[P Diddy:]
What’s going on?

[Jermaine Dupri:]
Tell me

[P Diddy:]
People dying (Yeah)
People crying (Uh-huh)
Lord help us (Come on)

[Bono:]
Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying

[Gwen Stefani:]
Oh, brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying

[Jermaine Dupri:]
That's right

[Aaron Lewis:]
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today
[Nona Gaye:]
Oh, my father, father
We don't need to escalate

[Backstreet Boys:]
You see, war is not the answer

[Nona Gaye/Backstreet Boys:]
For only love can conquer hate

[Christina Aguilera:]
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

[Britney Spears:]
Barricades can't block our way

[J-Lo:]
Don't punish me with brutality

[Destiny's Child:]
Talk to me
So you can see

[Destiny's Child/Britney Spears:]
[First Chorus]
Oh, what’s going on?
What’s going on?
Yeah, what’s going on?
What’s going on?
[Ja Rule:]
What’s going on in a world filled with pain?
Where's the love for which we pray?
What’s going on
When our children can't play
Homeless can't eat?
There's got to be a better way
What’s going on
When we politically blind
Can't see the signs of endangered times?
What’s going on?

[Nelly Furtado:]
Ah, ah, tell me
What’s going on in the world today
I'd rather be dead
Than turn my head away
We got a first-world vision
Too comfy to lift our hands in the air
And cry for a switch

[Michael Stipe:]
Father, father

[P Diddy:]
Father, help us, come on
[Michael Stipe:]
Everybody thinks we're wrong

[Alicia Keys:]
Oh, but who are they to judge us?
Together we can all be strong

[P Diddy:]
United we stand, divided we fall

[N'Sync:]
Oh, you know we've got to find a way

[Mary J. Blige:]
To bring some understanding here today

[N'Sync:]
Barricades can't block our way

[Darren Hayes (Savage Garden):]
Don't punish me with brutality

[N'Sync:]
Baby, talk to me
So you can see

[Second Chorus]
Yeah, what’s going on?
Hey, what’s going on?
Somebody, tell me what’s going on?
I'll tell you what's goin' on-uh

[Nelly:]
What’s going on 'cross seas?
Every minute a child dies by this disease
In record numbers indeed
Got mommas crying out, "Please
My baby, hold on"
"My child ain't done nothing wrong"
Still I want to holler
Ask them why they don't bother
Oh no, oh no
Make me turn to my father
And ask him why they all got a trapped soul

[Nas:]
Yo, I can feel what was bothering Marvin
Why his words forever remain
Dealing with these modern-day problems
'Cause of ignorance surrounding me and my constituents
Too many infected
Too many lives diminishing
Nobody say Protestants, Jews, Blacks, and Whites, Latinos and Asians
Pray together
Less fight
We better unite
It’s genocide, chemical war
On the rich and the poor
Know that God delivers a cure

[Eve:]
It's a shame our reality is devastating
People praying for a cure
Dying while they're waiting
Ask the Lord for the comfort and the strength to face it
All the kids with dreams
Won't get the chance to chase it
Makes me sad
Think about the lives they would've had
Think about the orphan babies got no moms and dads
How can we sit back and not try to make it right?
We gotta come together
We gotta fight for life

[Fred Durst:]
Somebody tell me what’s going on?
(What’s going on?)
We got human beings using humans for a bomb
But everyone wanna live
Don't nobody really want to die
You feeling me, right?
I can't be watching people die
(Die)
And watching people cry
Let me break it down for a minute
If there's enough room here for you and for me
There's plenty of room for some humanity

[N'Sync:]
[Outro]
You've got to show me (Show me)
(What’s going on?) What’s going on?