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