Next Generation Lyrics - Rah Digga

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 

We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die 

The only thing I fear is the after life 

'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side 

But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try 

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 

'Cause 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 

We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die 

The only thing I fear is the after life 

'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side 

But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try 

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 

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 'cause 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 

For a lying ass but yo forgive us 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 

We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die 

The only thing I fear is the after life 

'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side 

But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try 

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 want to 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 stars, how many will there be left of us 

We are the next generation, we ain't scared to die 

The only thing I fear is the after life 

'Cause I don't know what's there on the other side 

But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try