Keep Ya Head Up (Album Version|Explicit)-Jadakiss/Ann Nesby

[ti:Keep Ya Head Up] [ar:Jadakiss] [al:Kiss Tha Game Goodbye] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Uhh to my lockdown niggaz keep your head in the sky [00:00.00]To my shot down niggaz keep your head in the sky [00:00.00]I don't know if it's better to ride or better to die [00:00.00]And that's why there's red in my eye [00:00.00]Cause people don't know what the ghetto is like [00:00.00]Either you make it out or the terrible life [00:00.00]I don't wanna be a broke bastard [00:00.00]And everybody in the hood got somebody in they fam' with a coke habit [00:00.00]You work for minimum wage [00:00.00]I'ma get in the game get shot or a bid in the cage [00:00.00]It's a risk I gotta take - and I'ma be the nigga [00:00.00]With the bricks and the stash and the biscuit outta state [00:00.00]And even though I'm blessed with the gift [00:00.00]I gotta move cause the pain and the sickness gotta wait [00:00.00]I go extremely hard - why let up [00:00.00]And I can breathe long as I keep my head up [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 niggaz keep your head in the sky [01:25.46]To my shot down niggaz 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 nigga [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 [02:52.94] [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 niggaz keep your head in the sky [03:18.72]To my shot down niggaz 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 nigga [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