Keep Ya Head Up Lyrics

Keep Ya Head Up lyrics

Little something for my god son Elija and a little girl named Koreem

Some
say tha Blacker tha berry
Tha sweeter tha juice
I say, tha darker tha
flesh and tha deeper tha roots
I give a hollar to my sisters on
welfare
Tupac cares, but don't nobody else care
I know they like ta beat
ya down a lot
And when ya come around tha block brothers clown a lot
But
please don't cry, dry ya eyes
Never let up
Forgive but don't forget girl
keep ya head up
And when he tells you you ain't nothin
Don't believe
him
And if he can't learn ta love ya, you should leave him
Cuz sister you
don't need him
I ain't tryin ta gash up, but I just callem how I see
'em
Ya know what makes me unhappy
When brothers make babies
And leave
a young mother ta be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our
name from a woman
And out game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our
women
Why we rape our women
Do we hate our women ?
I think it's time ta
kill for our women
Time ta heal our women
Be real to our women
And if
we don't
We'll have a race of babies
That hate tha ladies that make tha
babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right ta tell a woman
when and where ta create one
So will tha real men get up
I know your fed
up ladies
But keep ya head up



Chorus
Eeewww child things
are gonna get easier
Eeewww child things are gonna get
brighter


Eeewww child things are gonna get easier
Eeewww child
things are gonna get brighter


I remember Marvin Gay, usta sing ta
me
He had me feelin like black was tha thing ta be
And suddenly tha
ghetto didn't seem so tuff
I thought we had it rough, we always had
enough
I often huffed and puffed about my curfew and broke tha rules
Ran
with tha local crew and had a smoke or two
And realize momma really paid tha
price
She nearly gave her life, ta raise me right
And all I had ta give
her was my pipe dreams
Of how i'd rock tha mic and make it to tha big
screen
I'm tryin ta make a dollar out of fifteen cents
It's hard ta be
legit and still pay tha rent
And in tha end it seems i'm headin for tha
penn
I try and find my friends, but they're blowin in tha wind
Last night
my buddy lost his whole family
It's gonna take tha man in me
Ta conquer
this insanity
It seems tha rain will never let up
I try ta Keep My Head
Up and still keep from getting wet up
You know it's funny when it rains it
pours
They got money for wars, but can't feed tha poor
Sad there ain't no
hope for tha youth and tha truth is
There ain't no hope for tha future
And
then they wonder why we crazy
I blame my mother, for turning my brother into
a crack baby
We ain't meant ta survive, cause it's a setup
And even
though ya fed up
Ya got ta Keep Ya Head Up