This song shows a strong turn away from Sammus' earlier messaging regarding the importance of school. While this song doesn’t discredit the value of education, she does make a strong critique against the current way in which higher education functions in the United States.
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School’s out for the summer
School’s out forever x 2
VERSE
Got a stack of student loans
Can’t leave town for another year
25 gotta live at home
Need to sneak around call it Metal Gear
Mom’s all in yo' shit
Asking when you gon' leave
Like yo get of of my dick
You supposed to be on my team
You smoke a bit of that green
Every single day to take a little bit of edge off
You think you going insane
Wanna run away quicker than a blue hedgehog
Overworked
Underpaid
And to say you’re stressed
Is an understatement
They working you like a slave
Your boss be acting like a dominatrix
Check the mail
Sallie Mae
Got another bill
You forgot to pay
Been a living hell
After graduation
Can’t complain
Cuz they always say
That knowledge is power
So we drop thousands of dollars
Much more than lots of us have
To get enough credit hours
Or maybe just to build up a network
Do I really got to pay my whole net worth?
When everything I’m finna learn
I’ll forget it in another semester
We rotate in a circle round and round we just keep spinning
It’s why I call my generation graduated cylinders
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VERSE 2
I got a loan at financial aid
They steady tryna play me
We on the phone at least once a day
So it’s almost like were dating
I need a check for my textbooks
At 50 each it ain’t coming cheap
And another G for my Macbook
My bank account finna rest in peace
At an ATM with a rosary and
I don’t want to check my balance
I just wanna buy my groceries
Nigga I just wanna get through college
Soon its gonna get real violent
Students finna be astonished
They gonna wanna throw Katanas
They dealing with the broken promise
That politicans want to say to kids
Like long division finna pay the bills
But they never gonna go admit
That it’s hard to go and get a hundred thousand chips
And when you talking school reform
They actin’ like it’s TMI
They so busy makin’ sure
They pockets got big BMI
Big banks give patronage
That is hazardous
To the graduates
But no matter how bad it gets
They don’t fuck like abstinence
So if I had to pick to stay in school or to dip then
I would do it like 'Ye and be the dopest statistic yo
CHORUS
School’s Out was produced by Sammus.