Hold Me Down Lyrics

If you know then you know

And when it all caves in on you

Even when it all caves in on you

Find the light

Make it right

Hold up

Damn

They all coming for my land

White man killed off my ancestors

Now they coming back to go again

Tryna stand up

But they always got us with our hands up

Now they tryna hold our rights for ransom

Tryna get my bands up

But they always take advantage

It's the same shit

Different day

Cause know we the new slaves

Gold chains round our neck just to try and maintain

And cuffs round our hands just to fucking restrain

Lives are a game to em

They tryna see who top player

Keep on stealing like a ballplayer

Fucked up

Like its bad luck

But luck is just imaginary

Need the will to push foward to every January

Kinda scary how I've lost all emotion

Not even troubled by commotion

It's just the way that I grew up

Ain't no devotion

To anybody that gets close and

Yeah imma young kid

Mixed kid

Far from a rich kid

Nigga that they thinking came up from the sticks kid

Sick shit

In their gaze

When they look upon the pigment

Of my close kin

Then look at me with confusion

Once they find the solution

Cast from the group like a reject

But I couldn't give two shits

Turn nothing

To something

Need someone

Need some things

To seek change

And help them

When no one else

Turn our way

Gotta do things

The right way

For our sake

We all beings

That's human

Why we all saying

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Yeah

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Yeah

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Yeah

Better ride to survive

When its time come alive

Then decide

What you think about the time you arrived

To this place of design then

Ponder all the pros and the cons

Play the song back

To help you carry on

If you on then you on

If you not then move on

Some people were just born when the blessings they perform

And others work hard for the gold

Tough goals

Keep gring harder then the last time before

Can't afford

To be dead weight

Laying in your bed waiting

Thinking bout the damn bread

Just to get some damn cake

Life will give you stress pains

That might lead to chest pains

And a smokers cough

Cause you couldn't take the damn heat

Damn

Always focused on what cant be

Lost in a bad dream

Why I never get sleep

The pain runs too deep

Full of frustration

And the basic help wasn't fazing

Had to find a new way to change it

Shake this feeling

I've been having since my momma gave birth to me

All my life I've been searching for a worth to me

Fucked up when I think about whats cursing me

It's a first for me

For things to go this well

It's a tell tale sign that I've made it outta hell

And the only warmth I hear abouts my fucking clientele

Talking bout my latest album

Go head niggas do tell

Turn nothing

To something

Need someone

Need some things

To seek change

And help them

When no one else

Turn our way

Gotta do things

The right way

For our sake

We all beings

That's human

Why we all saying

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Yeah

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Yeah

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Don't hold me down

Yeah