Little somethin' for my godson and a little girl named Corinne
say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the the roots I give a to my sisters on welfare Tupac cares, if don't else care And uh, I they like to beat ya down a lot When you around the block brothas clown a lot But please don't cry, dry your eyes, let up Forgive but forget, girl keep your head up And when he tells you you nuttin' don't believe him And if he can't learn to you you should leave him sista you don't need him And I ain't tryin' to gas ya up, I call em how I see em You it makes me unhappy (what's that) When brothas make babies, and leave a young to be a pappy And since we all from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a I wonder why we take from our Why we our women, do we hate our women? I it's time to kill for our women Time to heal our women, be real to our And if we we'll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies, that make the And a man can't make one He has no right to tell a woman and where to create one So will the men get up I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your up
Keep ya head up, ooh child things are get easier Ooh child things are get brighter
Keep ya up, ooh child things are gonna get easier Ooh child things are get brighter
Aiyyo, I remember Marvin Gaye, used to ta me He had me like black was tha thing to be And suddenly tha ghetto seem so tough And though we had it rough, we always had I huffed and puffed about my curfew and the rules Ran with the crew, and had a smoke or two And I realize momma really the price She gave her life, to raise me right And all I had ta her was my pipe dream Of how I'd rock the mic, and make it to tha bright I'm tryin' to a dollar out of fifteen cents hard to be legit and still pay tha rent And in the end it I'm headin' for tha pen I try and find my friends, but they're blowin in the Last night my buddy lost his family It's gonna the man in me to conquer this insanity It seems tha rain'll let up I try to keep my head up, and still from gettin wet up You know it's funny when it rains it They got for wars, but can't feed the poor Say there ain't no for the youth and the truth is It ain't no hope for tha And then they wonder why we I blame my mother, for turning my brother a crack baby We meant to survive, cause it's a setup And though you're fed up Huh, ya got to your head up
Keep ya up, ooh child things are gonna get easier Ooh child are gonna get brighter
And uh To all the ladies babies on they own I it's kinda rough and you're feelin' all alone Daddy's long and he left you by ya lonesome Thank the Lord for my kids, if nobody else want em Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I'm And if you fall, stand tall and for more Cause ain't nothin' worse when your son Wants to kno' why his don't love him no mo' You complain you was dealt this of a hand without a man, feelin' helpless Because there's too things for you to deal with inside, but outside you're looking fearless While tears, is rollin' down your Ya hopin' things don't all down this week Cause if it did, you couldn't take it, and blame me I was given world I didn't make it And now my son's gettin' older and and cold havin' the world on his shoulders While the rich kids is Benz I'm still tryin' to hold on to my friends And it's crazy, it seems never let up, but Please, you got to keep head up