Heal Yourself Lyrics - Big Daddy Kane

(chorus:harmony) 

Heal yourself you got to heal yourself 

(kid capri talks) 

(big daddy kane) 

Mama said don't do crack and smoke you know 

'cause it will make your nose grow like pinnochio 

Since I was only 15 I had to listen 

To what was said for my parent was a christian 

I went to school and saw all my friends do it 

But I said no 'cause I don't want my nose to grow 

They started tripping on me, busting and flipping on me 

So I had to front and say yo, true, stick it on me 

I started smoking to prove I'm an adult 

Now it's a habt but is it all my fault 

I wished my mother would have told me the truth 

'cause now I'm all based out, ma dukes 

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(kid capri) 

Oh man I like the way that's going down 

Now why won't you do is kick a little freddie foxx 

(freddie foxxx) 

Everybody rise as I present to a jet black crowd 

What it's like to be black and proud 

In a world where white is right but not tonight 

This is a black man's might 

I heard a sister say she don't like darker shades of black 

On a man 'cause that's wack 

But to my light skin sister can't you tell 

You're just the surface of a dark deep well 

And how can you prefer to be wit those 

That sprayed you wit gun and hoses 

And never put roses on the graves 

Of the slaves that they treated like dirt 

After all that hard work 

Photos 

(kid capri) 

Clap your hands to the beat, c'mon, just clap your hands to the beat 

Freak it now 

(ll cool j) 

One of the biggest lies you hear from no one else 

Is when a girl tries to say she don't do it to herself 

Always fantasizing but steadily denying 

Last night she had to stop 'cause her baby was crying 

She do it on the phone all alone wit a smile 

Run the water, grab the shower cap and get buckwhyled 

Soap suds on the floor, oh al b sure 

Give it to me, give it to me, give me a little more 

I'm fiending, creaming, screaming, dreaming (what else) 

The girl's possess by the basehead demon 

Chorus 

(mc lyte) 

In elementary, lyte had the jordache look 

Like me and any other kid who cared about books 

But then I got wise and I begin to listen 

To the wack teachers and the wick-wack system 

My mother put me in ? 

Which means black school in swahili 

And there is where I learned black history 

And how to be the best that I can be 

I went back and now the school is closed 

There is nowhere for black youth to go 

To be taught by brothers and sisters who knows what it means 

To be a black child or a white teen 

In the end the youth is being mistreated 

Which means the world is being cheated 

(queen latifah) 

Dane was never taught her life was worth something 

But when people don't try to improve it makes me want to hurt something 

You want to be somebody and be a standout 

But got your handout, oh you're broke, I guess it's off to your man's house 

Why is sister's giving up the ball 

Today it seems not to father you too hard 

They call us squeezers and you prove it to the worst 

You have to earn the right to say it's ladies first 

(kid capri) 

Oh man this is human education against lies 

You better know the flavor kid 

(krs-one) 

Human education against lies tries 

To open the eyes of humanity before it dies 

Black and white ain't the real fight 

That's the only thing the media hypes 

The real fight are these major corporations 

Holding back on real education 

Before you're a color, first you're human 

Teaching humanity is what we're doing 

(kid capri) 

And just when you thought you knew everything there was to know 

You didn't know anything about this, tell 'em melodie 

(ms melodie) 

Daddy's home everyday since he lost his job 

His new line of work is now beating up mom 

Mom is scared, she doesn't know what to do 

Her beautiful skin is now black and blue 

She used to cry, now she's back in the pen 

A human war between women and men 

(kid capri) 

Melodie, kid capri 

(jam master jay and dmc) 

Jam jay on the way, yo 

Human education against lies 

To all the girls and to all the guys 

Get paid, get it made 

Get a good grade, live to a very old age 

Checking out jet, no disrespect 

To each and every member of the opposite sexes 

Is yes, listen to the messages and I send some 

We never knew where the poison came from 

Yo, we're rapping on h.e.a.l. so we thought we like to mention 

Acquired immune defiency syndrome 

Aids, we're here to make you get wise 

Human education against lies 

(kid capri talks)