Holler If Ya Hear Me by 2Pac (1993)
Holler If Ya’ Hear Me is a song from 2Pac’s second solo album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.. released on February 4, 1993. This song is an anthem of resistance which uses a sample from the song Do It Any Way You Wanna and Rebel Without a Pause, which concerns black poverty, police injustice, and Tupac’s perceived persecution of Dan Quayle. The song refers to various traumas from Tupac’s personal experience. It contains hustling, refusal, bearing arms of the issues and the song chorus leads the listeners to join the movement. [1]
Key Lyrics
Here we go, turn it up, let's start
From block to block we snatching hearts and jacking marks
And the punk police can't fade me and maybe
We can have peace someday, G
But right now I got my mind set up
Lookin down the barrel of my nine, get up
'Cause it's time to make the payback fat
Tell my brothers on the block–better stay strapped, black
And accept no substitutes
I bring truth to the youth tear the roof off the whole school
Oh no, I won't turn the other cheek
In case ya can't see us while we burn the other week
Now we got a nigga smash, blast
How long will it last 'til the po' gettin mo' cash
Until then, raise up!
Tell my young black males, blaze up!
Life's a mess don't stress, test
I'm givin' but be thankful that you're livin', blessed
Much love to my brothers in the pen'
See ya when they free ya if not when they shove me in
Once again it's an all out scrap
Keep your hands on ya gat, now ya boys watch ya back
'Cause in the alleys out in Cali I'mma tell ya
Mess with the best and the vest couldn't help ya
Scream, if ya feel me; see it clearly? [2]
You're too near me
Black Empowerment
References
- ↑ Holler If Ya Hear Me. wikipedia.org. Retreived January 27, 2021
- ↑ Holler if Ya Hear Me 2Pac. genius.com. Retrieved January 27, 2021