Wyclef Jean: Next Generation
If you’re still feeling those election blues, go listen to “Next Generation” by Wyclef Jean. It’s a song about enduring hardship in the time to come.
Wyclef Jean is a Haitian music producer, rapper, and former member of a superstar hip-hop trio, The Fugues. He has worked with artists like Santana, Destiny’s Child, the Black Eyed Peas, Mick Jagger, Eric Benét, and most interestingly Missy Elliott: a demonstration of his versatility and technique.
We are the next generation, we ain’t scared to die.
The only thing i fear is the afterlife.
‘Cause I don’t know what’s there on the other side,
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try.
[CUT]Next Generation – Wyclef Jean
[Wyclef Jean]
Hold on now, don’t die now. Be strong now.
He said, “I was born a crack baby,
in the plastic bag in the alley,
raised in a foster home with no motherly love:
and I never knew my papi.”
“Back in the days, when Bobby McPheren
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!”
[Chorus]
We are the next generation, we ain’t scared to die.
The only thing i fear is the afterlife.
‘Cause I don’t know what’s there on the other side,
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try.
[Wyclef Jean]
Gang poppin’ things doing drivebys in anger,
Kids goin’ to school puttin’ fears in their teacher,
Ya need to 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 matter is your consciousness. He said
[Chorus]
We are the next generation, we ain’t scared to die.
The only thing i fear is the afterlife.
‘Cause I don’t know what’s there on the other side,
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try.
[Wyclef Jean]
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 & Twos, jamming with the Son of Man.
[Scarface]
I’ve been kicked, I’ve been stabbed, I’ve been shot, I’ve been give’..
by a person that I thought I trusted, where I live.
It’s a war at the crib, so I walk with a strap–
Myself, ’cause I don’t want nobody’s son on my back.
My mind playing tricks on it, to really I be get it.
Me out in five unless I take another hit,
I can see the sun setting on the other side of town.
Now I’m drifting in the darkness, Heaven hold me down.
I want to see the end, 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.
[Chorus]
We are the next generation, we ain’t scared to die.
The only thing i fear is the afterlife.
‘Cause 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]
We the next generation, look at what we facing:
kids raise themselves, all kind of temptation
Flowers and candles decorating all the pavements
No, the perpetrator ain’t seeing no arraignment!
Nobody cares about the feelings of the poor,
many suffer while we spending eighty billion on a war!
Cutting school budgets, US stock market plummets
Condition’s only worse and I wonder what be coming.
Metal detectors replace music classes,
angry little kids wanna beat their teacher’s asses.
The red and blues, 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?
[Chorus]
We are the next generation, we ain’t scared to die.
The only thing i fear is the afterlife.
‘Cause I don’t know what’s there on the other side,
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try.[/CUT]
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We are the next generation, we ain’t scared to die.
The only thing i fear is the afterlife.
‘Cause I don’t know what’s there on the other side,
But I pray the Lord forgives me, gives me one more try. ——————– wow… nice lyrics…
Hi Wyclef, could you help me find a friendly literary agent to take a look at one of my manuscripts? This one is entitled “Tearful is The Dream.” It’s about the plight of three African American folks in search of the American dream.
Will somebody help me get this memo to you? I don’t know? Will you ever read it? I can’t tell. Will you help me find an agent? I hope so, and I pray Gos that you will.
Hips don’t lie never repeat in the again in the following days of the world music and no one can stand in the place of Shakira .Never was and never will be.In 2001 she said that i am under the wings of Britny Spears but in these days all of the singers and bands are under her wings that opened with ojas asi and … .
The history never be repeated and she is alive for all time.
Khejri@gmail.com
hips dont lie shakira
wyclef don`t scared of death. he is scared of after life . i would like to ask wyclef a question. if whyclef die whright now does he think he will be saved
My name is Makinzy Robert a native haitian was in bonbardopolis haiti and also a guitarist My suggestion is most people don`t scared of death but they scared of after death. I think you can have alot of money and proberties but you are not a rich person. Here is the reason why when you die you will be gone with nothing at all. You wil leave everything for the next genaration. if you die with jesus you would die very rich but if you died without jesus you would poorly die , even you were a billionnaire or boujoizie. I would like to tell you to beleive and stay away from sins if you commit sins some times but keep this in mind jesus can restore your life if you recognize you sins. remenber you don`t so pleinty of time to be .staying in the earth but do your best in orther for you to be saved. makinzy21@unvision.com