[00:00.34]Artist：2pac
[00:00.96]Songs Title：hold ya head
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[00:06.70]My homeboys in Clinton and Rikers Island
[00:08.82]All the penitentiaries
[00:09.46]Mumia Mutulu Geronimo Sekon
[00:11.70]All the political prisoners
[00:13.45]San Quentin who can save you all the jail houses
[00:18.26]
[00:19.58]I'm with you
[00:20.89]Yeah one thug one thug
[00:23.08]
[00:23.64]You're listenin' to the sounds of one thug
[00:26.08]
[00:27.54]One thug one thug
[00:28.41]You're listenin' to the sounds of
[00:29.54]（How do we get ahead ）
[00:30.67]I wake up early in the mornin' mindstate so military
[00:32.79]Suckers fantasizin' pictures of a young brother buried
[00:35.73]Was it me the **** or this life I lead
[00:37.54]If daytime is for suckers then tonight we bleed
[00:40.17]Out for all that knowin' that this world bring drawbacks
[00:43.54]Look how this **** bump once I deliver these raw raps
[00:47.36]Meet me at the cemetery dressed in black
[00:49.29]Tonight we honor the dead those who won't be back
[00:52.04]So if I die do the same for me shed no tears
[00:54.67]An Outlaw thug livin' in this game for years
[00:57.54]Why worry hope to God get me high when I'm buried
[01:00.35]Knowin' deep inside only a few love me
[01:02.67]Come rush me to the gates of Heaven let me picture for a while
[01:06.04]How I lived for my days as a child I wonder now
[01:08.85]How do we outlast always get cash
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[01:11.91]Stay strong if we all mash hold ya head
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[01:19.67]How do we keep the music playing
[01:21.91]（Yes you got to hold ya head）
[01:23.61]How do we get ahead
[01:24.79]（Hold your head）
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[01:27.17]Too many young black brothers are dying
[01:29.85]（Yes you got to hold ya head）
[01:31.92]
[01:32.48]Livin' fast too fast
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[01:35.98]Yo these felonies be like prophecies beggin' me to stop
[01:39.04]'Cause these lawyers gettin' money every time they knock us
[01:41.79]Snatchin' pockets lyrically suckers flea when they notice
[01:44.41]Switched my name to Makaveli half the rap game closed
[01:47.11]Exposed foes with my hocus pocus flows they froze
[01:49.79]Now suckers idolize my chosen blows
[01:52.04]
[01:52.67]And mo' money mean litigatin mo' playa hatin'
[01:55.04]
[01:55.67]Got a cell at the pen for me waitin' is this my fate
[01:58.73]Miss me with that misdemeanor thinkin' me fall back
[02:01.29]Never that too much Tequila drinkin' we all that
[02:04.11]Make them understand me if not I slang my posse
[02:06.73]Everyone with me is family 'cause everybody's got me
[02:09.48]Watch me paint a perfect vision this life we livin'
[02:12.05]Got us all meetin' up in prison
[02:14.24]Last week I got a letter from my road dog written in blood
[02:17.54]Saying ＂Please show a playa love＂ hold ya head hold it
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[02:23.68]How do we keep the music playing
[02:25.85]
[02:27.55]（Yes you got to hold ya head）
[02:29.86]How do we get ahead
[02:30.79]（Hold your head）
[02:31.54]Too many young black brothers are dying
[02:36.73]（Yes you got to hold ya head）
[02:40.85]Livin' fast too fast
[02:42.86]The **** got me tweakin' in my mind I'm thinkin'
[02:44.85]God bless the child that can hold his own
[02:46.92]Indeed enemies bleed when I hold my chrome
[02:48.80]Let these words be the last to my unborn seeds
[02:51.17]Hope to raise my young nation in this world of greed
[02:53.74]Currency means nothin' if you still ain't free
[02:55.60]
[02:56.48]Money breeds jealousy take the game from me
[02:59.04]I hope for better days trouble comes naturally
[03:00.61]Running from authorities 'til they capture me
[03:03.55]
[03:04.48]And my aim is to spread mo' smiles than tears
[03:07.30]Utilalize lessons learned from my childhood years
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[03:10.24]Maybe Mama had it all right rest yo' head
[03:13.10]Tradin' conversation all night bless the dead
[03:15.11]
[03:15.67]To my homies that I used to have that no longer roll
[03:18.73]Catch a brother at the crossroads
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[03:21.23]Plus nobody knows my soul watchin' time pass
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[03:24.55]Through the glass of my drop top Rolls hold ya head
[03:27.17]
[03:29.17]How do we keep the music playing
[03:31.67]（Yes you got to hold ya head）
[03:33.36]How do we get ahead
[03:34.48]（No matter how hard it get feel me come on）
[03:37.05]（Hold your head）
[03:38.04]
[03:39.61]Too many young black brothers are dying
[03:42.80]（Get the **** drink a drink read a book）
[03:44.67]（Yes you got to hold ya head）
[03:46.24]Livin' fast too fast
[03:47.55]
[03:48.23]（Watch the stars get some ***** whatever）
[03:50.42]How do we keep the music playing
[03:53.04]（Yes you got to hold ya head）
[03:54.74]How do we get ahead