[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.08]Brooklyn Public Part 1 (Album Version) (explicit) - J-Live [00:02.73]It's dedicated to [00:04.28]Bed study [00:05.43]It's representing of [00:06.96]Brownsville [00:08.14]It's representing of [00:09.57]Bush wick [00:10.81]It's dedicated to [00:12.28]Fort Greene [00:13.48]A matter fact I hold [00:14.84]Brooklyn [00:16.06]Or better yet the whole [00:17.56]New York [00:18.79]Or better yet the whole [00:20.11]America [00:21.45]It's going out to all [00:22.91]Worldwide [00:24.89]Welcome to Brooklyn public [00:26.02]One of the hardest places to work [00:27.39]So please don't apply [00:28.93]Unless you really love it [00:29.95]It's nine to five or rather eight to three [00:31.63]It's really five to nine a to p [00:33.33]If it's your job place nothing above it [00:34.89]You make more in other places [00:36.88]With higher property tax and less faces [00:39.38]But if that's what you covet [00:40.55]You ought to ask yourself if this is where you want to be [00:43.61]To help you by I'll try to paint a picture of it [00:46.04]One class 31 students 32 chairs 25 desks [00:50.24]I guess they gotta share [00:51.66]19 textbooks and most are missing pages [00:54.16]Junior high three grades but six different ages [00:56.91]Teaches and janitors double as deans [00:58.88]Deans double as security guards and crime scene investigators [01:02.40]Older teachers need respirators at elevators [01:04.79]The bad odors from the back stairs are made of [01:07.44]Gutter garshavegas used condoms and puddles of piss [01:10.72]Try not to slip there in a fire drill [01:12.92]Every now and then a scandal might reach the paper [01:15.32]For every story there's thirty in the category [01:18.10]Hard work and progress are on display in the hallways [01:20.87]Demoralized and vandalized every day [01:23.54]Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep [01:26.75]Man no wonder why the score's a mess [01:28.57]Knuckle heads begging for detention or suspension [01:31.53]Truthfully told they really only crave attention [01:34.22]Some kids showing up unprepared and dirty [01:36.73]Cause their parents gotta punch in by seven thirty [01:39.47]Sh*t some other parents seven thirty [01:41.33]They put the wrong kids on pills to be still [01:43.39]Fielding for refills [01:44.94]Principals with no principles [01:46.61]Priorities political [01:47.99]Pedagogical planning is pitiful [01:49.90]Low on tolerance high on ridicule [01:52.66]Even the infirmary's inhospitable [01:55.38]Assembly required [01:56.49]Metal detectors seeming unjust but inspired by shots fired [02:00.84]Terms like zero tolerance and lock down [02:03.51]Aging out if you ask me does not sound [02:05.86]Like education [02:06.53]But I suppose that's a cause and effect [02:08.84]When the city spends more on incarceration [02:11.32]Welcome to Brooklyn public [02:12.71]One of the hardest places to work [02:14.42]So please don't apply [02:15.39]Unless you really love it [02:16.71]It's nine to five or rather eight to three [02:18.59]It's really five to nine a to p [02:20.19]If it's your job place nothing above it [02:22.22]You make more in other places [02:23.63]With higher property tax and less faces [02:25.91]But if that's what you covet [02:27.32]You ought to ask yourself if this is where you want to be [02:29.97]To help you by I'll try to paint a picture of it [02:32.44]Grown up roam the halls with me [02:33.88]So many characters [02:35.45]Some sweet some shifty [02:37.03]Some loud some quiet [02:38.29]Some trusting some don't buy it don't try it [02:40.87]Some'll try to squash beef and some start riots [02:43.62]Some are motivated some are lazy [02:45.55]Some are geniuses some are crazy [02:47.52]The line between is hazy [02:48.94]Some'll love you some'll hate you [02:50.20]Some'll need you some'll spite you [02:51.41]Some are thankful some are ungrateful [02:53.65]Yo some are there and really care [02:55.43]About what's being learned and taught [02:57.29]They fought through it when they got stuck [02:59.55]Some are there till the bell rings [03:01.06]Run through the day without thinking [03:02.65]Cause they really don't give a f**k [03:04.90]Some'll run some'll fight [03:05.99]Some'll tell some might change the world [03:08.00]Some are early to the grave or jail [03:10.18]Some are so complicated some are so simple [03:12.65]Some are students some are teachers [03:14.14]Some are principals [03:15.18]Welcome to Brooklyn public [03:16.69]One of the hardest places to work [03:18.19]So please don't apply [03:19.39]Unless you really love it [03:20.64]It's nine to five or rather eight to three [03:22.43]It's really five to nine a to p [03:24.02]If it's your job place nothing above it [03:25.77]You make more in other places [03:27.61]With higher property tax and less faces [03:30.13]But if that's what you covet [03:31.37]You ought to ask yourself if this is where you want to be [03:34.09]To help you by I'll try to paint a picture of it [03:36.75]Come upstairs keep roaming the halls with me [03:39.37]Some many characters some sweet some shifty [03:42.29]Like I said some are complicated some are simple [03:44.82]Some are students some are teachers [03:46.24]Some are principals [03:47.40]The littlest thugs walk like they are invincible [03:50.18]Comical just look at little Dexter [03:52.23]Yo he got the type of napoleon complex to [03:55.17]Step in front of Devon twice his size just to get him vexed but [03:58.10]Devon's a gentle giant [03:59.56]Thirteen five foot eleven [04:01.45]His mom's a nurse and his dad's a reverend [04:03.51]Every now and then he gets irreverent