The System Lyrics

[Chorus]
Dre Skull, wha' di system do fi ghetto youth? Nothing
Wha' dem do fi ghetto youth? Nothing

Every day another mother bawl
Dem don't do nothing at all, yeah
We've been suffering from we small


[Verse 2]
So
If we sell weed, a problem that
If we do a robbery, a problem that

The whole world a pray fi the problem stop
Nobody don't cater fi solving that

Innocent youth a receive gunshot
Mama haffi dress up inna white and black

Oh God...
Me tired fi go a Dovecot


[Outro]
Ghetto youth...
Believe in yourself, -self, -self
Ghetto youth...
Believe in yourself, be a man
Ghetto youth...
Believe in yourself, be a man
Believe in yourself, -self, -self
Believe in yourself, be a man
Believe in yourself, yourself, yourself
Believe in yourself, be a man

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This is Popcaan’s version of the Loudspeaker riddim, where he abandons his typical “Ravin King” attitude for a more conscious look at his environment.

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What has Popcaan said about this song?
Genius Answer

“System” is a song that I created after I started seeing how much I like music. I opened up my eyes to a lot of things, because when you’re just out as a youth in the ghetto you don’t really exposed to certain things. Music showed me where so much youth can get help from other people or from the government and them choose not to. Them choose not to know, you know, they choose hate themselves or them choose to rob something. “System” is about that, is about system in the ghetto where they bullied you if you do them things to dem there and peer pressure. Popcaan support no system and I don’t want to be no down. You see me? Means a God in the Earth. Me deal with all of my youths then equal. All of them are family – me don’t want run no system and have people do things that they don’t want do.

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Release Date
May 18, 2012
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