Keep Ya Head Up
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| Single by 2Pac featuring Dave Hollister | ||||||||||||||
| from the album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... | ||||||||||||||
| B-side |
I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto Rebel of the Underground |
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| Released | October 28, 1993 | |||||||||||||
| Format | 12" | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Hip hop, R&B | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:23 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Interscope | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Tupac Shakur | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | DJ Daryl | |||||||||||||
| 2Pac featuring Dave Hollister singles chronology | ||||||||||||||
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"Keep Ya Head Up" is a 1993 hit single by 2Pac. The song features R&B singer Dave Hollister and is dedicated to black women and Latasha Harlins.
The beat is sampled from Zapp's "Be Alright" and the chorus is taken from The Five Stairsteps' "O-o-h Child". It was first released in Shakur's 1993 album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. later appearing after his death in 1998 in his Greatest Hits compilation. A "sequel" to the song, "Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)" was released in 2Pac's posthumous album Still I Rise in 1999.
The video opens up with the words "Dedicated to the memory of Latasha Harlins, it's still on", in reference to the L.A. Riots. The video has a basic format with Shakur rapping in the middle of a circle surrounded by a crowd of people and in some scenes seen holding a young child. His mother Afeni Shakur also appears in the video. Jada Pinkett Smith (then known as Jada Pinkett) made a cameo appearance in the music video.
Alyssa Rosenberg of Brisbane Times felt the song "weaved together a critique of negligent fathers, an argument for abortion rights and a sharp analysis of misogyny."
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