more they promote it

'cause dumb people will not rebel, sure you know this

Yo, look at the dreams that they feed to our babies, your seeds

Look at the means that they tell us you make all the P's

Dumb celebrities say girls act like you're me

If you suck dick and film it, get a show on TV

Because we don't want too many women thinkin' like bell hooks

We want a bag of hookers that bend over and just cook

Our silicone addressers do anything to impress us

Of course a woman's life is lived just for the fellas

Much as the next man, I love a woman that's shaped up

But there's nothing more unattractive than a woman that play dumb

But the ego with a reason to see you

Lesser than equal to be you

But wanna keep you

At all the bullshit that we do deceitful

And we're evil

I wouldn't want to be you

Putting up with our bullshit, and I mean me too

The anger burns inside of me, violently, it's dividing me

One moment I'm cool, the next I think that you're tryin' me

'cause of course I believe in peace, theoretically, generally

But if you love something then you got to defend it, see

Not tellin' you be a coward, no coward could be a friend to me

You should know your enemy, cut the head of a centipede

But know the one whose head needs to get severed

For the one who just lives it cos they just don't really know no better

The yout across the block ain't your enemy brother

And if you really knew the truth you'd be defending each other

[Hook]

Forget what they told you in school, get educated

I ain't sayin' play by the rules, get educated

Get educated

Get educated

Get educated

Break the chains of their enslavement, get educated

Even if you're on the pavement, get educated

What a weapon that your brain is, get educated

Get educated

Get educated