Ya Know (A Duo)

By Motu & Tre'Shawn

The school board needs to get defeat
Ya know
Trynna move Rainer Beach down the street
Ya know
They’re trynna make music with two different beats
Ya know
It’s not making love, it’s academic rape in the sheets
Ya know

You trynna move the southend to the west,
Ya know
But you can’t put different tribes together with different colors on they chest,
Ya know
They’re not settling for more, they’re purposefully giving us less
Ya know
They’re pimping out the students and taking off the dress
Ya know

Whatcha trynna do, create mass destruction?
Ya know
Making this move our class rooms wouldn’t function.
Ya know
I think of a simpler time, colorful blocks for construction
Ya know
But age makes them grow cold, refusing my proposed conjunction
Ya know

Man, they don’t care about you and me.

They want to tell us to work hard and not offer anything new
Ya know
They say our problems would change, all I’ve seen is a school board that’s grew
Ya know
Dang, in this situation I don’t think were gonna win, we’re ‘bout to lose.
Ya know
Yo man, do you think there’ll be some shootings?
Yeah, maybe a couple....     nahh, way more than a few.
Ya know
The problem is: the problem.  Noone really knows, ‘cause noone really cares to listen
Ya know
The power to let this voice be heard, that’s our only mission
Ya know
I wouldn’t blame the schools if their fish start to go missin’
Ya know
But I would blame the school board if all them kids end up in prison
Ya know

Ya know what they’ll be like, oh you wrote a rap
Ya know
So it doesn’t matter what we say its how we said it aint that some bull-crap
Ya know

If we want to win this battle were going to need a lot of intimidation.
Ya know
Put your hood face on, they can’t beat combined determination.
Ya know

Middle with the High, a set of misguided expectations
Ya know
Save a couple bucks, but shouldn’t we celebrate when the students have delectation?
Ya know
Hey man, don’t this make you mad?
This shit pisses me off!
Don’t this make you sad?
My heart weeps ‘cause my peeps are being broken soft
Ya know

The education system should listen ‘cause what we say will stop the fission
& start the fusion
They can give us some hope instead of forcing facades most don’t know are illusions
Conclusion:  we should have the freedom to do what we want in this society
But instead we’re being pushed in a loop
That’s only gaining notoriety
We
could
go
on
and
tell
ya’ll
what
we
see

but

Man, they don’t care about you and me!