Gotta Stay Strong - Gravediggaz
Yo yo check it
Yo for real coming atcha
Yo it's like this yo
Never give up never give up never give up
Keep holding on gotta stay strong
Keep your head up hung
Yo what you say to a brother
When he straight up wrong
If you feel you all that then lets get it on
I got no time for the b******t
I'm quick to snap
But if worse come to worse
I whip out the gat
Back down from no man
I'm a brother with heart
But I'd rather build first mad swift with darts
Street brother with knowledge of self at nineteen
Same jam master a hundred twenty degrees
Been around for a minute in a land of gold
Brooklyn East New York where I started to flow
Coup Devilles rag time bottles with bells
Feel me phat Caddy's like Sam Cassell
Mad brothers my block was a flock of black sheeps
Wasn't a house ni**a so we house the streets
Getting knocked by the cops now and then we pop
Few shots in the air let 'em know we was here
Time flew but now I'm getting better with age
Flip a new page time to unleash my rage
Never give up never give up never give up
Keep holding on gotta stay strong
Keep your head up hung
Yo look in my eyes
Tell me what you see in the dark
Want a move me out my seat like Rosa Parks
Mentally enslaved brothers never change they ways
Exploit the youth
Now my vibes negative grips
Buying in to the fake graph maternity stamps
Cash it while I f**k it
Yo I'll see you tomorrow
Black woman you a queen
But I doubt your strength
Watching the two f**king
Run around half nude
Flashing guns and clips
Diamonds and phat rocks
African brothers died on them chopping blocks
Don't despair now you wanna cover your ear
Monkey see monkey do
F**k wrong with you
In fifty states you cats can't carry the weight
Wanna mention
What ya'll need special attention
Never degraded my race
Come face to face
Rappers more of a joke then a ray of hope
I ain't sitting on my a** just to turn my cheek
Hip-hop be the art and I'm the masterpiece
You cats with fake images watch your back
Practice what you preach
Cause that sh*t is wack
Never give up never give up never give up
Keep holding on gotta stay strong
Keep your head up hung
But what you mean you ain't down
You ain't rolling with us
Cause you living mad large
And your crib is plush
Must've forgot
You the same little crab from the wood
Punk from the hood
Fronting like this sh*t all good
Moving up in the world even switch the gas
But you know to this day
I still whip that a**
Ain't nothing change
Nothing but the time of the year
Still trot through the hood like Paul Revere
Vision my vise my peeps is black and dilated
Brothers quick to cross the streets intimidated
Ain't my fault cause I got that New York walk
New York talk blame it on society's fault
Brothers stay bebbed up I'm prepared caliss
Ready to give my life because I'm doing a bit
Bagged the eighth
Figured it was worth the weight
Crack a bottle over the head of your fake role models
Biting the such of must
Give up ways and plus
I be damned if I let the song self distruct
Yo never give up never give up never give up
Keep holding on gotta stay strong keep your head up hung
Never give up never give up never give up
Keep holding on gotta stay strong keep your head up hung