[Starr]
I'll keep, holding holdin' on
I'll keep, holding on! holdin' on

[Lord Jamar]
Young black male, twenty-five years of age
Many-a-livesMany a lives didn't survive to this stage
Cause'Cause the rage of another brother got him popped
Shot him and he dropped, like a beanbagenter added
Mean motherfucker with a rag and some jeans that sag
They signify your death by crossin 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?enter added
Trife when a nigga do the work of the Klan
That's what you're doin doin' when youenter deleted
ruin the life of a black man
Attack plan on self
The self, the man's got the family jewels, so jewels
So Ienter deleted
guess we're buryin buryin' wealthenter added
All because we've been taught to despise what's black
Open your eyes you oughta realize the fact
That you've been gettin gettin' used like a trick
You think you're mighty, but yo,enter deleted
whitey got your head sickenter added
See you were fed thick pieces of swine as a babyenter deleted
It only help to drive your mind crazy
Now crazy, now your blind days be over
No more standin standin' on line, tryin tryin' to find Jehovah
Let us rewind to a time we was right and just
Nowadays
Now a days 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 holdin' on to a cell, well... well

[Starr]
I'll keep, holdin holdin' on
I'll keep, holdin on!!
I'll keep, holdin holdin' on
I'll keep, holdin on!! 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 nuttin' more nuttin nuttin' less
Try to show love even on a bad day
I roll up, I'm never hold up, the L is swoll upenter added
The beef in the mind is definitely a winner
Oh that's that rappin rappin' nigga, Ienter deleted
thought he was much bigger
Do you know this girl named nah B Nah B? I don't know nothin nothin'
Did that name-game name game shit right from the go getenter added
Shorty want an autograph, can I sign it at the end end?
Oh I think I'm all of that now, soenter deleted
now it's fuck Brand Nubian
Should I call you a bitch, or should I maintain?
I'm just here with my lady, lady and you came witcha with your manenter added
This would force him to front, andenter deleted
I'm sure he don't want it
Over some old bullshit, when I'm quick to pull shit
Live dad, everything is everything
I got a lotta shit to do I can'tenter deleted
afford to catch a chargeenter added
I'm a product of the streets, andenter deleted
I couldn't make no peace
All the real hard shit I know, is on the down low
Straight for real estate, on a scale I place your fate
Now I'ma let you skate, you was a little weeded
And I seen you don't need it
So it, so hold on with your bad self... self

[Starr]
I'll keep, holdin holdin' on
I'll keep, holdin on!! holdin' on
I gotta hold on! on
I'll keep, holdin holdin' onenter added
My word is bond, I gotta be strong
I'll keep, holdin on!! holdin' on
And keep holdin holdin' on, yeah
Ya see life's gettin gettin' rough but I gotta hold on

All these little suckers want me alone
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Ya see life's gettin' rough but I gotta hold on
All these little suckers want me alone
Yeah, yeah, yeahhh!!
Ya see life's gettin rough but I gotta hold on
All these little suckers want me alone
Yeah, they want me alone
Yeah, yeah yeah
But I gotta hold on
Because because my word is bon
And it's on and on, on and on, on and onenter added
On ya...
ya, I gotta hold on
Yeah yeah yeahhhh yeah yeahhh yeahhh
Ohhhhh yeahh yeahh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeahh!Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
*fades*Yeah