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 bastard 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