I went to school for six years but I never graduated
'Cause my parents were poor
Now I'm undereducated
Like so many others
All over the nation
'Cause the government is saving on public education
I am thirty, male, call me white trash
Standing in line with my pockets full of cash
It was payday today and I am going to spend money
On a bottle of booze to bring home for my honey
My future's all set
I am a part of the gang
I make money on the street any time I can
I sell drugs to the kids 'cause that's what pays
I make a couple of hundreds in just one day
D'you see my 'vette in the drive
At home I got a benz
I like speeding on the highway
Bribe a cop with a grand
D'you need a woman
A bitch
With a bust forty-two
Just let me know
Got one for you
One for the money two for the show
Three to get ready now go kids go!
'Cause my parents were poor
Now I'm undereducated
Like so many others
All over the nation
'Cause the government is saving on public education
Standing in line with my pockets full of cash
It was payday today and I am going to spend money
On a bottle of booze to bring home for my honey
I am a part of the gang
I make money on the street any time I can
I sell drugs to the kids 'cause that's what pays
I make a couple of hundreds in just one day
At home I got a benz
I like speeding on the highway
Bribe a cop with a grand
D'you need a woman
A bitch
With a bust forty-two
Just let me know
Got one for you
Three to get ready now go kids go!
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A statement about the cause of drug problems, I say. "Cause the government is saving on public education"
S'pose the chorus, then, is suggesting that the kids don't have much time to get ready, they're just told 'go kids go!'.
This song implies that America's drug and prostitution problem is because the government is reluctant to provide children of poor parents with support for higher education.
Never has a truer word been spoken.
With the recent cuts to the educational budgets of several states in the US, this song's message of the government's negligence to the urban poor has never rang truer.