Keep Ya Head Up - Recorded at Spotify Studios NYC

Some say the blacker the berry
 The sweeter the juice
 I say the darker the flesh
 Then the deeper the roots
 I give a holla to my sisters on welfare
 Aiko cares, but don't nobody else care, I know
 I know they like to beat you down a lot
 When you come around the block, brothers clown a lot
 But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
 Forgive, but don't forget, girl, keep ya head up
 And when he tells you, you ain't nothin' don't believe him
 And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him
 'Cause, sister, you don't need him
 And I ain't tryin' to gas you up
 I just call it how I see it
 You know what makes me unhappy?
 When brothers 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 we 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, yeah
 But keep ya head up
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up, uh
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter... Yeah!
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up
 Keep ya head up
 Things'll get brighter
 
 Some say the blacker the berry
 The sweeter the juice
 I say the darker the flesh
 Then the deeper the roots
 I give a holla to my sisters on welfare
 Aiko cares, but don't nobody else care, I know
 I know they like to beat you down a lot
 When you come around the block, brothers clown a lot
 But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
 Forgive, but don't forget, girl, keep ya head up
 And when he tells you, you ain't nothin' don't believe him
 And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him
 'Cause, sister, you don't need him
 And I ain't tryin' to gas you up
 I just call it how I see it
 You know what makes me unhappy?
 When brothers 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 we 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, yeah
 But keep ya head up
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up, uh
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter... Yeah!
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up
 Keep ya head up
 Things'll get brighter
 
 Some say the blacker the berry
 The sweeter the juice
 I say the darker the flesh
 Then the deeper the roots
 I give a holla to my sisters on welfare
 Aiko cares, but don't nobody else care, I know
 I know they like to beat you down a lot
 When you come around the block, brothers clown a lot
 But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
 Forgive, but don't forget, girl, keep ya head up
 And when he tells you, you ain't nothin' don't believe him
 And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him
 'Cause, sister, you don't need him
 And I ain't tryin' to gas you up
 I just call it how I see it
 You know what makes me unhappy?
 When brothers 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 we 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, yeah
 But keep ya head up
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up, uh
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter... Yeah!
 Things are gonna get easier
 Ooh, child, things'll get brighter
 Keep ya head up
 Keep ya head up
 Things'll get brighter