Next Generation (feat. Scarface & Rah Digga)

[Wyclef]
 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 mother to love and I never knew my papi
 Back in the days of 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
 [Wyclef]
 We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die
 The only thing I fear is the after life
 Cos I don't know what's there on the other side
 But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
 [Wyclef]
 Gang poppin' things, doing drive-by's and angers
 Kids going to school putting fears in their teacher
 The teacher let them know that it ain't all good
 Cos the gang was created to protect the neighborhood, now
 All you red now, all you blue now
 All you yellow now, follow me now
 To that place of righteousness
 Where the only thing that matters is your consciousness, he said
 [Wyclef]
 We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die
 The only thing I fear is the after life
 Cos I don't know what's there on the other side
 But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
 [Wyclef]
 In my father's kingdom there are many mansions
 All the rooms are free, there is no tax collection
 I can see Biggie, Tupac, Moses and Abraham
 Jason, the one and two's, jamming with the sun of man
 [Scarface]
 I've been kicked, I've been stabbed
 I've been shot, I've been? by a
 Person that I thought I trusted, where I live
 It's a war at the cribs, walk with a strap
 Myself cos I don't want nobody's son on my back
 My mind playing tricks?, to really?
 Me out in five unless I take another hit
 I done seen the sun set on the other side of town
 Now I'm drifting in the darkness, Heaven hold me down
 ??? 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
 We get plotted on by agents with talks of replacing
 The Africans, Jamaicans and the Haitians in this next generation
 [Wyclef]
 We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die
 The only thing I fear is the after life
 Cos I don't know what's there on the other side
 But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try
 [Rah Digga]
 Whoa, we the next generation, look at what we facing
 The kids raise themselves, all kind of temptation
 Flowers and candles decorating all the pavements
 No, the perpetrator ain't seeing no arrangements
 Nobody cares about the feelings of the poor
 Man they suffer while we spending eighty billion on a war, uh
 Cutting school budgets, US stockmarket plummets
 Condition's only worse and I wonder what become it
 Metal detectors replace music classes
 Angry little kids wanna beat their teacher's asses
 The red and blue's, 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 gettin' us
 Now we got sars, how many will there be left of us
 [Wyclef]
 We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die
 The only thing I fear is the after life
 Cos I don't know what's there on the other side
 But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try