Lyrics from Brown and Proud’s “It’s All About Nothing” encourage youngsters to stay in school:

Going to school, gettin ‘ my education,

so vato loco here’s the situation,

when a sucker mad dog and give s me one of them looks,

vato, i just pull out the books,

knowledge is tops , you heard of that saying ,

so vato loco , ain’t no time to be playing,

get what you want to get front and center

or get 10 years for breaking and enter.