[ti:Hold On (Explicit) (2006 Remastered LP Version) (explicit Explicit 2006 Remastered LP Version)] [ar:Brand Nubian] [al:The Very Best Of Brand Nubian (Explicit) (Digital Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hold On (Clean LP Version) - Brand Nubian [00:06.21]Written by:Lord Jamar for 7G Productions [00:12.42]I'll keep holding on mm yea yea [00:17.75]I'll keep holding on [00:22.05]Young black male twenty five years of age [00:24.92]Many a lives didn't survive to this stage [00:27.39]'Cause the rage of another brother got him popped [00:29.71]Shot him and he dropped like a beanbag [00:31.63]Mean mother****** with a rag and some jeans that sag [00:35.55]They signify your death by crossin' out your tag [00:38.05]Then they go and brag that they took another life [00:40.36]Never to think do a brother got a mother and a wife [00:43.38]Trife when a ni**a do the work of the klan [00:45.94]Thats what you're doin' [00:46.87]When you ruin the life of a black man [00:49.18]Attack plan on self [00:50.93]The man's got the family jewels [00:52.62]So I guess were buryin' wealth [00:54.72]All because weve been taught to despise what's black [00:57.80]Open your eyes you oughta realize the fact [01:00.25]That youve been gettin' used like a trick [01:02.23]You think you're mighty but yo whitey got your head sick [01:05.19]See you were fed thick pieces of swine as a baby [01:08.21]It only help to drive your mind crazy [01:10.57]Now your blind days be over [01:12.53]No more standin' on line tryin' to find Jehovah [01:15.73]Let us rewind to a time we was right and just [01:18.53]Nowadays we just fight and bust [01:20.61]One another in the back over crack a carjack [01:23.90]Will get you killed watch the blood get spilled [01:25.95]To the scale then watch how fast they build the jail [01:29.37]Now they got you holdin' on to a cell well [01:32.54]I'll keep holdin' on yeah [01:37.45]I'll keep holdin' on [01:42.70]I'll keep holdin' on [01:48.12]I'll keep holdin' on [01:52.70]Why it gotta be me B I just came to chill [01:55.78]Came to see the flicks nuttin' more nuttin' less [01:58.33]Try to show love even on a bad day [02:00.81]I roll up I'm never hold up the L is swoll up [02:03.56]The beef in the mind is definitely a winner [02:06.13]Oh thats that rappin' ni**a [02:07.53]I thought he was much bigger [02:08.84]Do you know this girl named Nah [02:10.28]B I don't know nothin' [02:11.40]Did that name game **** right from the go get [02:13.93]Shorty want an autograph can I sign it at the end [02:16.70]Oh I think I'm all of that now [02:18.24]So now it's ****** nubain [02:19.45]Should I call you a ***** [02:21.02]Or should I maintain [02:22.25]I'm just here with my lady and you came witcha man [02:24.79]This would force him to front [02:26.04]And I'm sure he don't want it [02:27.46]Over some old bullshit when I'm quick to pull **** [02:30.06]Live dad everything is everything [02:32.27]I got a lotta **** to do [02:33.90]I can't afford to catch a charge [02:35.45]I'm a product of the streets [02:36.70]And I couldn't make no peace [02:38.02]All the real hard niggas I know is on the down low [02:40.91]Straight for real estate on a scale I place your fate [02:43.64]Now I'm a let you skate [02:45.11]You was a little ****** [02:46.63]And I seen you don't need it [02:49.21]So hold on with your bad self with your bad self [02:52.26]I'll keep holdin' on yeah [02:57.46]I'll keep holdin' on [03:01.63]I gotta hold on' [03:02.68]I'll keep holdin on [03:06.74]I gotta be strong [03:08.01]I'll keep holdin' on yeah [03:12.52]She's gettin' rough but I gotta hold on [03:15.51]Mother ******* just won't leave me alone [03:18.64]Yeah yeaahh [03:23.06]Ya see she's gettin' rough but I gotta hold on [03:26.19]These little ******* won't leave me alone [03:30.45]They won't leave me alone [03:33.25]Yeah [03:35.87]But I gotta hold on [03:38.43]Because my word is bon [03:41.25]And it's on and on on and on on and on [03:44.36]On ya [03:46.79]I gotta hold on [03:49.15]Yeah yeah yeahhhh yeah yeahhh yeahhh [03:53.92]Oooh yeah yeah yeah [03:57.90]Yeaaah ooh [03:59.84]See I gotta hold on [04:01.17]Ah uh ah [04:02.63]I gotta hold on gotta hold on [04:04.74]Gotta hold on