keep ya head up
"Keep Ya Head Up" is a song by Tupac Shakur. It addresses issues concerning lack of [respect] toward the [female] [gender], especially poor black women. It has a very positive message, and is often used as an example of Shakur's softer side. Many consider it to be one of the deepest rap songs ever made and is often referenced by other artists in their work, building Shakur's persona as a very conscious and influential rapper, being 2Pac's second greatest song, after Dear Mama, voted #11 in the 100 Greatest Rap Songs, with "Dear Mama" voted #4.
Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots I give a holler to my sisters on [welfare] Tupac cares, and don't nobody else care And uhh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot When you come around the block brothas [clown] a lot But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, [girl] keep your head up And when he tells you you [ain]'t nuttin don't believe him And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him Cause sista you don't need him And I ain't tryin to [gas] ya up, I just call [em] how I see [em] You know it makes me unhappy (what's that) When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy And since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's [time] to kill for our women [Time] to heal our women, be real to our women And if we don't we'll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies, that make the babies And since a man can't make [one] He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create [one] So will the real men get up I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up Keep ya head up
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