[Akon] Mama hold her head and cry Cause her son had been shut down on the streets and died Oh why oh why? Is what she cries She cries. The biggest problems in the cities Is them daddies ain't there And if it ain't about the money Then nobody don't care And then I spoke to an OG trying ment to me said boy these streets s** the love right out your heart So don't believe that bullsh**. You know god damn well these n***az won't show up (oh no no noo) know god damn well These b**hes will grow up I'm sinking down to the ground of the ghettos We can't get no lower So I' m askin' God How we can dig ourselves out? We can't afford a shovel If there's a problem in the hood everybody comes together Just to solve that problem But that's the problem in the hood No one comes together unless she involved violence Cause we were taught to be the tough guys And we were told just to remake silence The you got them n***az telling on the next guys Stand and tell them what it takes to solve them Is there a problem that I don't know about? Is there a problem that I haven't heard about? Sad sick kids are robbin each other Prostitues and drug dealers We won't get much further unless we start helping each other But they're none believers will say You know god damn well That these n***az won't show up You know god damn well that these b**hes won't grow up I'm sinking down to the ground of the ghettos We can't get no lower So I' m asking God How we can dig ourselves out? We can't afford a shovel [OG Boo Dirty] Rule 16, brothers with no fathers around ever 16, 14 brothers now Too much school to get a degree one with the jelle Others was thuggin on the streets Damn, so nobody really made it out You better celebrate just to get her health Momma worked at 2 jobs while babysitting hard name we wanna see ma daddy when we was in a drill life crazy can't disguise since work whit the shovel And all these hoes around diggin' me with no shovels [Akon] You know god damn well That these n***az won't show up You know god damn well that these b**hes won't grow up I'm sinking down to the ground of the ghettos We can't get no love up So I' m askin' God How we can dig ourselves out? We can't afford a shovel.