Little somethin' for my godson and a little girl named Corinne
say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the the flesh then the deeper the roots I give a to my sisters on welfare Tupac cares, if don't nobody else And uh, I know they like to ya down a lot When you come around the brothas clown a lot But please cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but forget, girl keep your head up And when he tells you you ain't don't believe him And if he learn to love 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 mother to be a pappy And since we all came a woman Got our name from a woman and our game a woman I why we take from our women Why we rape our women, do we our women? I think it's time to for our women Time to heal our women, be to our women And if we we'll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies, make the babies And since a man can't one He has no right to tell a woman when and to create one So will the men get up I know you're fed up ladies, but your head up
Keep ya up, ooh child things are gonna get easier Ooh child things are get brighter
Keep ya head up, ooh child are gonna get easier Ooh child things are get brighter
Aiyyo, I Marvin Gaye, used to sing ta me He had me feelin' black was tha thing to be And suddenly tha ghetto didn't so tough And though we had it rough, we always had I huffed and puffed my curfew and broke the rules Ran with the crew, and had a smoke or two And I realize momma paid the price She nearly gave her life, to me right And all I had ta give her was my dream Of how I'd rock the mic, and make it to tha bright I'm tryin' to make a dollar out of fifteen It's hard to be and still 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 Last night my buddy lost his whole It's gonna take the man in me to conquer insanity It seems tha rain'll let up I try to keep my head up, and keep 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 no hope for the youth and the truth is It no hope for tha future And they wonder why we crazy I blame my mother, for turning my brother into a crack We ain't meant to survive, it's a setup And though you're fed up Huh, ya got to keep head up
Keep ya head up, ooh child things are gonna get Ooh child things are gonna get
And uh To all the ladies havin' on they own I know kinda rough and you're feelin' all alone Daddy's long and he left you by ya lonesome Thank the 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 comeback for Cause ain't nothin' worse than your son Wants to why his daddy don't love him no mo' You can't complain you was this Hell of a hand a man, feelin' helpless there's too many things for you to deal with Dying inside, but you're looking fearless tears, is rollin' down your cheeks Ya steady hopin' don't all down this week Cause if it did, you take it, and don't blame me I was given this world I make it And now my son's older and older and cold From the world on his shoulders the rich kids is drivin' Benz I'm still tryin' to on to my survivin' friends And it's crazy, it it'll never let up, but Please, you got to keep head up