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Ice Cube

Higher

Release date: 3rd January 1995

From Higher Learning (Music From the Motion Picture)
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"Higher" is a track by Ice Cube, from the album Higher Learning (Music From the Motion Picture) , released 3rd January 1995. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Higher

Verse 1:

Yo, I wanna get high

I wanna get high

Walking through campus with my backpack

Bailin' to orientation

So I can change the nation

See many faces but none of 'em mirror me

Show my ID to the punk ass security

Step on the quad lookin' for the track squad

Walked by a bitch who think she's God

Passing me a flyer talkin' 'bout the Messiah

She wanna take me higher

Keep your rhetoric in the heavens

Look and see a bro' with a fro like Michael Evans

Done spent 6 years in the college

Always telling me to question the knowledge

Sittin' in the black hole with the black stroll

And not even one cave bitch in our click

Sayin' fuck Professor Phipps

I come from the land of the Bloods and the Crips (What's up nigga)

Don't like scholarships because they hurt me

Nothin' but a slave to the university

That's why ya see me on the track field run by ya

Caught by a liar who wanna take me higher

Chorus

Shit, he wanna take me higher

Wait until they get a load of me, shit shit

I wanna get high so high

Chocolate Thai

Verse 2:

I wanna take flight ya Goddamn right

It's a party every fucking night

Been there for about 6 weeks

Walked by the freaks

Look, black greeks

How the fuck ya figure

I dig ya me bein' from niggafied nigga

White boy in the room with me

Who never saw BET what the fuck

He's about to erupt and turn red

Start hangin' with the muthafuckin' skinheads

Cause he can't deal with the overkill

College ain't nothin' but niggerville

And he regret that his school is filled

With niggers jews and wetbacks

Plus chinks now he drinks

Hour after hour screaming white power

Motherfucker want me to call him sire

He wanna take me higher

Chorus

Shit he wanna take me higher

Shit wait until they get a load of me

Shit shit shit

Verse 3:

A girl gets date raped just like that

At a frat now she chase the cat

Feminist saying women is God's gift

Do you need a lift can I take a sniff

Do I sound sexist cause I'm chasin'

After Deja she from Texas?

Down to kick the asses of the fascists

Who wanna put me in the oven and burn me to ashes

But I'm not burnin' the world keeps turnin'

And nobody learnin'

Cause college is full of shit

Teachin' me to memorize nothin' but the lies

Chillin' at a rally for peace

The beast from white power up in the tower

With the M-1 gun and a scope on dope

Thinkin' he's the great white hope

Motherfucker levels off

He wanna see me 6 feet deep shoveled off

Cause Columbus University is nothing but a empire

Who wanna take me higher

Chorus:

Shit they wanna take me higher

Wait until they get a load of me

Shit they wanna take me higher

They wanna take me higher

Unh damn they wanna take me higher

Damn wait until they get a load of me

Damn unh they wanna take me they wanna take me

Them muthafuckas'll never break me shit

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From Higher Learning (Music From the Motion Picture)

1995
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Higher Learning (Music From the Motion Picture)
Higher Learning (Music From the Motion Picture)
Tori Amos
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1995

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