Verse 1: G
It's a shame, brothers takin' life as a game Growing up against the law, but no-one knows who's to Dealin' drugs on the corner, you don't have to, but you A meal is hard to make, but you tell you're gonna Dealing 12 to 12, day into I how you continue to be grieving Your meal is made and it's to chill You buy the Mercedes Benz with the gold to the grill Cruisin' up the ave your friends get jealous You find out, you quickly get You buy a gun, it doesn't but hurt you Because so-called friend rattled on you in the pen serving 10 to 20 Your boy snatched your girl and put use to your You're out for teen, but what it mean? just a wasted, young brother who lost it all on a dream
Chorus: (sampled from Going On by Marvin Gaye) goin' on, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I Yeah, what's goin' on,
Verse 2: Afrika, G
My blood is bleeding, it's a cryin' shame Out on the street tryin' to play the an in-mate straight from upstate Can't stop him now 'cause you see it's too late He's on the run and got a gun out his way unless you want some See, he's older, a bit more bolder Got his written up in the 5-0 folder A big Christmas of all the crime's he's committed He says he didn't do it, but we he did it Summons his lawyers, fingerprints, shots Lookin' for my brother, yo, at the drug spots off that cheap Chinese food He he only bumps the people when he's in the mood Runnin' 'round with his and his 2-2's I saw him last night in the prime time and killed by a His birth to the earth was a big
Now, history was not my subject I used to flip through the pages and get Seein' little of black and too of the other (They to brainwash you) Picture that, a jungle brother Read this, read that, answer 3 But I got to 3, it had nothin' to do with me was wrong, and I knew it all along Now me (please) what's goin' on
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Verse 3: Afrika, G
A: Now, I've been told all the do's and My mother, hallelujah, she the shots She said, "Don't play guns and play with knives And most of all, don't play with other wives When you're walkin' the street, pay the pushers no mind 'Cause all they do is put your mind on cloud nine Put your head up high and your on the ground You have to be like everybody else to be down Stay in G: Don't be no A: Don't lose your G: And keep your A: your heart G: And not friends A: And of your friends G: Could lead you into ends" A: The other day my said, "Son, God bless your soul Our life is gettin' and the world is cold" I said, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, do you mean?" He said, G: "You got nothin' 'less you got the green" A: I realise to myself things are be hard So each and every day I to God I say, "Now I lay me to sleep G: I give the my soul to keep A: If I should die before I G: Take me to heaven 'cause I need a A: But if you let me live to another G: I'd like to what's goin' on
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What's on, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I Tell me what's on, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I