Why is that? 创作者：
Boogie Down Productions

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调：G# minor

Intro 1

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The day begins with a grin

And a prayer to excuse my sins

I can walk anywhere I choose

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'Cause everybody listens

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to the B.D.P. crew
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We're not here for glamor or fashion
But here's the question I'm askin'
Why is it young black kids
taught black?
They're only taught how to read,

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write and act
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It's like teachin' a dog
to be a cat
You don't teach white kids to be black
Why is that? Is it because
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we're the minority?
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Well, black kids follow me

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Genesis chapter eleven verse ten
Explains the genealogy of Shem
Chem was a black man in Africa
If you repeat this fact they
can't laugh at ya

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Genesis fourteen verse thirteen

Abraham steps on the scene

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Being a descendant of Shem

which is a fact

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Means, Abraham too was black
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Abraham born in the city of a black man
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Called Nimrod, grandson of Kam
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Kam   had four sons,
one was named Canaan

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Here, let me do some explaining
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Abraham was the father of Isaac
Isaac was the father of Jacob
Jacob had twelve sons for real
And these were the children
of Israel

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According to Genesis chapter ten
Egyptians descended from Ham
Six hundred years later
my brother read up
Moses was born in Egypt

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In this era black Egyptians weren't right
They enslaved black Israelites
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Moses had to be of  the black race
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Because he spent forty years
in Pharaoh's place

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He passed as the Pharaoh's grandson
So he had to look just like him
Yes, my brothers and sisters
take this here song
Yo, correct the wrong

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The information we get

today is just wack

But ask yourself, why is that?

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The age of the ignorant
rapper is done
Knowledge reigns supreme
over nearly everyone
The stereotype must be lost

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That love and peace and knowledge is soft

Do away with that and understand one fact

For love, peace must attack

And attack real strong, stronger than war

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To conquer it and its law
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Mental pictures,
stereotypes and fake history
Reinforces mystery
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And   when mystery is reinforced
That only means that
knowledge has been lost

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When you know who you really are
Peace and knowledge
shines like a star
I've only shown you a simple fact
It takes a nation of millions to
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hold us people back

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Which is wack but we can correct that
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Teach and learn what it is
to be black
'Cause they're teachin'
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birds to be a cat
But ask yourself homeboy, why is that?