[Hook x2: Harmony]
Heal yourself! You got to heal yourself!
Heal yourself! Ooohhh!
[Kid Capri talking]
[Verse 1: Big Daddy Kane]
Mama said, "Don't do crack and smoke, you know
'Cause it will make your nose grow like Pinocchio"
Since I was only 15, I had to listen
To what was said, from a parent who's 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 trippin' on me, bustin' and flippin' on me
So I had to front and say "Yo, true! Stick it on me!"
I started smokin' to prove I'm an adult
Now it's a habit, but is it all my fault?
I wished my mother had've told me the truth
'Cause now I'm all based out, Ma dukes
[Bridge: Kid Capri]
Oh, man! I like the way that's goin' down!
Now, what I want you to do is kick a little flavor, Freddie Foxx!
[Verse 2: 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 sisters, can't you tell?
You're just the surface of a dark deep well
And how can you prefer to be with those
That sprayed you with gun and hoses
And never put roses on the graves
Of the slaves that they treated like dirt
After all that hard work
[Bridge: Kid Capri]
Clap your hands to the beat
C'mon! Just clap your hands to the beat
Freak it, L!
[Verse 3: 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 (Uh!)
Always fantasizin', but steadily denyin'
Last night, she had to stop 'cause her baby was cryin'
She do it on the phone all alone with a smile
Run the water, grab the shower cap and get buckwild
Soap suds on the floor — oooh! Al B Sure
Give it to me, give it to me, give me a little more!
I'm fiendin', creamin', screamin', dreamin'
(What else?) The girl's possessed by the basehead demon
[Hook: Harmony]
Heal yourself! You got to heal yourself!
Heal yourself! Ooohhh!
[Verse 4: 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 Weusi Shule
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 bein' mistreated
Which means the world is bein' cheated
[Verse 5: Queen Latifah]
Jane was never taught her life was worth somethin'
But when people don't try to improve
It makes me want to hurt somethin'!
You wanna 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 givin' up the bod'?
Today it seems not to father you too hard
They call us skeezers, and you prove it to the worst
Hun, you have to earn the right to say it's ladies first
[Bridge: Kid Capri]
Oh, man! This is Human-Education-Against-Lies
You better know the flavor, kid!
[Verse 6: 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
Holdin' back on real education
Before you're a color, first you're human
Teachin' humanity is what we're doin'!
[Bridge: Kid Capri]
And just when you thought you knew everythin' there was to know
You didn't know anythin' about this — tell 'em, Melodie!
[Verse 7: Ms. Melodie]
Daddy's home every day since he lost his job
His new line of work is now beatin' 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 Packin' A Pan
A human war between woman and man
[Bridge: Kid Capri & (Jam Master Jay)]
Melodie, Kid Capri and... (JMJ all the way!)
[Verse 8: Jam Master Jay & DMC]
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
Check it out! Check! No disrespect
To each and every member of the opposite sexes
Yes! Listen to the messages, and I send some
We never knew where the poison came from!
Yo, we're rappin' on H.E.A.L. so we thought we'd like to mention
Acquired-Immune-Deficiency-Syndrome — AIDS!
We're here to make you get wise
Human-Education-Against-Lies
[Kid Capri talking]
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