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, if 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

Friggin' love this track. It might be his finest moment.

One of the best songs of the 90s. It still sounds fresh

This was the Pac I was a fan of
[Edited 5/7/08 20:28pm]

Too Pac is the man.

I loved all the lyrics on this song but of course I dug this part:

I remember Marvin Gaye
He sang to me, he had me feeling like black was the thing to be

Or something to that effect.
[Edited 5/7/08 20:42pm]

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Oh shit... I spent so many years shedding so many tears...

2Pac had some great songs now.

Tupac

Timmy84 said:

One of the very few rappers from the 90s who I still listen to regularly

i was listening to hit m up the other day , and damn that track is wacked. its such a bitter song full of hate . i dont know if that track got him in 2 trouble but it was such an angry song , you could hear him bleed on that song , he really hated biggies guts at that point. rest in peace

After this song came out, there were alot of women at Pac's shows. At the time, Hip Hop club shows were about 80% male. Right after Keep Your Head Up, the female security check line was longer than the males. I think women always dug him for his looks, but those lyrics really touched the girls on the block. They must have felt that someone was actually caring about what they were going thru.

GangstaFam said:

It's certainly up there for me. The general public and I had totally opposite paths WRT 2Pac. If you asked me to name his 4 best songs, I'd quickly say "I Get Around," "If My Homie Calls," "Keep Ya Head Up," "Brenda's Got a Baby," and "I Ain't Mad at Cha," with only the latter being later in his career. I quickly grew tired of his incessant "West Coast" posing -- man, you're from New York City -- but that's when he blew up.

pfunkpilot said:

That was cool of him.

Cinnie said:

Yep, that's what it sounds like alright.