Hold On Be Strong

[00:00.20] Hold on
[00:02.92] Yeah, it's gonna be alright
[00:04.29] Don't trip, baby
[00:05.95] It'll get better
[00:08.72] Aye, do this thug style, man, thug style
[00:12.71] When this whole beat drop
[00:13.63] We just gon' run it to 'em
[00:14.10] Bet, it's all good, uhh
[00:17.07] I never had much, ran with a bad bunch
[00:19.76] Little skinny kid sneakin' weed in my bag lunch
[00:22.35] And all through Junior High, we was just gettin' by
[00:25.02] And drive-bys robbed my homies of their young lives
[00:27.75] I never did cry, and even though I had pain in my heart
[00:31.10] I was hopeless from the start
[00:33.09] They couldn't tell me nothin', they all tried to help me
[00:35.57] The marijuana had my mind gone, it wasn't healthy
[00:38.28] I traveled places, caught cases, what a ill year
[00:40.84] I felt the pain and the rain, but I'm still here
[00:43.58] Never did like the police
[00:44.93] Let the whole world know, now I gets no peace
[00:47.85] 'Cause they chasin' me down
[00:49.16] And facin' me now, what do I do?
[00:51.11] These things that a thug goes through
[00:53.05] And still I rise, so keep your head up
[00:55.45] And make your mind strong
[00:56.83] It's a struggle every day, but you gotta hold on
[00:59.78] Hold on, be strong!
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[01:02.92] When it's on, it's on
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[01:08.13] When it's on, it's on
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[01:13.45] When it's on, it's on
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[01:18.71] When it's on, it's on
[01:20.04] There's never a good day, 'cause in my hood they
[01:23.06] Let they AK's pump strays where the kids play
[01:25.72] And every Halloween, check out the murder scene
[01:28.33] Can't help but duplicate the violence seen on the screen
[01:31.03] My homies dyin' before they get to see they birthdays
[01:33.61] These is the worst days, sometimes it hurts to pray
[01:36.37] And even God turned his back on the ghetto youth
[01:38.82] I know that ain't the truth, sometimes I look for proof
[01:41.54] I wonder if Heaven got a ghetto, and if it does
[01:43.73] Does it matter if you Blood or you Cuz?
[01:45.88] Remember how it was?
[01:47.15] The picnics and the parties in the projects
[01:49.39] Small time drinkin', gettin' high with them armies
[01:51.95] Just another knucklehead kid from the gutter
[01:54.59] I'm dealin' with the madness, raised by a single mother
[01:57.38] I'm tryin' to tell you when it's on
[01:59.08] You gotta keep your head to the sky
[02:00.99] And be strong, most of all, hold on
[02:03.00] Hold on, be strong!
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[02:06.26] When it's on, it's on
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[02:11.32] When it's on, it's on
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[02:16.78] When it's on, it's on
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[02:21.97] When it's on, it's on
[02:23.42] (Hold on, be strong)
[02:26.48] I know them ain't tears comin' down your face
[02:29.17] Wipe your eyes
[02:31.59] In this world, only the strong survive, you know?
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[02:36.81] I know it's hard out there
[02:39.91] Welfare, AIDS, earthquakes, muggings, car-jackings
[02:42.35]
[02:47.03] Yeah, we got problems
[02:49.09] But believe me when I tell you things always get better
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[02:54.16] God don't like ugly, and God don't like no quitters
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[03:00.13] You know what Billie Holiday said?
[03:02.44] Bay-bee, God bless the child that can hold his own
[03:06.96] You know? You got to stand strong
[03:10.71] And when these bustas try to knock you out your place
[03:13.71] You stand there to they face
[03:15.84] Tell 'em "Hold on!", and be strong
[03:19.71] The game don't stop, huh
[03:23.95] This here is black, man
[03:26.43] If you don't never learn nothin', learn one thing
[03:30.67] It don't stop, 'til the casket drop
[03:34.11] Thug for life, feel me?
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[03:39.73] All my homeboys and my homegirls, stay strong
[03:43.53] When things get bad
[03:45.33] Especially come the first and the 15th
[03:47.81] Stay strong, and stay ballin', hold on
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[03:52.54] I'll catch y'all at the next life, we in traffic
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