Next Generation
Wyclef Jean feat. Scarface & R
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Hold on now
Don't die now
Be strong now
He said
I was born a crack baby
In a plastic bag in the alley
Raised in a foster home
With no motherly love and I never knew my pappy
Back in the days when Bobby McFerrin
Used to sing "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Lord
How can I be happy
When I don't even know my own family tree Lord
We are the next generation
We ain't scared to die
The only thing I fear is the afterlife
'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
Gang problem things doing drive-bys in angles
Kids going to school putting fears in they teacher
Y'all need to let them know that it ain't all good
'Cause the gang was created to protect the neighborhood now
Whether you red now (True)
Or you blue now (True)
Or you yellow now (True)
Follow me now
To that place of righteousness
Where the only thing that matters is your consciousness
We are the next generation
We ain't scared to die
The only thing I fear is the afterlife
'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
In my father's kingdom
There are many mansions
All the rooms are free
There is no tax collection
I could see Biggie, 2Pac, Moses and Abraham
J's on the one and twos
Jamming with the son of man
I've been kicked, I've been stabbed, I've been shot, I've been hit
By a person that I thought I trusted, where I live
It's a war at the crib, so I walk with a strap
Myself 'cause I don't want nobody's soul on my back
My mind playing tricks, is it really out to get
Me out at five unless I take another hit
I can see the sun setting on the other side of town
Now I'm drifting in the darkness, heaven hold me down
I was born to see the end, but I know I'm born dying
Feel the tears of the angels looking down on me crying
Father I ain't asked for your forgiveness in a while
And I'm sorry, never let me forget that I'm your child
While I'm locked up in this basement
Staring eye to eye with Satan
In this cold dark world with no patience
Being plotted on by agents
With talks of replacing
The African Jamaicans and the Haitians
The next generation
We are the next generation
We ain't scared to die
The only thing I fear is the afterlife
'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
We the next generation, look at what we facing
Kids raise themselves, all kind of temptation
Flowers and candles decorating all the pavements
Know the perpetrator ain't seeing no arraignment
Nobody cares 'bout the feelings of the poor
Many suffer while we spending eighty billion on a war
Cutting school budgets, US stock markets plummet
Conditions only worsen, now I wonder what be coming
Metal detectors replace music classes
Angry little kids wanna beat they teachers asses
The red and blue, somebody gotta lose
Reality TV be reality for who?
I don't question what the Lord found in me
I just pass it on to folks with no boundaries
Got a long road ahead of us, AIDS already deadened us
Now we got SARS, how many will there be left of us?
We are the next generation
We ain't scared to die
The only thing I fear is the afterlife
'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try