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Killer Instinct​.​.​.​till the N​*​gger's Extinct

from Higher Learning by Mercury the Maroon

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The fix has been in on the black community for centuries now, and Mercury is digging up some of the roots with "Killer Instinct..." The song also speaks to the need to kill the "nigger within" oneself.

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Chorus
Is it Killer Instinct?
Till the Nigger's Extinct?

I heard the SOS coming from the lower decks/
A kidnapping, Africans in distress/
Ain't no place to rest on a slave ship/
That's the first page in the test of patience/
Back breaking labor awaits them in Macon/
That's if they ain't stationed in a cane field/
Rain, sleet, or snow they hoeing for the crop to keep growing/
They look pretty and all that, but no dough!/
You gotta whip, you gotta whip 'em/
Sprinkle salt, make it tickle/
Watch a nigger twitch!

Chorus

Little Dwayne cracks a joke in class/
And everybody laughs but his teacher/
Who said that was his last chance/
I'm gonna have to tell your parents/
Cause I simply can't stand for these types of shenanigans/
Little Dwayne is scared, cause Daddy don't spare the rod/
And he definitely don't tolerate tears/
He sits back quietly in the chair, for maybe Mr. Johnson would be fair/
Dwayne did behave for the rest of the day, but he went home late to his mother waiting for him/
And when Daddy came home, Daddy whupped his ass!/
Made him take his clothes off and beat him/
Beat him till he peed on himself/
It's slavery all over again/
Daddy becomes the overseer/
The one with all the money who can't spend no time/
But Daddy do all the beating/
Modern day teachers have become officers/
Enforcing the rules of society through textbooks, handouts/
Scantrons, Detentions, suspensions/
The Number 2 pencils that carve poison into our minds/
Making us remember lies year after year/
These schools are killing our children/
And we send them unarmed into an intellectual battlefield/
And we beat them when they come home with scars...

Is it Killer Instinct?

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from Higher Learning, released August 31, 2006
Written and Produced by Terrence "Mercury" Harris for 3 O Clock High Music

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