it s a cryin shame brothers takin life as a game growing up against the law but no one knows who s to blame dealin drugs on the corner you don t have to but you wanna a mil is hard to make but you tell yourself you re gonna dealin 12 to 12 day into evening i wonder how you continue to be breathin your mil is made and it s time to chill you buy the black mercedes benz with the gold to the grill cruisin up the ave while your friends get jealous you find out you quickly get restless you buy a gun it doesn t help but hurt you because your so called friend ratted on you you re in the pen serving 10 to 20 your boy snatched your girl and put use to your money you re out for teen but what does it mean you re just a wasted young brother who lost it all on a dream what s goin on i i i i i i i i i i yeah what s goin on i i i i i i i i i i my blood brother is bleedin it s a cryin shame out on the street tryin to play the game formally an in mate straight from upstate can t stop him now cause you see it s just too late he s on the run and he s got a gun stay out his way unless you want some see he s gettin older a bit more bolder got his name written up in the 5 0 folder a big christmas list of all the crime s he s committed he says he didn t do it but we know he did it summons his lawyers fingerprints mug shots lookin for my brother yo he s at the drug spots livin off that cheap chinese food he says he only bumps off people when he s in the mood runnin round with his crews and his 2 2 s i saw him last night in the prime time news shot and killed by an on duty jake his birth to the earth was a big mistake now history was not my favorite subject i used to flip through the pages and get upset seein little of black and too much of the other picture that a jungle brother read this read that answer question 3 but when i got to 3 it had nothin to do with me somethin was wrong and i knew it all along now tell me what s goin on  what s goin on i i i i i i i i i i yeah what s goin on i i i i i i i i i i now i ve been told all the do s and don t do not s my mother hallelujah she called the shots she said don t play with guns and play with knives and most of all don t play with other people s wives when you re walkin down the street pay the pushers no mind cause all they wanna do is put your mind on cloud nine put your head up high and your feet on the ground you don t have to be like everybody else to be down stay in school don t lose your temper follow your heart cause some of your friends the other day my father said son god bless your soul our life is gettin tougher and the world is cold i said daddy daddy daddy what do you mean he said i realise to myself things are gonna be hard so each and every day i pray to god i say now i lay me down to sleep if i should die before i wake but if you let me live to another morn what s goin on i i i i i i i i i i yeah what s goin on i i i i i i i i i i 