What up lil' man? What's the matter?

I wish I didn't have to be here

It's not that bad, it could always be worse, you know what I'm sayin'?

All you gotta do is stay in school

Anything you wanna do you could do you know what I'm sayin' baby?

No matter what though you gotta keep your head up to the sky This goes out to all the infants

In this cold world that was born addicted

And to all the section eight kids

Just remember these four words y'all we gon' make it The government keep on tryin' to fool us

The system, keep on tryin' to lose us

And all we can do is keep buyin' computers

And [Incomprehensible] all now 'fore it start goin' down We gotta hold our head, keep our pride

Though it hurts when I see people sleep outside

Little babies with no socks on, eatin' popcorn

We all know what they moms and they pops on Out go the love when the drugs come

They never got nuttin' for Christmas and they ain't Muslim

This is a jewel, a lot of us was them

This is a jewel, a lot of us was them Your head to the sky

You can win as long as you keep

Your head to the sky Uh, to my lock down niggaz keep your head in the sky

To my shot down niggaz keep your head in the sky

I don't know if it's better to ride or better to die

And that's why there's red in my eye 'Cause people don't know what the ghetto is like

Either you make it out, or the terrible life

I don't wanna be a broke *** and everybody in the hood

Got somebody in they fam' with a coke habit You work for minimum wage

I'ma get in the game, get shot or a bid in the cage

It's a risk I gotta take and I'ma be the nigga

With the bricks and the stash and the biscuit outta state And even though I'm blessed with the gift

I gotta move 'cause the pain and the sickness gotta wait

I go extremely hard why let up?

And I can breathe long as I keep my head up Your head to the sky

You can win as long as you keep

Your head to the sky Aiyyo I come from a place where it's three strikes out

And your life's on the line, so we iced out

Summertime gettin' money, three dice out

Tanktops and jean shorts, we Niked out Headbands and four wheelers

Jeeps and Coupes and Convos about who know more killers

It's all wrong but it's all right

It's a small world, matter of fact it's a small life We all trip but the way to survive

Is hold your head and make sure you fall right

And it's a quite fact, that whatever goes around comes right back

It's just like that And we tryin' to touch major paper

Everybody in the struggle, it gets greater later

Never say can't, it's better to try

And you can breathe long as you keep your head to the sky Don't you let nobody stop you, mmm

Hey, hey, yeah Your head to the sky

You can win as long as you keep

Your head to the sky Your head to the sky

You can win as long as you keep

Your head to the sky Don't look back, no time for looking back

Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta go on, hey hey hey

[Incomprehensible], hey hey hey hey hey hey

Keep on, keep on, keep on, no, yeah Your head to the sky

You can win as long as you keep

Your head to the sky Your head to the sky

You can win as long as you keep

Your head to the sky No time for looking back, hey

No matter what's going on before you

Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on, hey hey hey hey yeah

Be optimistic, yeah

Gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta keep on, gotta go Thanks I needed that

I got you, we gon' make it