[00:00.00]Gotta Stay Strong - Gravediggaz
[00:03.41]Yo yo check it
[00:06.76]Yo for real coming atcha
[00:12.64]Yo it's like this yo
[00:20.25]Never give up never give up never give up
[00:22.82]Keep holding on gotta stay strong
[00:27.66]Keep your head up hung
[00:29.13]Yo what you say to a brother
[00:31.01]When he straight up wrong
[00:32.07]If you feel you all that then lets get it on
[00:34.43]I got no time for the b******t
[00:35.78]I'm quick to snap
[00:36.84]But if worse come to worse
[00:38.26]I whip out the gat
[00:39.36]Back down from no man
[00:40.70]I'm a brother with heart
[00:41.64]But I'd rather build first mad swift with darts
[00:44.22]Street brother with knowledge of self at nineteen
[00:46.88]Same jam master a hundred twenty degrees
[00:49.20]Been around for a minute in a land of gold
[00:51.71]Brooklyn East New York where I started to flow
[00:54.20]Coup Devilles rag time bottles with bells
[00:56.70]Feel me phat Caddy's like Sam Cassell
[00:59.10]Mad brothers my block was a flock of black sheeps
[01:01.81]Wasn't a house ni**a so we house the streets
[01:04.07]Getting knocked by the cops now and then we pop
[01:06.60]Few shots in the air let 'em know we was here
[01:09.05]Time flew but now I'm getting better with age
[01:11.48]Flip a new page time to unleash my rage
[01:13.93]Never give up never give up never give up
[01:16.97]Keep holding on gotta stay strong
[01:22.02]Keep your head up hung
[01:23.60]Yo look in my eyes
[01:25.08]Tell me what you see in the dark
[01:26.59]Want a move me out my seat like Rosa Parks
[01:28.86]Mentally enslaved brothers never change they ways
[01:31.27]Exploit the youth
[01:32.33]Now my vibes negative grips
[01:34.03]Buying in to the fake graph maternity stamps
[01:36.42]Cash it while I f**k it
[01:37.77]Yo I'll see you tomorrow
[01:38.87]Black woman you a queen
[01:40.15]But I doubt your strength
[01:41.27]Watching the two f**king
[01:42.48]Run around half nude
[01:43.54]Flashing guns and clips
[01:44.95]Diamonds and phat rocks
[01:46.25]African brothers died on them chopping blocks
[01:48.86]Don't despair now you wanna cover your ear
[01:51.22]Monkey see monkey do
[01:52.44]F**k wrong with you
[01:53.79]In fifty states you cats can't carry the weight
[01:56.01]Wanna mention
[01:56.83]What ya'll need special attention
[01:58.72]Never degraded my race
[01:59.87]Come face to face
[02:01.09]Rappers more of a joke then a ray of hope
[02:03.53]I ain't sitting on my a** just to turn my cheek
[02:06.00]Hip-hop be the art and I'm the masterpiece
[02:08.56]You cats with fake images watch your back
[02:11.14]Practice what you preach
[02:12.32]Cause that sh*t is wack
[02:13.56]Never give up never give up never give up
[02:16.57]Keep holding on gotta stay strong
[02:21.44]Keep your head up hung
[02:23.06]But what you mean you ain't down
[02:24.77]You ain't rolling with us
[02:25.89]Cause you living mad large
[02:27.08]And your crib is plush
[02:28.27]Must've forgot
[02:29.24]You the same little crab from the wood
[02:30.87]Punk from the hood
[02:31.78]Fronting like this sh*t all good
[02:33.21]Moving up in the world even switch the gas
[02:35.86]But you know to this day
[02:37.05]I still whip that a**
[02:38.18]Ain't nothing change
[02:39.01]Nothing but the time of the year
[02:40.68]Still trot through the hood like Paul Revere
[02:43.23]Vision my vise my peeps is black and dilated
[02:45.43]Brothers quick to cross the streets intimidated
[02:48.38]Ain't my fault cause I got that New York walk
[02:50.57]New York talk blame it on society's fault
[02:52.98]Brothers stay bebbed up I'm prepared caliss
[02:55.46]Ready to give my life because I'm doing a bit
[02:57.91]Bagged the eighth
[02:58.88]Figured it was worth the weight
[03:00.23]Crack a bottle over the head of your fake role models
[03:03.04]Biting the such of must
[03:04.18]Give up ways and plus
[03:05.37]I be damned if I let the song self distruct
[03:07.86]Yo never give up never give up never give up
[03:10.90]Keep holding on gotta stay strong keep your head up hung
[03:18.36]Never give up never give up never give up
[03:20.81]Keep holding on gotta stay strong keep your head up hung