Hold Ya Head

[00:04.50] My homeboys in Clinton And Rikers Island
[00:08.16] All the penitentiaries
[00:09.53] Mumia, Mutulu, Geronimo Pratt
[00:11.66] All the political Prisoners
[00:13.22] San Quinton
[00:14.85] All the jailhouses
[00:17.25] I'm with you
[00:18.48] Yeah
[00:19.88] One Thug, One Thug
[00:22.36] How do we keep the music playing
[00:25.27] One Thug, One Thug
[00:29.96] I wake up early in the morning
[00:31.62] Mind state so military
[00:33.01] Suckas fantasizing
[00:33.95] Pictures of a young brother buried
[00:35.44] Was it me
[00:36.19] The Weed
[00:37.05] Or this life I lead
[00:38.29] If daytime is for suckas then tonight we breathe
[00:40.92] Out for all that
[00:41.98] Knowing that this world brings drawbacks
[00:44.13] Look how they shiver
[00:45.48] Once I deliver these war raps
[00:46.75] Meet me at the cemetery dressed in black
[00:49.03] Tonight we
[00:49.87] Honor the dead, those who won't be back
[00:51.87] So if I die do the same for me
[00:53.85] Shed no tears
[00:54.66] An Outlaw, thug living in this game for years
[00:57.46] Why worry?
[00:58.15] Hope to God
[00:59.06] Get me high when I'm buried
[01:00.22] Knowing deep inside only a few love me
[01:02.69] Don't rush me through the gates of heaven
[01:04.43] Let me picture for a while
[01:06.05] How I lived from my days as a child
[01:07.84] I wonder now
[01:09.09] How do we outlast, always get cash
[01:12.03] Stay strong if we all mash
[01:13.53] Hold Your head
[01:16.45] How do we keep the music playing
[01:19.90] (You got to hold your head)
[01:20.88] How do we get ahead
[01:24.87] (Hold your head)
[01:26.02] Too many young black brothers are dying
[01:30.23] (You got to hold your head)
[01:31.52] Living fast, too fast
[01:34.71] (Hahaha)
[01:35.89] These felonies be like prophecies
[01:37.91] Begging me to stop
[01:39.03] Cause these lawyers getting money every time they knock us
[01:41.67] Snatch they pockets lyrically
[01:43.25] Suckas flee when they notice
[01:44.42] Switched my name to Makaveli
[01:45.72] Had the rap game closed
[01:47.28] Expose foes, with my hocus pocus flows, they froze
[01:50.09] Now suckas idolize my chosen blows
[01:52.40] And more money, mean litigating
[01:54.23] More playa hating
[01:55.86] Got a cell at the Penn for me waiting
[01:57.66] Is this my fate?
[01:58.79] Miss me with that misdemeanor thinking
[02:00.82] We fall back
[02:02.08] Never had too much Tequilla drinking
[02:03.38] We all that
[02:04.16] Make them understand me
[02:05.23] You lie to say my posse
[02:06.53] Everyone roll with me is family
[02:08.04] Cause every bodies got me
[02:09.47] Watch me paint a perfect vision
[02:11.16] This life we living
[02:12.20] Got us all meeting up in prison
[02:13.99] Last week I got a letter from my road dog
[02:16.63] Written in blood
[02:17.86] Saying Please show a young playa love
[02:19.90] Hold your head
[02:20.77] Hold it
[02:21.68] How do we keep the music playing
[02:25.61] (You got to hold your head)
[02:26.57] How do we get ahead
[02:30.40] (C'Mon, Hold your head)
[02:32.16] Too many young black brothers are dying
[02:36.14] (Yes, hold hold your head)
[02:37.65] Living fast, too fast
[02:40.68] (Weed got me thinking in my mind)
[02:42.57] God bless the child that can hold is own
[02:44.84] Indeed
[02:46.07] Enemies bleed when I hold my chrome
[02:47.77] Let these words be the last
[02:49.48] To my unborn seeds
[02:50.33] Hope to raise my young nation in this world of greed
[02:53.43] Currency means nothing if you still ain't free
[02:56.28] Money breeds jealousy, take the game from me
[02:58.86] I hope for better days
[02:59.92] Trouble comes naturally
[03:01.27] Running from authorities
[03:03.02] Till they capture me
[03:04.46] And my aim, is to spread more smiles than tears
[03:07.10] Utilize lessons learned from my childhood years
[03:09.97] Maybe mama had it all right
[03:11.53] Rest your head
[03:12.76] Straight conversation all night
[03:14.56] Bless the dead
[03:15.41] To the homies that I used to have
[03:17.39] That no longer roll
[03:18.13] Catch a brother at the crossroads
[03:19.92] Plus, nobody knows my soul
[03:22.97] Watching time pass
[03:24.12] Through the glass of my drop top Rolls
[03:26.13] Hold your head
[03:27.64] How do we keep the music playing
[03:30.53] (You got to hold your head)
[03:33.19] How do we get ahead
[03:36.89] (No matter how hard it gets, feel me, c'mon)
[03:38.49] (Hold your head)
[03:39.36] Too many young black brothers are dying
[03:42.26] (Smoke some weed, drink a drink, read a book,
[03:43.63] Watch the stars, get some pussy, whatever)
[03:46.34] Living fast, too fast
[03:48.24] How do we keep the music playing
[03:53.42] (Yes, you got to hold your head)
[03:55.17] How do we get ahead
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