Hold On

Brand Nubian

featuring Starr




[Starr]



I'll keep, holding on



I'll keep, holding on!




[Lord Jamar]



Young black male, twenty-five years of age



Many-a-lives didn't survive to this stage



Cause the rage of another brother got him popped



Shot him and he dropped, like a beanbag



Mean motherfucker with a rag and some jeans that sag



They signify your death by crossin out your tag



Then they go and brag that they took another life



Never to think, do a brother got a mother and a wife?



Trife when a nigga do the work of the Klan



That's what you're doin when you ruin the life of a black man



Attack plan on self



The man's got the family jewels, so I guess we're buryin wealth



All because we've been taught to despise what's black



Open your eyes you oughta realize the fact



That you've been gettin used like a trick



You think you're mighty, but yo, whitey got your head sick



See you were fed thick pieces of swine as a baby




It only help to drive your mind crazy



Now your blind days be over



No more standin on line, tryin to find Jehovah



Let us rewind to a time we was right and just



Nowadays we just fight and bust



One another in the back over crack, a carjack



Will get you killed, watch the blood get spilled



To the scale, then watch how fast they build the jail



Now they got you holdin on to a cell, well...




[Starr]



I'll keep, holdin on



I'll keep, holdin on!!



I'll keep, holdin on



I'll keep, holdin on!!




[Sadat X]



Why it gotta be me B? I just came to chill



Came to see the flicks, nuttin more nuttin less



Try to show love even on a bad day



I roll up, I'm never hold