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{Shock G}
Now you can tell from my everday fits, I ain't rich
So cease and desist with them tricks (tricks)
I'm just another black man caught up in the mix (mix)
Trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents (A dime and a nickel)
Just cause I'm a freak don't mean that we could hit the sheets
Baby I can see, that you don't recognize me
I'm Shock G, the one who put the satin on your panties
Never knew a hooker that could share me, I get around
{Money B}
What's up love, how you doing? (All right)
Well I've been hanging sanging, trying to do my thang
Oh, you heard that I was banging
Your home girl you went to school with, that's cool
But did she tell you about her sister and your cousin? Thought I
wasn't
See, weekends were made for Michelob
But it's a Monday, my day, so just let me hit it, yo
And don't mistake my statement for a clown
We can keep in the down low long as you know, that I get around
{Tupac}
2Pacalypse Now don't stop for hoes, I get around
Why I ain't call you? Ha ha, please
Finger tips on the hips as I dip, gotta get a tight grip, don't slip
Loose lips sink ships, it's a trip
I love the way she licks her lips, see me jocking
Put a little twist in her hips cause I'm watching
Conversations on the phone til the break of dawn
Now we all alone, why the lights on?
2pac - Keep Ya Head Up
[Verse One:] [Chorus]
Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice [Verse Three:]
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots
I give a holler to my sisters on welfare And uhh
Tupac cares, and don't nobody else care To all the ladies havin babies on they own
And uhh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot I know it's kinda rough and you're feelin all alone
When you come around the block brothas clown a lot Daddy's long gone and he left you by ya lonesome
But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Thank the Lord for my kids, even if nobody else want em
Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I'm sure
And when he tells you you ain't nuttin don't believe him And if you fall, stand tall and comeback for more
And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him Cause ain't nuttin worse than when your son
Cause sista you don't need him wants to kno why his daddy don't love him no mo'
And I ain't tryin to gas ya up, I just call em how I see em You can't complain you was dealt this
You know it makes me unhappy (what's that) hell of a hand without a man, feelin helpless
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a Because there's too many things for you to deal with
pappy Dying inside, but outside you're looking fearless
And since we all came from a woman While tears, is rollin down your cheeks
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman Ya steady hopin things don't all down this week
I wonder why we take from our women Cause if it did, you couldn't take it, and don't blame me
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I was given this world I didn't make it
I think it's time to kill for our women And now my son's getten older and older and cold
Time to heal our women, be real to our women From havin the world on his shoulders
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies While the rich kids is drivin Benz
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies I'm still tryin to hold on to my survivin friends
And since a man can't make one And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one please... you got to keep your head up
So will the real men get up ===================================
I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up
[Chorus]
Keep ya head up, oooo child things are gonna get easier
ooooo child things are gonna get brighter [2x]
[Verse Two:]
[Chorus]
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see Verse Three: 2Pac
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see, Fuck the world as we ???? and witness furious speeds
through all the rain and the pain, of nasty questions keep us all stressin', curious G's
you gotta keep your sense of humor. Backstabbed and bleedin', fuckin' thoughts laced with weed
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Learnin', duckin' stray shots, bullets be hot, they burnin'
Remember that. Inhalin' sherm smoke, visualized the flames
Mmm, yeah. Will I be smothered by my own pain?
Keep ya head up.Yeah. Strange whispers, cowards conversate, so quick to dis us
Takin' pictures for the feds, and desperate hopes they'd get us
Verse One: 2Pac Hit us off, give us plenty centuries, forgive my sins
Since I ain't in many penitenturies the best revenge is fuck friends
Our lifestyles be close captioned We military minded soldiers, bustin' shots blindly
addicted to fatal attractions Tryin' to find Jehovah to help me
Pictures of actions be played back Somebody save me
in the midst of mashin' Lost and crazy, scared to drop a seed hopin' I ain't cursed my
No fairy tales for this young black male babies
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail, and crack sales Maybe now niggas feel me now, picture my pain
Hustlin' and heart be a nigga culture embrace my words make the world change
or the repercutions while bustin' on backstabbin' vultures And still I smile nigga
Sellin' my soul for material wishes, fast cars and bitches
Wishin' I live my life a legend, immortalized in pictures (Scarface talking)
Why shed tears? Save your sympathy
My childhood years were spent buryin' my peers in the cemetary And now a moment of silence, let us pray
Here's a message to the newborns, waitin' to breathe And as you journey into outerspace
If you believe then you can achieve may the angels help to lead the way
Just look at me shine up on your soul to keep you safe
Against all odds, though life is hard we carry on And all the homies that done passed away
Livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on They there to greet you as you pass the gates
To all the seeds that follow me And as you headed to the tunnel's light
protect your essence I hope it leads to eternal life
Born with less, but you still precious We say the prayers for our homie 'Pac
Just smile for me now Smile
(Smile for me)
Chours: Johnny P, 2Pac (All ya need to do is smile)
Smiiiiiile for me , won't you smile (smile for me now) (Woooo smile for me)
Just smiiiile (smile), smile for me (Come on smile for me)
(What cha lookin' all sad for, nigga you black, smile for me now) =================================
Smiiiiiile for me (nigga you ain't got nothin' to be worried about)
Won't you smile (no doubt, smile for me now) just smiiiiile
(And the next generation)
[Verse Two]
Will I survive all the fights and the darkness?
Trouble sparks, they tell me home is where the heart is, dear
departed
I shed tattooed tears and couldn't sleep good
for multiple years, witness peers catch gunshots
Nobody cares, seen the politicians ban us
They'd rather see us locked in chains, please explain
why they can't stand us, is there a way for me to change?
Or am I just a victim of things I did to maintain?
I need a place to rest my head
with the little bit of homeboys that remains, cause all the rest dead
Is there a spot for us to roll, if you find it
I'll be right behind ya, show me and I'll go
How can I be peaceful? I'm comin from the bottom
Watch my daddy scream peace while the other man shot him
I need a house that's full of love when I need to escape
the deadly places slingin drugs, in thug's mansion
[Verse Three]
Dear momma don't cry, your baby boy's doin good
Do 4 Love Changes
Turn it up loud. Hahaha, ahahaha, hey man. You a little sucker for I see no changes
love, right? Word up, hahahahaha.
Wake up in the mornin and ask myself
I shoulda seen you was trouble right from the starrrrt, taught me so Is life worth living, should I blast myself
many lessons How not to mess with broken hearts, so many
questions When this began we was the perfect match, perhaps we I'm trying to be a boy and even worse I'm black
had some problems but we workin at it, and now the arguments are My stomach hurts so I'm looking for a purse to snatch
gettin loud, I wanna say But I can't help from walkin out just a
little way Just take my hand and understand, if you could see I Cops give a damn about our needs bro
never planned to be a man it just wasn't me But now I'm searchin Pull the tigger kill a nigger, he's a hero
for commitment, in other arms I wanna shelter you from harm,
don't be alarmed Your attitude was the cause, you got me stressin Givin crack to the kids, who the hell cares
Soon as I open up the door with your jealous questions Like where One less hungry mouth on the welfare
can I be you're killin me with your jealousy Now my ambition's to
be free I can't breathe, cause soon as I leave, it's like a trap I hear First ship em dope and let 'em deal with brothers
you callin me to come back, I'm a sucka for love ... that's right, Give em guns, step back watch them kill each other
sucka for love.
It's time to fight back, thats what Huey said
Chorus: (repeat 2X) Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead
What you won't do
do for love I got love for my brother
you tried erverything But we could never go nowhere unless we share with each other
but you don't give up
We gotta start making changes
Just when I thought I broke away and I'm fellin happy You try to Learn to see me as your brother 'stead of 2 distant strangers
trap me say you pregnant and guess who the daddy Don't wanna
fall for it, but in this case what could I do? So now I'm back to And thats how its sposed to be
makin promises to you, tryin to keep it true How can the devil take a brother if he's close to me
What if I'm wrong, a trick to keep me on and on Tryin to be strong
and in the process, keep you goin I'm bout to lose my composure, I let it go back to when we played as kids
I'm gettin close But things change, thats the way it is
To packin up and leavin notes, and gettin ghost Tell me who
knows, a peaceful place where I can go That's just the way it is
To clear my head I'm feelin low, losin control My heart is sayin Things will never be the same
leave, oh what a tangle web we weave when we conspire to That's just the way it is
conceive, and now You gettin calls at the house, guess you cheatin Ahh yeah
That's all I need to hear cause I'm leavin, I'm ou
That's just the way it is
=============================================== Things will never be the same
That's just the way it is
Ahh yeah
I see no changes
We under
Lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live
And lets change the way we treat each other
(Dre) (Tupac)
Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up
A state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side
The track hits ya eardrum like a slug to ya chest Cause you and I know it's tha best side
Pack a vest for your Jimmy in the city of sex
We in that sunshine state with a bomb ass hemp beat (Dre)
the state where ya never find a dance floor empty. yeah, That's riight
And pimps be on a mission for them greens west coast, west coast
lean mean money-makin'-machines servin' fiends. uh, California Love
I been in the game for ten years makin rap tunes California Love
ever since honeys was wearin sassoon. ===============================================
Now it's '95 and they clock me and watch me
Diamonds shinin' lookin' like I robbed Liberace. ===============================================
It's all good, from Diego to tha Bay
Your city is tha bomb if your city makin' pay ===============================================
Throw up a finger if ya' feel the same way
Dre puttin' it down for
Californ-i-a.
(repeat 1)
(Tupac)
Out on bail fresh outta jail
California dreamin'
Soon as I stepped on the scene
I'm hearin' hoochies screamin'.
Fiendin' for money and alcohol
the life of a west side playa' where cowards die
Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die.
In L.A. we wearin' chucks not Ballies. (yea, that's right)
Dressed in Locs and khaki suits and ride is what we do
Flossin' but have caution we can lie with other crews.
Famous cause we program worldwide
Let'em recognize from Longbeach to Rose grands
Bumpin' and grindin' like a slow jam, it's west side
So you know the row won't bow down to no man.
Say what you say
But give me that bomb beat from Dre
Let me serenade the streets of L.A.
>From Oakland to Sacktown
The Bay area in bag down
Cali is where they put they mack down
Give me love!
(rpt 1)
(rpt 2)