Eric B. & Rakim - What's Going On? Lyrics
Whats going on?Whats happening, its been so long, whats going onAnd whats going wrong? the good old days are goneYou forgot your plot and your plans as a young manYou invented a scam even you dont understandYou rig the enigma, cant figure it outYou change the route, now youre in doubtYou use to cut class, smoked grass, still passed,Figured you was all that but that aint last;The times is harder, the drugs is heavierYou say whatever, the more, the merrier;Smoke chokes your dreams and blurs your scenes,Now a young man fiend change his plan to schemes;No more good times, no more time,Too far to find, youre almost blind,You cant see what spot that the trap is in...(hey bra!)whats happening!You had it mapped out, your plans get torn,You stayed up for days and now your dreams are goneYou said you quit, stated your word is bond(hey bro) whats going on?Whats going on?My neighborhood dont look so goodIll find a way out.. yeah, I would if I could,But the government is doing a project...So I live in the projects;Where we fight for elbow room to the doom,Try to live long but you die too soon,I might not be alive to see 25,Taught at ten to make money and strive;I sold tapes at school and made some endsMet alot of skins and even made some friends,Cool, cause now I got a crew to run wit,Break a couple of rules, have crazy fun wit;But every now and then, they give my knuckle game a test,But I wont fess, I just get rid of the stress!And then shake hands like a man,cause its a family thing, only the crew would understand!But you had a one on one fight wit drugs,When we aint cool no more, we buss slugs,Clip after clip, until one of us is gone...(hey bra!) whats going on?Yo, whats going on?The crime rate in new york state elevate,A city filled wit hate, more deaths accumulate,Drug wars daily, alot of blood spilt,Kids on the playground shot down and kilt!Nobody wants to live on the 1st floor no more...cause stray bullets explore!Were killing ourselves off slowly but surely,And at the end of the year, Im sure many morell beRubbed out in a quest for cloutThe restll be drugged out, this is bugged out!Half of the projects is dead or locked up,Kids getting kidnapped and then found chopped up.Human abortion create distortions...And thats just a portion, you know that were lost whenBabies are addicted to drugs when they are born....!(hey bra!) whats going on? (3x)
