Akon - Show Up lyrics

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Feat. Og Boodirty

mama hold her head and cry

Cause her son had been shut down in 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 dont cares

And then I spoke to an OG

I tried to tell it to come to me

I said these streets suck the love right from your heart

Don’t believe that bullshit

You know god damn well

That these niggaz won’t show up

oh no no no

You know god damn well

These bitches will go up

oh no no no

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

If there’s a problem in the hood

They’re about to gather

Just to solve that problem

But that’s the problem in the hood

No one comes together unless you’re involved violence

Cause we were taught to be the tough guys

And we were told just to remake silence

The you got them niggaz 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

oh no no no

Is there a problem that I haven’t heard about?

oh no no no

Kids are robbin’ each other

pimps,Prostitues and drug dealers

We won’t get much futher unless we start to help each other

But they’re none believers

You know god damn well

That these niggaz won’t show up

oh no no no

You know god damn well that these bitches won’t grow up

oh no no no

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

Rule 16, brothers with no fathers

out of 16,14 brothers now

Too much school to get a degree

one went in jail

Others stuck on the streets

Damn, so nobody really made it out

You better celebrate just to get her out

Momma worked at 2 jobs while babysitting

And all these hoes around diggin’ me with no shovels

You know god damn well

That these niggaz won’t show up

oh no no no

You know god damn well that these bitches won’t grow up

oh no no no

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

Thanks to oscar for correcting these lyrics