"Keep
Ya Head Up" is a song by Tupac Shakur. It addresses issues concerning lack of respect toward the female
gender, especially
poor black women. It has a very positive message, and is often used as an example of Shakur's softer side. Many consider it to be one of the deepest rap songs ever made and is often referenced by other artists in their
work, building Shakur's persona as a very conscious and influential rapper, being 2Pac's second greatest song, after Dear Mama, voted #11 in the 100 Greatest Rap Songs, with "Dear Mama" voted #
4.
Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots
I give a holler to my sisters on welfare
Tupac cares, and
don't nobody else care
And uhh, I know they like to
beat ya down a lot
When you come around the block brothas
clown a lot
But please
don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but
don't forget, girl keep your head up
And when he tells you you ain't nuttin
don't believe him
And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him
Cause sista you
don't need him
And I ain't tryin to gas ya up, I just call em how I see em
You know it makes me unhappy (what's that)
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we
don't we'll have a race of babies
That
will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So
will the real
men get up
I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up
Keep ya head up