Released on June 19, 2001

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[Chorus: Eminem]

I don't wanna go to school (School)

I don't need no education ('Cation)

(We don't need no education)

I don't wanna be like you (You)

I don't wanna save the nation (Daddy, no)

I just wanna live my life (Life)

Every day a celebration ('Bration)

(We don't need no thought control)

One day, I'ma leave this world (World)

I'm waiting for the revelation (Revelation)


[Verse 1: Bizarre]

(I wanna kill myself) I'm still debating

In front of a Baptist church, masturbating, praying to Satan (Uh, uh!)

Think I'm crazy 'cause I smoke crack

Live on B with the mac in a two-family flat (Fuck it)

Tired of getting hit in the face with a broom

My mom's on her period, my dad's in my room (Daddy, no)

I got ten rocks and I need to get out

I sold them in five minutes at my own damn house (Moms smoke crack)

My poor grandmother, God bless her soul

The bitch got AIDS (Aww), she just waiting to die of a cold (Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha)

There's three things that keep me from being a Nazi:

I'm black, a fag, and my dad's Liberace

[Verse 2: Kon Artis & Eminem]

No matter how bad the beating, I went to school, cheating (No!)

My dad whooped my ass at a PTA meeting (No!)

Skipping school, I had to have nuts just to do it

Got bored and became truant

When I had the gall to go, I just couldn't do it

I was lured into corners by this peer pressure shit

How would you feel if you was held by the tip of a barrel

Getting threatened to get your skin ripped to bone marrow?

Bet suburban kids never got rushed for their apparel

Like me, outcast, last to class

First to leave, when the teacher called on me

Best believe I had something up my sleeve


[Verse 3: Eminem]

I've been praised and labeled as crazed

My mother was unable to raise me, full of crazy rage

An angry teenager, nothing can change me back

Gangsta rap made me act like a maniac

I was boosting, so influenced by music, I used it

As an excuse to do shit, ooh, I was stupid

No one can tell me nothing, hip-hop overwhelmed me

To the point where it had me in a whole 'nother realm

It was like isolating myself was healthy

It felt like we was on welfare but wealthy

Compelled me to excel when school had failed me

Expelled me, and when the principal would tell me

I was nothing, and I wouldn't amount to shit

I made my first million and counted it

Now look at a fucking drop-out that quit (Ha)

Stupid as shit, rich as fuck, and proud of it, that's why


[Chorus: Eminem]

I don't wanna go to school (School)

I don't need no education ('Cation)

(We don't need no education)

I don't wanna be like you (You)

I don't wanna save the nation (Daddy, no)

I just wanna live my life (Life)

Every day a celebration ('Bration)

(We don't need no thought control)

One day, I'ma leave this world (World)

I'm waiting for the revelation (Revelation)

[Verse 4: Swifty McVay & Kuniva]

I was raised with a rifle and mask

Steadily beating my psychiatrist's ass just for asking about my past (Bitch)

I was never on that punk shit; fucking around can get

Your beloved abducted, smothered in blood quick (Bow! Bow! Bow! Bow!)

You couldn't pay Swift to give a fuck

Was crazy like my father, it must've been poison in that nigga's nut

Far as probation, fuck peeing in cups

I violate at any time, let 'em see the blunt

I grew up, steadily masturbating inside of cells (Uh-huh)

Young as hell, having conversations with myself (What?)

You could tell I wasn't lenient, a disobedient

Lynched, I slapped teachers, bitch, I'm not reading it

You don't know what dogs go through, a little nigga

Sipping liquor with my old dude, what the fuck you gon' do? (Ha)

I'm quick to curse you, I told my mother that I'ma hurt you

If you ever again mention that curfew (Look)


[Verse 5: Kuniva]

See, my family ignores me and I don't like that

They don't even listen when I tell 'em, "I'll be right back" ("Yeah, whatever")

This nice beautiful house, ma, it don't mean shit

'Cause you know daddy's a drunk and he don't clean shit

And yesterday he hit me like a grown fucking man

I couldn't stand up to him, I just ducked and ran

I'm sick of this, I wish on Christmas (Uh-huh)

That I can get a loaded four-fifth and put a fucking end to this (Fuck it)

I got no friends and I can't get a bitch

Only thing I have is dirty magazines and sticky fingertips (Uh)

Nothing to smile about, I'm about to lose my mind

Got me an automatic .9, now I'm wilding out

[Verse 6: Proof, Eminem, Proof & Eminem]

What is school for? A pupil want people to shoot through

Kids going cuckoo with a 2-2

Since my friend is this new dude in this high school

Losing his noodle, learn that people don't like you

The football jocks is spitting on him ("Stop")

Popular kids in school is now picking on him

Burn out youngster niggas now hitting on him

And his teacher in his english class keep flipping on him

And now he's grounded with no allowances

For drinking forty ounces 'cause he was caught by his counselors ("Teacher")

And why the fuck I gotta ride the bench, coach?

Already got expelled for wearing a trench coat

All I ever seen is violence, violence

Told me to keep silent, stop battin' my eyelids

It's apparent that my parents weren't parents at all

That's why I blow out my brains and slaughter you all (Fuck you)


[Chorus: Eminem]

I don't wanna go to school (School)

I don't need no education ('Cation)

(We don't need no education)

I don't wanna be like you (You)

I don't wanna save the nation (Daddy, no)

I just wanna live my life (Life)

Every day a celebration ('Bration)

(We don't need no thought control)

One day, I'ma leave this world (World)

I'm waiting for the revelation (Revelation)


[Outro: Eminem]

(Oh, oh yeah)

(Oh, oh yeah)

"If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding?"

"How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"

"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding"

"You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat"