It's A New Day - Heavy D. & The Boyz

Yeah, another day in the ghetto

(It's a new day)

Mm, uh, well alright

(It's a new day)

Yeah, another day in the ghetto

(It's a new day)

Uh, yeah, well alright

Niggas killin' niggas whatcha figure with your finger on the trigger

You could be a bigger big-money, big-willy gettin' nigga

It’s a shame the way you live, you give grief

All things must change so when will we have peace

(A piece? of what) Of a mind in this country

I’m really sick and tired of hearin' «Mamma I’m hungry»

Or «Mamma please tell me when will Papa come home?»

Papa never comes home, papa’s a rolling stone

Hey, sometimes I picture selling drugs but then again

I known a friend who sold drugs in the fed pen

So I just sit back and bounce and count the amounts

And young brothers die from a drug dealer’s ounce

Of coke or dope, that some little black kid smoke

Might as well pass a rope, so we can hang ourselves

Get a gat and bang ourselves

Killed another brother, and just damn ourselves

(It's a new day)

Whoo!

Another day in the ghetto (tell 'em)

(It's a new day)

Uh, uh, yeah that’s right

(It's a new day)

Another day in the ghetto

(It's a new day)

Uh, uh

A-yo, black on the block sellin' rocks

He was trapped with a MAC and a baseball cap

To the back, in pursuit of the loot, he was true

With his troop, meet his crew, on the block where they sold

In order to keep in order manslaughter

Pat a brother down, make sure there’s no tape recorder

But yo don’t flex, 'cause here’s what next

X got a Tec and he’s pressed to catch wreck

My mans around the block with a Glock that’s half-cocked

Who care about a cop?

A cop could get popped

Some kids in hoodies had the goodies

Now could he or would he be a part of a neighborhood hood hoodies

'Cause in his mind there’s a picture, of how to get richer

Big dollar signs, numbers and figures

Feelin' kinda bitchy, itchy finger on the trigger

Pop goes a gat, down goes another nigga, on the block

(It's a new day)

That’s how it is, in the ghetto

(It's a new day)

Uh (tell 'em) yeah, another day in the ghetto

(It's a new day)

(Tell 'em) Huh, my, my, my (aww yeah)

(It's a new day)

Uh, yeah, another day in the ghetto

Three in the mornin' everything is going swell

Yo what the hell, that’s the bell

Open up the door, it’s my man, «Yo what’sup pops?»

«Yo Hev I got some bad news, your brothers been shot»

Damn, jetted to the hospital, prayin' for a miracle

Lord I’ll know he’ll make it see, my brother’s kinda physical

Drippin' with sweat, but I won’t tell my moms yet

See moms is under pressure and she’ll just be a wreck

Racin' in the hallway, ran into the doc

«Yo Doc, what’s his chances son?»

(«His chances ain’t a lot»)

Leaped into the room but I can’t describe the pain

See I knew it was my brother but he didn’t look the same

Somehow I got the nerve to put my hands upon his chest

Felt the tear from my eye as I felt breathe

And all I really remembered is the words from my mother

My baby’s gonna die, and now I miss my brother

(It's a new day)

That’s how it is, it’s in the ghetto

(It's a new day)

Yeah

(It's a new day)

You’re hearin' it live

(It's a new day)

From the Heavster

(It's a new day)

Based on a true story

(It's a new day)

About my cousin

(It's a new day)

Tony Meyers

(It's a new day)

Rest in peace

(It's a new day)

From Pete Rock and Heavy D

We love ya, peace

…I make people happy

I’ll tell you something

On the last album, Peaceful Journey

I was going through this real depressing stage

Where it was like, you know I just lost Troy, my dancer T-Roy

My best friend from when I was eight, 17 or 18 years

Prior to that a year, before that, a year prior to that, I lost my older

brother, my oldest brother

This is a man who taught me… everything, basically

Ya know it was my oldest brother and I’m the youngest

He was shot and killed