[Intro: Snoop Dogg]

Yo, Doc, what up, my nigga?

Snoop Dogg, this is what it is, mane

This record is so motherfuckin' gangsta, man

I think it's time for me and you to just tone it down a bit

Come on

[Verse 1: Dr. Dre]

Imagine it never happened

Imagine no rappin'

Imagine niggas trapped imagining having action

Imagine how these niggas could be actin' if we never got this shit crackin'

Imagine life so hard

You can't imagine, it's like livin' in the City of God, you feel me?

Imagine life on the yard

Or tryna get that dollar on some shitty-ass job

Imagine Biggie with his son

Imagine Pac gettin' called "Pop" by one

Imagine a mother struggling

Dealing with a system that don't give a fuck about who shot her son, hm

Imagine life where you can't win

When you get out of the ghetto, and go right to the pen

When you get out to the pen, you go right to the gin

So if you get back to the streets, you go right back in, hm

Imagine Russell still struggling

No Def Jam, just another nigga hustlin'

And ain't no rocks on them fellas

Just rocks on them fellas, just tryna keep it bubblin'

Imagine niggas just stuck

From the East to the West Coast, everybody fucked up

I can't imagine no less

But it don't take imagination to know niggas been blessed with hip-hop

[Chorus: D'Angelo]

Before we go, can you imagine?

With your ears, clear your mind, can you imagine?

Paint a picture in the sky, can you imagine? (Oh, hee)

Lord have mercy, I've been dreamin' all my life

[Verse 2: Snoop Dogg]

Can you imagine being lit up by some hot shells?

Imagine being tossed around and put in jail

Imagine life when you can't get from under

Imagine niggas at ya when you done fo'

Remember how they asked you "What you run for?", and treat ya like a bitch

When they kick you in your dick and take your shit

Reactin' like they hate to see you gung-ho

But just imagine if the rabbit got the gun though, but you already know

Imagine niggas in the LBC

Felt just like Snoop Dogg and D-R-E

And felt just like them niggas in the 2-1-3

Then imagine that's what's coming when you fuckin' with me

Imagine you was up on top of this shit

Imagine if the bitches could stay off this dick

I mean, imagine we said "Fuck this shit"

Imagine if my niggas got together and tore up this bitch, yeah

You can't imagine growing up in jail dumb

Happy just to be alive, watching all your people run

Would you imagine growing up to sell you

Fifty-million records worldwide or fuckin' off somebody's son?

Imagine if these niggas never saw a color

Would it be peaceful in them streets, would niggas kill each other?

All a drunk fool get is pissed-on balls

Keep fuckin' off my niggas, they gon' murder us all

Imagine that

[Chorus: D'Angelo]

Before we go, can you imagine?

With your ears, clear your mind, can you imagine?

Paint a picture in the sky, can you imagine? (Oh, hee)

Lord have mercy, I've been dreamin' all my life, all my life

Before we go, can you imagine?

With your ears, clear your mind, can you imagine?

Paint a picture in the sky, can you imagine? (Oh, hee)

Lord have mercy, I've been dreamin' all my life, all my life

[Bridge: D'Angelo]

Imagine, imagine

Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, ow

Can you imagine? Uh

Can you imagine? Hm, ah

Can you imagine?

Imagine, imagine, yeah, ooh

[Outro]

"In the name of Allah, in the name of God

The beneficent, the merciful

The one God to whom all praise is due

Regardless of land, labor, or title

No matter what name you call God by

Whenever life seems hard

Everybody know that you must talk to God"