Bus School Hard Fucking Girls
Susanne Sima
CHUCK D: 'Cause I see the fucking results of it. And you gotto have a structure in the society, in the school system, that's ableto say well, this is the right, and this is the wrong. We could saythat families are supposed to do it, but we ain't got family the wayit's supposed to be. So I mean, we've got to go to a school orstructure that can teach us family.
I'm seeing results whether it be Memphis, Houston, St. Louis,Chicago, Detroit--it could be the smaller fucking cities. I'll takeyou right in the 'Velt, Roosevelt--one square mile. Got 14 delis inthere, and every single deli got Ice Cube's poster. The people say,"Well, why do you give so much of a damn?" Because I've got to live inthis motherfucker. And I'm grown. Once you're over 18, fun and gamesgot to be put to number three. Responsibility and business got to beone and two and you can have fun and games and shit, but once youunderstand those number one and two things, you understand that funand games are being played on your ass. I tell motherfuckers in aminute, you can be hardcore and be positive. Thieves and pimps andmurderers, man, motherfuckers got to pay a penalty. The problem isthat some white boy coming in and trying to remedy the situation andwe need to start doing it ourselves. The more grown people you havethat understand they're adults and take control of their community,the less bullshit you have coming in. And you used to have somethinglike that until quote unquote so-called integration.
And I think that's something that definitely got to be taughtthrough the school systems. I mean a lot of things have to be taughtto us. Once again, I go back to slavery. Slavery has done a lot offucking detriment, where it's almost irreparable unless we're going tofucking eight-hour-a-day training sessions that satisfy our intellectbut also satisfy our wants and needs, you know. I mean, mentally andphysically. School's got to be school. And a school for black people,black kids, definitely it got to be different from white kids.
You know, you walk into a fourth and fifth grade, in a blackschool--quote unquote black school--today, I'm telling you, you'refinding chaos right now, 'cause rappers came in the game and threwthat confusing element in it, and now kids is like, "Yo, fuck thismotherfuck." School, I'm telling you, the educational system from hereto here is at war, I'm telling you. In the '90s, by 1995, it'sgone. I'll tell you, I do speaking engagements, I went to fuckingEvansville. White high school. Eighty per cent white. And every one ofthe white kids is number one like this, "What's up man, uh,yo. [Laughs] Yo, thanks a lot man, y'all teaching us a differentperspective, because I can take so much of this Patrick Henrybullshit."
Other people came and said, "Damn, saying you're older in rap islike taboo." I started making records when I was 26. So I just threwall that shit out the window. 'Cause when I was growing up, I likedthe Tempts. You didn't look at them as being old motherfuckingmen. O'Jays--bad as a motherfucker. So I said, well, basically yourolder brother can communicate to younger brothers 'cause youngerbrothers want to get to where their older brothers are. I got a car, Iain't got to go to school no more, and I'm working. I got a little bitof money with me. Somebody 14 saying, "Hey, it ain't bad. I can relateto some of that."
CHUCK D: Somebody does, anyway. I tell you what I think,though, I just feel like cursing is kind of played. The Geto Boys tookit as far as you could take it. When I went down South, the album thatI could play that met the medium of everybody in the car--mysister-in-law, and my other sister-in-law, she's 14, my daughter, myniece, they're like three and four, my wife--so you know, I wassurrounded by Apaches, I can't be playing Boyz N the Hoodsoundtrack now. I got my tapes here--can't play Robin Harris. You knowwho we ended up playing six times? L.L. Mama Said Knock YouOut. It was hard enough for me, nice enough for the wife. It'slike the hardest pop record ever made. He made a fucking hard albumwithout cursing.
One of the few times I saw my mom really angry was when she was called out for not contributing to the school bake sales. My mom, who was working in purchasing at a local factory all day, doing farm chores each night and on the weekend, and cooking, cleaning, doing everything else to keep the house functional did not have the time to bake fucking cookies for your fucking bake sale.
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