Album Cover Hold On

Hold On

Brand Nubian

7

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