Chords for Boogie Down Productions - You Must Learn (Official Video)
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111.75 bpm
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Eb
G
Ebm
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Genesis chapter 11 verse 10 explains the genealogy of Shem.
Shem was a black man
in Africa.
If you repeat this fact they can't laugh at you.
[G] [Gb]
[N]
[Ab]
[C] He [N] was a man of faith, a man of love, a man of justice, a man of love, a man of [F] justice.
He was a man of faith, a man of love, [Eb] a man of justice.
He was [F] a man of faith, [D] a man of love, a man of justice.
He was a man of faith, [Db] [G] a man of love, a man of justice.
What do you mean when you say I'm [E] rebellious?
Cause I don't [C] accept everything that [A] you're telling us?
What are [F] you selling us?
The creator dwelling us?
I sit in your unknown [G] class while you're failing us.
I failed [Eb] to top this idea with your weakness.
You're trying to make [F] me you by ceasing it.
Off [Eb] my mind with C.J. [F] Rook.
C.
John Rook in a hard corner, bro.
Come [Eb] on now, let's like a [F] public cow.
It doesn't exist, [E] no way, no how.
[F] It seems to me that in a school this ebony, [Db] African history should be pumped up steadily but it's not.
And it's got [F] to stop.
C.
Spock run, run, get Spock.
Insulting to a black mentality, a black way of life for a jet black family.
So I [Eb] include with one [F] concern that you must learn [Eb] to threaten.
[Db] Hold [N] up please, hold up please.
We're going to see if they're really ready for this.
Are y'all having fun tonight?
I said are y'all having fun tonight?
I believe that if you're teaching history, deal with straight upper backs, no [F] mystery.
Teach the student what needs to be taught.
Because black and white kids both take shorts.
When one doesn't know about the other's culture.
Ignorance swoops down like a folklorist.
Because you don't know that you ain't just a canada.
You know when you talk about Ventress Battega, a brilliant black man that invented the almanac.
Can't you see where KRS is coming at?
With Eli Whitney, Bobby Solasi, Granville Woods, Megan Walker, Tawky,
Bewis Slatterman improved on Edison, Charles Drew did a lot for medicine,
Garrett [Eb] Morgan made the traffic [F] lights, Harriet Tubman for the slave night,
[Bb] Madame C.J. Walker made the statement [Eb] code.
But you won't know this [F] if you won't show.
The point I'm getting at, it might be hard, is we're just walking around brainwashed.
See what I'm saying?
It's not to diss a man.
We need the 89 school system.
One black teacher to a black return.
Because you must [G] learn.
[Ebm] What up, cameraman?
[F] Let me hear you say ho!
[Eb]
[F] We're not through with the ragga stuff.
We're [Eb] not through with the [F] ragga muffin stuff yet, man.
[Bb] Akumu-Lan is the original [F] name of Africa, now stripped of its fame.
It's good to [Ebm] know that in ancient times, Egyptians developed all sciences of the mind.
To the point where they ruled the planet.
But Rome, Greece, and Persia wasn't having it.
They attacked and won the war.
But it wasn't enough.
They had to get to [A] the core.
Because in that [F] common was Akumu-Lan.
That moved religion, politics, and man.
In order to destroy the Egyptian race, who had the right for sciences.
From off the face of the planet.
So they proceeded to ban it and replace it with Christianity.
As it's been that way.
So we teach today.
Learn what we teach.
Hear what we say.
But here comes the king of all the S to O, the N to E, the B, D, P.
And we [G] rhyme intelligently.
Let me [Ebm] continue with [F] Theodosius.
A Greek ruler not known to most of us.
He, in the 4th century AD, closed the Egyptian schools to see.
Two years later, Justinian rules.
6 AD was it for schools.
[Ebm] As a result, ignorance had [F] swirled over Christian Europe and great Roman world.
This went [Eb] on for a thousand [Db] years of ignorance, [F] stupidity, and tears.
Now comes the 17th century hardness.
Europe began to come out of its darkness.
Some Johann [Eb] F.
Blumenbacher, German, came out of nowhere and started confirming.
White [Eb] supremacy and men of [N] colors.
Before this time, all men were brothers.
It was Johann who went on to say,
There are five different colors in the world today.
Black, Caucasian, Malayan, and Mongolian.
American, Indian, and Ethiopian.
Yet, [Ebm] the ignorance gets [F] scarier.
He believed whites were superior.
According to his idiotic fountain,
The purest whites were from the Caucasus mountains.
J.A. [N] Gouverneur and H.S. Chamberlain both supported this outrageous racism.
This went on to what the mass erasure be.
And why they killed the Jews in Germany.
Here is the reason why I'm so concerned.
Because you [C] must [Bb] learn.
[F]
We're not done.
[E] We're not done.
[F]
[C] Check this out.
[Bb] [Eb] [F] [G]
[N]
Shem was a black man
in Africa.
If you repeat this fact they can't laugh at you.
[G] [Gb]
[N]
[Ab]
[C] He [N] was a man of faith, a man of love, a man of justice, a man of love, a man of [F] justice.
He was a man of faith, a man of love, [Eb] a man of justice.
He was [F] a man of faith, [D] a man of love, a man of justice.
He was a man of faith, [Db] [G] a man of love, a man of justice.
What do you mean when you say I'm [E] rebellious?
Cause I don't [C] accept everything that [A] you're telling us?
What are [F] you selling us?
The creator dwelling us?
I sit in your unknown [G] class while you're failing us.
I failed [Eb] to top this idea with your weakness.
You're trying to make [F] me you by ceasing it.
Off [Eb] my mind with C.J. [F] Rook.
C.
John Rook in a hard corner, bro.
Come [Eb] on now, let's like a [F] public cow.
It doesn't exist, [E] no way, no how.
[F] It seems to me that in a school this ebony, [Db] African history should be pumped up steadily but it's not.
And it's got [F] to stop.
C.
Spock run, run, get Spock.
Insulting to a black mentality, a black way of life for a jet black family.
So I [Eb] include with one [F] concern that you must learn [Eb] to threaten.
[Db] Hold [N] up please, hold up please.
We're going to see if they're really ready for this.
Are y'all having fun tonight?
I said are y'all having fun tonight?
I believe that if you're teaching history, deal with straight upper backs, no [F] mystery.
Teach the student what needs to be taught.
Because black and white kids both take shorts.
When one doesn't know about the other's culture.
Ignorance swoops down like a folklorist.
Because you don't know that you ain't just a canada.
You know when you talk about Ventress Battega, a brilliant black man that invented the almanac.
Can't you see where KRS is coming at?
With Eli Whitney, Bobby Solasi, Granville Woods, Megan Walker, Tawky,
Bewis Slatterman improved on Edison, Charles Drew did a lot for medicine,
Garrett [Eb] Morgan made the traffic [F] lights, Harriet Tubman for the slave night,
[Bb] Madame C.J. Walker made the statement [Eb] code.
But you won't know this [F] if you won't show.
The point I'm getting at, it might be hard, is we're just walking around brainwashed.
See what I'm saying?
It's not to diss a man.
We need the 89 school system.
One black teacher to a black return.
Because you must [G] learn.
[Ebm] What up, cameraman?
[F] Let me hear you say ho!
[Eb]
[F] We're not through with the ragga stuff.
We're [Eb] not through with the [F] ragga muffin stuff yet, man.
[Bb] Akumu-Lan is the original [F] name of Africa, now stripped of its fame.
It's good to [Ebm] know that in ancient times, Egyptians developed all sciences of the mind.
To the point where they ruled the planet.
But Rome, Greece, and Persia wasn't having it.
They attacked and won the war.
But it wasn't enough.
They had to get to [A] the core.
Because in that [F] common was Akumu-Lan.
That moved religion, politics, and man.
In order to destroy the Egyptian race, who had the right for sciences.
From off the face of the planet.
So they proceeded to ban it and replace it with Christianity.
As it's been that way.
So we teach today.
Learn what we teach.
Hear what we say.
But here comes the king of all the S to O, the N to E, the B, D, P.
And we [G] rhyme intelligently.
Let me [Ebm] continue with [F] Theodosius.
A Greek ruler not known to most of us.
He, in the 4th century AD, closed the Egyptian schools to see.
Two years later, Justinian rules.
6 AD was it for schools.
[Ebm] As a result, ignorance had [F] swirled over Christian Europe and great Roman world.
This went [Eb] on for a thousand [Db] years of ignorance, [F] stupidity, and tears.
Now comes the 17th century hardness.
Europe began to come out of its darkness.
Some Johann [Eb] F.
Blumenbacher, German, came out of nowhere and started confirming.
White [Eb] supremacy and men of [N] colors.
Before this time, all men were brothers.
It was Johann who went on to say,
There are five different colors in the world today.
Black, Caucasian, Malayan, and Mongolian.
American, Indian, and Ethiopian.
Yet, [Ebm] the ignorance gets [F] scarier.
He believed whites were superior.
According to his idiotic fountain,
The purest whites were from the Caucasus mountains.
J.A. [N] Gouverneur and H.S. Chamberlain both supported this outrageous racism.
This went on to what the mass erasure be.
And why they killed the Jews in Germany.
Here is the reason why I'm so concerned.
Because you [C] must [Bb] learn.
[F]
We're not done.
[E] We're not done.
[F]
[C] Check this out.
[Bb] [Eb] [F] [G]
[N]
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Eb
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Ebm
C
F
Eb
G
_ _ Genesis chapter 11 verse 10 _ explains the genealogy of Shem.
Shem was a black man
in Africa.
If you repeat this fact they can't laugh at you.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] He [N] was a man of faith, a man of love, a man of justice, a man of love, a man of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] justice.
_ _ _ He was a man of faith, _ _ _ _ _ a man of love, [Eb] a man of justice.
He was [F] _ a man of faith, [D] a man of love, _ a man of justice.
He was a man of faith, [Db] _ [G] a man of love, a man of justice.
What do you mean when you say I'm [E] rebellious?
Cause I don't [C] accept everything that [A] you're telling us?
What are [F] you selling us?
The creator dwelling us?
I sit in your unknown [G] class while you're failing us.
I failed [Eb] to top this idea with your weakness.
You're trying to make [F] me you by ceasing it.
Off [Eb] my mind with C.J. [F] Rook.
C.
John Rook in a hard corner, bro.
Come [Eb] on now, let's like a [F] public cow.
It doesn't exist, [E] no way, no how.
[F] It seems to me that in a school this ebony, [Db] African history should be pumped up steadily but it's not.
And it's got [F] to stop.
C.
Spock run, run, get Spock.
Insulting to a black mentality, a black way of life for a jet black family.
So I [Eb] include with one [F] concern that you must learn [Eb] to threaten.
_ [Db] Hold [N] up please, hold up please.
We're going to see if they're really ready for this.
Are y'all having fun tonight?
_ _ _ _ I said are y'all having fun tonight?
I _ believe that if you're teaching history, deal with straight upper backs, no [F] mystery.
Teach the student what needs to be taught.
Because black and white kids both take shorts.
When one doesn't know about the other's culture.
Ignorance swoops down like a folklorist.
Because you don't know that you ain't just a canada.
You know when you talk about Ventress Battega, a brilliant black man that invented the almanac.
Can't you see where KRS is coming at?
With Eli Whitney, Bobby Solasi, Granville Woods, Megan Walker, Tawky,
Bewis Slatterman improved on Edison, Charles Drew did a lot for medicine,
Garrett [Eb] Morgan made the traffic [F] lights, Harriet Tubman for the slave night,
[Bb] Madame C.J. Walker made the statement [Eb] code.
But you won't know this [F] if you won't show.
The point I'm getting at, it might be hard, is we're just walking around brainwashed.
See what I'm saying?
It's not to diss a man.
We need the 89 school system.
One black teacher to a black return.
Because you must [G] learn.
[Ebm] What up, cameraman?
[F] Let me hear you say ho!
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [F] We're not through with the ragga stuff.
We're [Eb] not through with the [F] ragga muffin stuff yet, man. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Akumu-Lan is the original [F] name of Africa, now stripped of its fame.
It's good to [Ebm] know that in ancient times, Egyptians developed all sciences of the mind.
To the point where they ruled the planet.
But Rome, Greece, and Persia wasn't having it.
They attacked and won the war.
But it wasn't enough.
They had to get to [A] the core.
Because in that [F] common was Akumu-Lan.
That moved religion, politics, and man.
In order to destroy the Egyptian race, who had the right for sciences.
From off the face of the planet.
So they proceeded to ban it and replace it with Christianity.
As it's been that way.
So we teach today.
Learn what we teach.
Hear what we say.
But here comes the king of all the S to O, the N to E, the B, D, P.
And we [G] rhyme intelligently.
Let me [Ebm] continue with [F] Theodosius.
A Greek ruler not known to most of us.
He, in the 4th century AD, closed the Egyptian schools to see.
Two years later, Justinian rules.
6 AD was it for schools.
[Ebm] As a result, ignorance had [F] swirled over Christian Europe and great Roman world.
This went [Eb] on for a thousand [Db] years of ignorance, [F] stupidity, and tears.
Now comes the 17th century hardness.
Europe began to come out of its darkness.
Some Johann [Eb] F.
Blumenbacher, German, came out of nowhere and started confirming.
White [Eb] supremacy and men of [N] colors.
Before this time, all men were brothers.
It was Johann who went on to say,
There are five different colors in the world today.
Black, Caucasian, Malayan, and Mongolian.
American, Indian, and Ethiopian.
Yet, [Ebm] the ignorance gets [F] scarier.
He believed whites were superior.
According to his idiotic fountain,
The purest whites were from the Caucasus mountains.
J.A. [N] Gouverneur and H.S. Chamberlain both supported this outrageous racism.
This went on to what the mass erasure be.
And why they killed the Jews in Germany.
Here is the reason why I'm so concerned.
Because you [C] must [Bb] learn. _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
We're not done.
_ [E] We're not done.
[F] _ _
[C] Check this out.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
Shem was a black man
in Africa.
If you repeat this fact they can't laugh at you.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] He [N] was a man of faith, a man of love, a man of justice, a man of love, a man of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] justice.
_ _ _ He was a man of faith, _ _ _ _ _ a man of love, [Eb] a man of justice.
He was [F] _ a man of faith, [D] a man of love, _ a man of justice.
He was a man of faith, [Db] _ [G] a man of love, a man of justice.
What do you mean when you say I'm [E] rebellious?
Cause I don't [C] accept everything that [A] you're telling us?
What are [F] you selling us?
The creator dwelling us?
I sit in your unknown [G] class while you're failing us.
I failed [Eb] to top this idea with your weakness.
You're trying to make [F] me you by ceasing it.
Off [Eb] my mind with C.J. [F] Rook.
C.
John Rook in a hard corner, bro.
Come [Eb] on now, let's like a [F] public cow.
It doesn't exist, [E] no way, no how.
[F] It seems to me that in a school this ebony, [Db] African history should be pumped up steadily but it's not.
And it's got [F] to stop.
C.
Spock run, run, get Spock.
Insulting to a black mentality, a black way of life for a jet black family.
So I [Eb] include with one [F] concern that you must learn [Eb] to threaten.
_ [Db] Hold [N] up please, hold up please.
We're going to see if they're really ready for this.
Are y'all having fun tonight?
_ _ _ _ I said are y'all having fun tonight?
I _ believe that if you're teaching history, deal with straight upper backs, no [F] mystery.
Teach the student what needs to be taught.
Because black and white kids both take shorts.
When one doesn't know about the other's culture.
Ignorance swoops down like a folklorist.
Because you don't know that you ain't just a canada.
You know when you talk about Ventress Battega, a brilliant black man that invented the almanac.
Can't you see where KRS is coming at?
With Eli Whitney, Bobby Solasi, Granville Woods, Megan Walker, Tawky,
Bewis Slatterman improved on Edison, Charles Drew did a lot for medicine,
Garrett [Eb] Morgan made the traffic [F] lights, Harriet Tubman for the slave night,
[Bb] Madame C.J. Walker made the statement [Eb] code.
But you won't know this [F] if you won't show.
The point I'm getting at, it might be hard, is we're just walking around brainwashed.
See what I'm saying?
It's not to diss a man.
We need the 89 school system.
One black teacher to a black return.
Because you must [G] learn.
[Ebm] What up, cameraman?
[F] Let me hear you say ho!
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [F] We're not through with the ragga stuff.
We're [Eb] not through with the [F] ragga muffin stuff yet, man. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Akumu-Lan is the original [F] name of Africa, now stripped of its fame.
It's good to [Ebm] know that in ancient times, Egyptians developed all sciences of the mind.
To the point where they ruled the planet.
But Rome, Greece, and Persia wasn't having it.
They attacked and won the war.
But it wasn't enough.
They had to get to [A] the core.
Because in that [F] common was Akumu-Lan.
That moved religion, politics, and man.
In order to destroy the Egyptian race, who had the right for sciences.
From off the face of the planet.
So they proceeded to ban it and replace it with Christianity.
As it's been that way.
So we teach today.
Learn what we teach.
Hear what we say.
But here comes the king of all the S to O, the N to E, the B, D, P.
And we [G] rhyme intelligently.
Let me [Ebm] continue with [F] Theodosius.
A Greek ruler not known to most of us.
He, in the 4th century AD, closed the Egyptian schools to see.
Two years later, Justinian rules.
6 AD was it for schools.
[Ebm] As a result, ignorance had [F] swirled over Christian Europe and great Roman world.
This went [Eb] on for a thousand [Db] years of ignorance, [F] stupidity, and tears.
Now comes the 17th century hardness.
Europe began to come out of its darkness.
Some Johann [Eb] F.
Blumenbacher, German, came out of nowhere and started confirming.
White [Eb] supremacy and men of [N] colors.
Before this time, all men were brothers.
It was Johann who went on to say,
There are five different colors in the world today.
Black, Caucasian, Malayan, and Mongolian.
American, Indian, and Ethiopian.
Yet, [Ebm] the ignorance gets [F] scarier.
He believed whites were superior.
According to his idiotic fountain,
The purest whites were from the Caucasus mountains.
J.A. [N] Gouverneur and H.S. Chamberlain both supported this outrageous racism.
This went on to what the mass erasure be.
And why they killed the Jews in Germany.
Here is the reason why I'm so concerned.
Because you [C] must [Bb] learn. _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
We're not done.
_ [E] We're not done.
[F] _ _
[C] Check this out.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _