Released: September 18, 2005

Songwriter: Marvin Gaye Renaldo Benson Al Cleveland

Producer: Daryl Simmons Wyclef Jean Babyface

[Pharrell]
What's Going On
[P. Diddy]
Somebody Help Me

[Jermaine Dupri]
Tell Me

Pharrell (P. Diddy):
People Dying (Yeah)
People Crying (Uh-huh)
Lord help us (C'mon)

[Greg Page Of the Wiggles]
Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying

[Shakira]
Oh, brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying

[P. Diddy]
That's Right

[Metallica's James Hetfield]
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

[Natalie Cole]
Oh my father, father
We don't need to escalate

[Brandon - Jagged Edge]
You see war is not the answer

[Kenny Lattimore & Chante Moore]
For only love can conquer hate

[Wild Orchid]
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

[Jessica Simpson]
Barricades, can't block our way

[Chilli Of TLC]
Don't punish me with brutality

[Adrienne Bailon]
Talk to me

[Jessica Simpson]
So you can see

[Jessica Simpson/Adrienne Bailon]
(First Chorus)
Oh what's going on
What's going on
Yeah what's going on
Ahh 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 goin' on in the world today
I'd rather be dead than to turn my head away
We got this first world vision too
Comfy to lift up our hands in the air
And cry for a switch

[Dave Grohl]
Mother, Mother

[Pharrell]
Mother help us, come on

[Dave Grohl]
Everybody thinks we're wrong

[Raven Symone]
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long

[Jermaine Durpi]
United we stand, Divided we fall

[Johnny Gill]
Oh you know we've got to find a way

[Keyshia Cole]
To bring some understanding here today

[Brian - Jagged Edge]
Barricades can't block our way

[Wes Scantlin]
Don't punish me with brutality

[Brian - Jagged Edge]
No, 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 momma's 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]
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
As genocide chemical war
And the rich and the poor
Know that God delivers a cure

[Lil' Mama]
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 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

[Rev. Run]
Somebody tell me what's going on (what's going on)
We got human beings using humans for a bomb
But everybody wanna live
Don't nobody really want to die
You feeling me right
I can't be watching people 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

What's going on...[repeat]