Keep Ya Head Up Lyrics - Ann Nesby

What up lil' man? What's the matter? 

I wish I didn't have to be here 

It's not that bad, it could always be worse, you know what I'm sayin'? 

All you gotta do is stay in school 

Anything you wanna do you could do you know what I'm sayin' baby? 

No matter what though you gotta keep your head up to the sky 

This goes out to all the infants 

In this cold world that was born addicted 

And to all the section eight kids 

Just remember these four words y'all we gon' make it 

The government keep on tryin' to fool us 

The system, keep on tryin' to lose us 

And all we can do is keep buyin' computers 

And [Incomprehensible] all now 'fore it start goin' down 

We gotta hold our head, keep our pride 

Though it hurts when I see people sleep outside 

Little babies with no socks on, eatin' popcorn 

We all know what they moms and they pops on 

Out go the love when the drugs come 

They never got nuttin' for Christmas and they ain't Muslim 

This is a jewel, a lot of us was them 

This is a jewel, a lot of us was them 

Your head to the sky 

You can win as long as you keep 

Your head to the sky 

Uh, to my lock down niggaz keep your head in the sky 

To my shot down niggaz keep your head in the sky 

I don't know if it's better to ride or better to die 

And that's why there's red in my eye 

'Cause people don't know what the ghetto is like 

Either you make it out, or the terrible life 

I don't wanna be a broke bastard and everybody in the hood 

Got somebody in they fam' with a coke habit 

You work for minimum wage 

I'ma get in the game, get shot or a bid in the cage 

It's a risk I gotta take and I'ma be the nigga 

With the bricks and the stash and the biscuit outta state 

And even though I'm blessed with the gift 

I gotta move 'cause the pain and the sickness gotta wait 

I go extremely hard why let up? 

And I can breathe long as I keep my head up 

Your head to the sky 

You can win as long as you keep 

Your head to the sky 

Aiyyo I come from a place where it's three strikes out 

And your life's on the line, so we iced out 

Summertime gettin' money, three dice out 

Tanktops and jean shorts, we Niked out 

Headbands and four wheelers 

Jeeps and Coupes and Convos about who know more killers 

It's all wrong but it's all right 

It's a small world, matter of fact it's a small life 

We all trip but the way to survive 

Is hold your head and make sure you fall right 

And it's a quite fact, that whatever goes around comes right back 

It's just like that 

And we tryin' to touch major paper 

Everybody in the struggle, it gets greater later 

Never say can't, it's better to try 

And you can breathe long as you keep your head to the sky 

Don't you let nobody stop you, mmm 

Hey, hey, yeah 

Your head to the sky 

You can win as long as you keep 

Your head to the sky 

Your head to the sky 

You can win as long as you keep 

Your head to the sky 

Don't look back, no time for looking back 

Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta go on, hey hey hey 

[Incomprehensible], hey hey hey hey hey hey 

Keep on, keep on, keep on, no, yeah 

Your head to the sky 

You can win as long as you keep 

Your head to the sky 

Your head to the sky 

You can win as long as you keep 

Your head to the sky 

No time for looking back, hey 

No matter what's going on before you 

Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on, hey hey hey hey yeah 

Be optimistic, yeah 

Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta go 

Thanks I needed that 

I got you, we gon' make it