![]() ![]() Having come out of a world that seemed like the future was absolutely hopeless, Tupac Shakur chose to write a song about keeping your head up. Women, especially as featured in this song, were often left to raise children all on their own, either because the father was dead, could’t afford a baby, or had moved on to… less fertile pastures. The men often took to the hustle to make enough money to eat and pay the rent. The deck was still stacked against young African-Americans born into the poverty. Much later in life, and now on the other side of the continent, Tupac wrote “Keep ya head up” in a situation in which not whole lot had changed. Fed up with racial profiling and police violence, the Black Panther Party, of which Tupac’s parents were both active members, was, at times, at war with the powers-that-be. The world of East Harlem in the 1970s, the world in which Tupac was raised, was not that far removed from the vision that Jesus offers for the end times. Read more: 2Pac – Keep Ya Head Up Lyrics | MetroLyrics We ain’t meant to survive, ’cause it’s a setup I blame my mother, for turnin’ my brother into a black baby They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poorĪnd the truth is, there ain’t no hope for the future You know it’s funny when it rains, it pours I try to keep my head up, and still keep from getting wetter ![]() It’s gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity Last night my buddy lost his whole family ![]() I try and find my friends, but they’re blowin’ in the wind It’s hard to be legit and still pay your rentĪnd in the end it seems I’m headin’ for the pen While it is the chorus, which features a sample from The Five Stairsteps “O-o-h Child” that has been my earworm for the week, the verses actually have something to say about apocalyptic vision that Jesus offers the crowd in Sunday’s lesson. ![]()
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