[Intro Skit: Class Teacher]

Quiet down class, qu-quiet down!

Mister Preston, take your seat please!

Miss Davenport cellphones turned off and put away!

Honestly people, my heavens!

Thank you! Now today' session we feature a very special guest

He comes to us all the way from Saint Louis, Missouri

His name is Prince Ea

Some of you young people might already be familiar with him

Mister Ea will be attempting a feat that is never yet been accomplished in the history of Hip Hop

A lyrical look into the 3 pounds organ between the ears and behind the eyes

The human brain

Now without further ado

Is it truly an honor to have him with us today

Please gives Mister Ea a warm welcome

[Verse 1: Prince Ea]

It's a puzzle, so subtle, I'm going to take it apart

Hemispherically divested of its extraneous parts

See encompassed inside of that cranial vault

Is the brain, the mainframe

And its expansion was due to the advancement of language and art

But before that, it was used to outsmart predators

Physically weak, yo, we had to be exceptional

We had to adapt, we had to make developments

Living on Mother Natures doorstep

In Africa them Savannahs was absolutely enormous

The carnivore threat had us stressed

Until them neurons started to fire like a Corvette

And Nature selected, and we evolved the more sophisticated cerebral cortex

This is the part for deep thought and consciousness

Them tiny little Hominids finally got cognitive

We started living in groups, developing tools

Co-operating and distributing food

It may not seem like much but for our species

The way of life changed and our image improved

The occipitals grew, the parietals and the temporal too

The frontal lobe damn near went through the roof

If you don’t know what these are let me explain them to you, let me explain

This is the brain

[Skit: Teacher]

Wow! That was amazing! I told you guys he was good

How do you talk so fast? That's, astounding!

Oh! Wha- Oh! There's more!? Oh, I'm sorry! Sorry, sorry!

[Verse 2: Prince Ea]

Now see the parietal lobe is the spacial awareness center

It prevents you from bumping into things, maintaining the body's position

Assessing the distance from objects

Along with keeping a composite of your self image

Now the occipital region is limited division

Perception like a projector for a motion picture

It’s simple, after you see an image its characteristics

Are transmitted to this area for recognition

Now the temporal is something different

Complex and extensive on both sides like peripherals

Derived from its Latin name lobus tempus, or lobus temporalis

Meaning pod in the temple of the head

Which makes perfect sense, because this is the area you access

When you’re remembering a prayer

Yeah, your memory and the auditory senses

Language, comprehension's also found in this dimension

Now, the frontal lobe runs the show

Comparatively the largest of frame

And no other part of the brain is coming close

The most evolved of all the faculties

Its main objective is to act as chief executive of the factory

Responsible for creative thinking, strategy

Decision making, motor functions and personality

The Da Vinci in the cranial cavity

But it's the connection to the lobes as a whole that truly makes the masterpiece

With this device there's nothing too challenging

Because if it can be conceived then it can be done

Look at our keystones, we went from primitive acting

All the way to splitting the atom and the sequencing the genome

From harnessing fire by Homo Erectus

To the limitless energy systems of Nikola Tesla

To the Sumerians creating the wheel

To German inventor, Karl Benz, making the first true automobile

All that we need is the chance and the tools

And we can do anything that we set our minds to

It was flight, the one thing they said Man couldn't do

Until the Wright Brothers came with the plans they drew

Of course leave it up to man to go further and greater

Only 30 years later we had a man on the moon

Examine the examples of proof of Man's intelligence

The advances made in medicine have been exceptional

We've saved and extended many lives

Cause human beings were only supposed to live to age 55

Naturally, but now we go past that

See, limitations have always been something that we laughed at

But don't brag cause there's trouble next door

And our species has always held that double-edged sword

The more time that passed, we struggled to find out path

And for every good accomplishment is a counterpart twice as bad

[Verse 3: Prince Ea]

We lose touch living life so fast

And exhibit behavior that can be defined as a psychopath

As we advance we lose the basics, we still divide people into races

And don't realize superiority by pigmentation

Is nothing more than a figment of all our imaginations

Look at the "science" of eugenics, one of the worst crimes to be committed

Systematically sterilizing people for half a century

Throwing them into ghettos and calling that "Survival of the Fittest"

How smart is the man that's blinded by conviction?

We don't understand certain laws are intrinsic

Rationalize genocide away and defend it

And naturalize the objectification of women and their subservient position

See, the brain is a prison, home to many mal dispositions

From imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, McDonalization and hedonism;

Pedophilia, greed, the need to pillage and coerced by religion

That keep people submissive

The way we live is parasitic and intrusive, environmentally abusive

To the point that the only thing we really produce is pollution

It's been happening for so long we don't see a solution

But there is one, if we act quickly

We don't have to be trapped by our past history

We can change it, rearrange it cause the brain is endowed

With a funny thing called plasticity

Which means the brain is plastic

And we can mold it and shape it in whichever way that we imagine

We can build a utopian palace

Or it can be the reason our entire species collapses

Look, it's up to us what our future holds

We've got to stop abusing our homes

Let's stop overruling that Golden Rule for the Rule of Gold

Let's take our minds out of cruise control

Man, let's stop snoozing, let's stop feuding

See that we are brothers and let's make truces

See, it was written in our blueprint

You can't spell evolve without love so stop being foolish

Let's take a lesson from our children

And see the beauty that every Human Being is imbued with

And maybe one day in our future

We can replace the violence with violins and music

It's not too late, let's do this

Let's develop our minds, let's not lose them

The Brain