Little for my godson Elijah and a little girl named Corinne
say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the I give a holler to my on welfare cares, if don't nobody else care And uh, I know like to beat ya down a lot When you come around the block brothas a lot But don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl your head up And when he tells you you ain't nuttin' believe him And if he learn to love you you should leave him Cause sista you need him And I ain't to gas ya up, I just call em how I see em You know it makes me (what's that) When make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy And since we all came from a Got our from a woman and our game from a woman I why we take from our women Why we rape our women, do we hate our I it's time to kill for our women Time to heal our women, be real to our And if we don't have a race of babies That will hate the ladies, that the babies And since a man can't one He has no to tell a woman when and where to create one So the real men get up I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your up
Keep ya head up, ooh things are gonna get easier Ooh things are gonna get brighter
ya head up, ooh child things are gonna get easier Ooh child things are gonna get
Aiyyo, I remember Marvin Gaye, used to ta me He had me feelin' like black was tha to be And suddenly tha didn't 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 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 the mic, and make it to tha bright screen I'm tryin' to a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be and still pay tha rent And in the end it I'm headin' for tha pen I try and find my friends, but blowin in the wind night my buddy lost his whole family It's gonna take the man in me to this insanity It seems tha rain'll let up I try to keep my head up, and still keep gettin wet up You know it's funny it rains it pours They got for wars, but can't feed the poor Say there ain't no 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 baby We ain't to survive, cause it's a setup And though you're fed up Huh, ya got to keep your up
Keep ya head up, ooh child are gonna get easier Ooh child things are gonna get
And uh To all the havin' babies on they own I know it's kinda and you're feelin' all alone Daddy's long gone and he left you by ya the Lord for my kids, even if nobody else want em Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I'm And if you fall, tall and comeback for more Cause ain't nothin' worse than when son Wants to kno' why his don't love him no mo' You can't complain you was dealt 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' your cheeks Ya hopin' things 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 gettin' older and older and cold From the world on his shoulders While the kids is drivin' Benz I'm still to hold on to my survivin' friends And it's crazy, it it'll never let up, but Please, you got to keep head up