Keep Ya Head Up-Jadakiss

[00:05.92]Whattup little man? What's the matter? [00:08.63]I wish I didn't have to be here [00:10.75]It's not that bad.. [00:12.83]Could always be worse, yaknahmsayin? [00:14.70] [00:15.27]All you gotta do, is stay in school [00:17.33] [00:17.90]Anything you wanna do you could do yaknahmsayin baby? [00:20.66] [00:21.97]No matter what though, gotta keep your head up to the sky [00:24.90] [00:30.19]This goes out to, all the infants [00:32.50]in this cold world that was born addicted [00:34.70]And to all the section eight kids [00:36.76]Just remember these four words y'all - we gon' make it [00:39.27]The government keep on tryin to fool us [00:41.77]The system, keep on tryin to lose us [00:43.89]And all we can do is keep buyin computers [00:46.27]And all now 'fore it start goin down [00:48.52]We gotta hold our head, keep our pride [00:50.83]Though it hurts when I see people sleep outside [00:53.14]Little babies with no socks on, eatin popcorn [00:55.57]We all know what they moms and they pops on [00:58.09]Out go the love when the drugs come [00:59.95]They never got nuttin for Christmas, and they ain't Muslim [01:02.41]This is a jewel, a lot of us was them [01:04.78]This is a jewel, a lot of us was them [01:07.22]Your head to the sky.. my my, my [01:11.66]You can win - you can win - if you keep your head [01:16.34]As long as you keep - your head - your head to the sky [01:19.96] [01:20.66]My my, my.. [01:21.84] [01:22.72]Uhh, to my lockdown ****** keep your head in the sky [01:25.46]To my shot down ****** keep your head in the sky [01:27.71]I don't know if it's better to ride, or better to die [01:30.45]And that's why there's red in my eye [01:32.45]Cause people don't know what the ghetto is like [01:34.51]Either you make it out, or the terrible life [01:36.82]I don't wanna be a broke bastard [01:38.63]And everybody in the hood got somebody in they fam' with a coke habit [01:41.94]You work for minimum wage [01:43.25]I'ma get in the game, get shot or a bid in the cage [01:46.12]It's a risk I gotta take - and I'ma be the ***** [01:48.70]with the bricks and the stash and the biscuit outta state [01:50.95]And even though I'm blessed with the gift [01:52.76]I gotta move cause the pain and the sickness gotta wait [01:55.26]I go extremely hard - why let up? [01:57.57]And I can breathe long as I keep my head up [01:59.48] [02:10.93]Uhh, uhh - uh-huh, uhh - uh.. [02:16.51]Aiyyo I come from a place where it's three strikes out [02:18.50]And your life's on the line, so we iced out [02:20.75]Summertime gettin money, three dice out [02:23.25]Tanktops, and jean shorts, we Niked out [02:25.49]Headbands, and four wheelers [02:27.11]Jeeps and Coupes and convos, about who know more killers [02:30.05]It's all wrong but it's all right [02:32.04]It's a small world; matter fact it's a small life [02:35.06]We all trip but the way to survive [02:36.88]is hold your head and make sure you fall right [02:39.26]And it's a quite fact, that whatever goes around comes right back [02:42.59]It's just like that [02:43.71]And we tryin to touch major paper [02:45.73]Everybody in the struggle it gets greater later [02:48.24]Never say can't, it's better to try [02:50.73]And you can breathe long as you keep your head in the sky [02:52.95] [02:53.73]Don't you let nobody stop you, mm [02:55.32]Heyy, heyyy, yeahhh! [02:57.89]our head to the sky.. my my, my [03:00.89] [03:03.82]You can win - you can win - if you keep your head [03:10.13]As long as you keep - your head - your head to the sky [03:13.95]My my, my.. [03:14.88]As long as you keep - your head - your head to the sky [03:17.70]My my, my.. [03:18.28]Uhh, to my lockdown ****** keep your head in the sky [03:18.72]To my shot down ****** keep your head in the sky [03:19.09]I don't know if it's better to ride, or better to die [03:19.90]And that's why there's red in my eye [03:21.42]Cause people don't know what the ghetto is like [03:22.23]Either you make it out, or the terrible life [03:22.60]I don't wanna be a broke bastard [03:22.85]And everybody in the hood got somebody in they fam' with a coke habit [03:23.35]You work for minimum wage [03:23.55]I'ma get in the game, get shot or a bid in the cage [03:24.04]It's a risk I gotta take - and I'ma be the ***** [03:24.49]with the bricks and the stash and the biscuit outta state [03:24.87]And even though I'm blessed with the gift [03:25.19]I gotta move cause the pain and the sickness gotta wait [03:25.61]I go extremely hard - why let up? [03:25.87]And I can breathe long as I keep my head up [03:26.33]Don't you let nobody stop you, mm [03:26.58]Heyy, heyyy, yeahhh!