Why is that? chords by
Boogie Down Productions

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Key: G# minor

Intro 1

Verse 1

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

Verse 2
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,

Verse 3
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

Verse 4
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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

Verse 9
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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

Verse 11

The information we get

today is just wack

But ask yourself, why is that?

Verse 12
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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?

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