[Intro: Diddy & Jermaine Dupri]
What's going on? (Tell me)
People dying (Yeah)
People crying (Uh-huh)
Lord, help us (C'mon)

[Verse 1: Jagged Edge, Gwen Stefani, Jermaine Dupri, Usher, (Backstreet Boys)]
Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Oh, brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying (That's right)
You know we've got to find a way (Aah, ah, ah, ahh)
To bring some lovin', lovin' here today, yeah

[Verse 2: Nona Gaye, Brian Littrell, Nona Gaye & Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera, (Destiny's Child)]
Oh, my father, father (Father)
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way (Aah, ah, ah, ahh)
To bring some lovin' here today
Eee-ee

[Chorus: T-Boz, Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, Monica, (Destiny's Child)]
Barricades can't block our ways (Sister, sister)
Don't punish me with brutality (Sister, sister)
Talk to me (Sister)
And you will see, yeah (Sister)
What's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)
Yeah, what's going on (What's going on)
Hey-ey, yeah, hey (What's going on)
[Verse 3: Ja Rule, Monica, Beyoncé, Destiny's Child]
What's going on in a world filled with pain (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
Where's the love for which we pray (We pray)
What's going on
When our children can't play (Ah-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya)
Homeless can't eat (Ooh, ooh)
There's got to be a better way (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
What's going on
When we politically blind (Ah-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya)
Can't see the signs of endangered times (Ooh, ooh, ooh, no, oh)
What's going on

[Verse 4: Nelly Furtado, Monica, Destiny's Child, Beyoncé]
Ah, ah (No, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh)
Tell me (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
What's goin' on in the world today (Oh, oh, ooh)
I'd rather be dead
Than turn my head away (Oh, oh, oh)
We got a first world vision
Too comfy to lift up our hands in the air (Oh, oh, oh)
And cry for a switch

[Verse 5: Jagged Edge, Alicia Keys, JC Chasez & *NSYNC, Mary J. Blige, (Diddy)]
Father, father (Father, help us, come on)
Everybody thinks we're wrong, oh, ooh
Oh, but who are they to judge us
(Who are they to judge us?)
Together we can all be strong, yeah, yes
(United we stand, divided we fall)
Oh, you know we've got to find a way (Ooh, ooh)
To bring some understanding here today, oh (Ooh, ooh)
[Chorus: Justin Timberlake, Usher, *NSYNC, Mary J. Blige]
Barricades can't block our way (Brother, brother)
Don't punish me with brutality (Brother, brother)
Come on, talk to me (Brother)
So, you can see (Oh, oh)
Yeah, what's going on (Oh, ooh)
(What's going on)
Tell me what's going on (Somebody tell me)
What's going on (Somebody tell me)
What's goin' on, yeah, yeah

[Verse 6: Nelly, Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake]
What's going on 'cross seas (Ah, ah, ah)
Every minute a child dies by this disease (Oh, ooh)
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 (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Ask them why they don't bother
Oh no, oh no
Make me turn to my father (Ooh)
And ask him why they all got a trapped soul (Yeah, eh)

[Verse 7: Nas, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Alicia Keys, (Justin Timberlake & Usher)]
I can feel what was bothering Marvin (Woo, ooh)
Why his words forever remain (Do-do-do-do)
Dealing with these modern day problems (Wah-ah)
'Cause of ignorance surrounding me and my constituents (Yeah, eh)
Too many infected (Oh, oh)
Too many lives diminishing (Whee, Oh-la-la-la-la)
Nobody say Protestants, Jews, Blacks, and Whites, Latinos and
Asians
Pray together
Less fight
We better unite
As genocide chemical war
And the rich and the poor
Know that God delivers a cure
(Oh, la-la-la-la)
[Verse 8: Eve, Alicia Keys, Lil' Kim]
It's a shame our reality is devastating
People praying for a cure (Oh, la-la-la-la)
Dying while they're waiting
Ask the Lord for the comfort and strength to face it
(Ah-ya-ya-ya-ya)
All the kids with dreams
Won't get the chance to chase it
Makes me sad
Think about the lives they would've had (Do-do-do-do)
Think about the orphan babies got no moms and dads
How can we sit back and not try to make it right (Do-do-do-do, oh, ya-ya-ya)
We gotta come together (Uh uh uh uh)
We gotta fight for life

[Verse 9: Lil' Kim, Christina Aguilera]
See, I come from the streets
A world with racism and poverty
It's hard to make peace (Yeah, ah, ah-ee)
Little girl with big dreams
You don't have to settle (Ooh-oh, ooh)
We gone get out the ghetto
We fight but still things ain't right
Too many dying
Lord knows I keep trying (Ah-ah, ah ah)
You don't know the pain I feel
I miss you B.I.G
Let's find a cure for A.I.D.S, oh

[Hook: Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado, Monica, Beyoncé, (Destiny's Child)]
Oh, what's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)
Whoa, what's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)

[Hook: Jagged Edge, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Destiny's Child]
Hey, hey, hey-ey
What's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)
What's going on (What's going on)
Hey, what's going on (What's going on)

[Outro: Destiny's Child, Diddy & Wyclef Jean]
(Oh, what's going on)
What's going on (What's going on, what's going on)
What's going on (What's going on, what's going on)
What's going on (What's going on, what's going on)