Keep Ya Head Up - Jadakiss.mp3

[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?
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[00:15.27]All you gotta do, is stay in school
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[00:17.90]Anything you wanna do you could do yaknahmsayin baby?
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[00:21.97]No matter what though, gotta keep your head up to the sky
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[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
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[01:20.66]My my, my..
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[01:22.72]Uhh, to my lockdown ****** keep your head in the sky
[01:25.46]To my shot down ****** 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 *****
[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
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[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
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[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
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[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 ****** keep your head in the sky
[03:18.72]To my shot down ****** 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 *****
[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!