Information - Too Short

Information — can you buy it?

Can you sell it?

And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?

Just like History class when you’re in school

You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool

Ask the Native Americans, Mexicans, and Africans

The things you lost, would you rather get 'em back again?

I tried so hard to believe you

But we all know the things that Europeans do

Now what if the Asians, Africans, and Indians

Never taught you nothin', you would still be primitive

What we all need is self-education

That’s the only way to educate this nation

The good old USA

Built on lies from back in the days

Great Britain, France, and Spain got bold

Destroyed the New World lookin' for gold

Now, information — can you buy it?

Can you sell it?

And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?

Just like History class when you’re in school

You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool

I need some more info

I don’t really know what happened to my kinfolk

I know we built the nation with our bare hands

Helped you fight your wars just like the Indians

But when he tells you his story, we ain’t in it

Why you stealin' people’s lands?

You can’t admit it, can you?

Tell me why do you lie to little kids

With your one-sided stories?

Tell 'em what you did

Better yet, tell 'em what you didn’t do

It wasn’t brains, your gun was your pimpin', too

That’s how you mastered the slave trade

Shipped from overseas so you could stay paid

Divide and conquer, everywhere you go

But by the time we finish school, we barely know the real truth

Need to stop and take a serious look

Who wrote these government-issued history books?

Man, information — can you buy it?

Can you sell it?

And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?

Just like History class when you’re in school

You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool

The European couldn’t do it by himself, y’all

If the Indians wasn’t here, he woulda left, y’all

But instead, he gave 'em all his diseases

Tried to kill 'em, take the land and seize it

Move into the camps that the Natives built

Named cities and states but do they say who helped?

Hell nah, they say Lincoln freed the slaves

But we ain’t free yet, I still see them days

Racism ain’t goin' nowhere

Watch movies about the future, niggas ain’t there

Maybe one or two — what happened to the rest?

They tryin' to keep your self esteem low, it’s just a test

Every man had his own land before the European

I can’t believe what I’m seein'

That’s why your pride is on vacation

Brainwashed a whole nation with the wrong information

Can you buy it?

Can you sell it?

And if you really knew the truth, would you tell it?

Just like History class when you’re in school

You grow up and learn the truth, you’re just a fool

Information, bitch

Gotta get the right info, baby

(Gotta get it while the gettin' is good)

Fuck around, goin' around talkin' 'bout some stupid shit, bitch

(Dummy)