Keep Ya Head Up

Classic

Aye

I know ya fed up

And life won't let you kick your leg up

But when it all falls down, my ****

Keep ya head up

I remember havin' trouble tryin' to get my bread up

I do

Feelin' like God let me down, but I never let up

We made it through the struggle, bills late, playin' catch up

Always had hotdogs, but couldn't keep ketchup

Heatin' up the house with the same oven that fed us

Too broke to catch a cold, and then got it to get a check up

Government assistance keep us in these conditions

It's hard to keep fightin' this system when it's against us

Drug dealers ain't no different from politicians

Benefiting from bad conditions, it's common interest

**** get accustomed to failure, feelin' fed up

When good things happen, we always think it's a set up

But God ain't tell us

What?

Our parents gon' fail us

But no matter what you goin' through

You got to keep ya head up

Aye

You got to keep ya head up

You know

Talk to 'em

To my brown-skin girls with thick thighs and curls

Don't ever let 'em tell you to settle, you run the world, yeah

Other women mimic your image and get the credit, credit

There's magic in that melanin, baby, don't you forget it

Please

I know you wake up some days and don't feel accepted

And it's hard to let down your guard, 'cause you've been neglected

Your dad left and ever since you aint feel protected

And these **** ain't men like him, so you don't respect them

You don't get accustomed to failure, feelin' fed up

'Cause every time they try to catch you out, it's when you step up

Life gon' stress us, then it's gon' bless us

But no matter what you goin' though

You got to keep ya head up