Keep Ya Head Up by 2Pac
Genre: Rap
Year: 1994
Year: 1994
"Keep Ya Head Up" is a late 1993 hit by Tupac Shakur. #11 in About.coms Top 100 Rap Songs, with "Dear Mama" voted #4.
It was first released in Shakurs 1993 album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., later appearing after his death in 1996 in his Greatest Hits compilation. A "sequel" to the song, Baby Dont Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II) was released in 2Pacs posthumous album Still I Rise in 1999.
The beat is sampled from Zapp & Rogers "Be Alright" and the chorus is sampled from The Five Stairsteps "O-o-h Child", but originally it was sampled from Big Daddy Kane's "Prince of Darkness". The song peaked at #2 on the U.S. Rap chart, #7 on the Hip Hop/R&B chart and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It features Dave Hollister. Read full article at wikipedia.org
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