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