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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Snoop Lion
Performer
Jahdan Blakkamoore
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Snoop Lion
Composer
Thomas Wesley Pentz
Composer
Ariel Rechtshaid
Composer
Andrew Hershey
Composer
Wayne Henry
Lyrics
Andrew Bain
Composer
Jackie Mittoo
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Major Lazer
Producer
Ariel Rechtshaid
Producer
Dre Skull
Producer
Luca Pretolesi
Mixing Engineer
Kevin Seaton
Producer
Nick Rowe
Editing Engineer
Chris Gehringer
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
As I take a look down the boulevard
Full of ghetto youth, life is very hard
So many faces bearing the battle scars
But love I bring to the people
Coming straight from the heart
If crisis is what we see
All over the world is pure controversy
One man can't put the price pon humanity
It seems like the whole world's gone crazy
[Verse 2]
Everybody knows Johnny came from the roughest part of town
Survived the school of hard knocks
But still came up and made his chips
The realest life, never watered down
Walk with a gun through the heart of town
We hearin' bam, bam, bam, a familiar sound
To the youth down in the gully where Johnny born and grow
He never thought that he would make it out
It's like crabs in the barrel down in the STO
[Verse 3]
As I take a look down the boulevard
Full of ghetto youth, life is very hard
So many faces bearing the battle scars
But love I bring to the people
Coming straight from the heart
If crisis what we see
All over the world is a pure controversy
One man can't put the price pon humanity
It seems like the whole world's gone crazy
[Verse 4]
Poor Johnny, Johnny got stuck for his money
Things get funny when you rump with the daddy
Later on the goons pull up in the black Caddy
Next step on the news them find another dead body
Tales from the inner city
We break it right down to the nitty-gritty
Who's responsible for the crime and poverty?
What a tragedy
Why-yo
[Verse 5]
I wish I could singlehandedly free the entire planet
Earth from crime and poverty
That me would a love to see the day
When we burn racism, jealousy and hate, hey-oh
And if everyone should participate
Come into slavery, we would be emancipated
If they make our ends, then cooperate
Not no can stop we from achieving the greatest
[Verse 6]
As I take a look down the boulevard
Full of ghetto youth, life is very hard
So many faces bearing the battle scars
But love I bring to the people
Coming straight from the heart
If crisis what we see
All over the world is a pure controversy
One man can't put the price pon humanity
It seems like the whole world's gone crazy
Hey-yo
Written by: Andrew Bain, Andrew Hershey, Ariel Rechtshaid, Calvin Broadus, Jackie Mittoo, Thomas Wesley Pentz, Wayne Henry