Man up Anthem

Man up Anthem - 116/Sho Baraka/Derek Minor/Andy Mineo

Momma want some Obama in me

The hood want 'Pac

Hip hop want to see

The common in me

And since it's a senseless contradiction

I end up a misfit

Trying to fit in

This ends when I stand up

And see the hands of the standard

Holy is the lamb huh

Holy is the lamb

Now we holding you to man up

'Cus we were made in his image

Start lookin' at what you came from

Hey listen

Right after Adam

Every atom in our anatomy is adamic

Adamant

After what adonai is against

Let me take you back

To the tree in eden

If you read it you'll see

That eve was deceived

But Adam's the one who let her eat

Instead of leading

No we ain't leading

We bump that

Basically little boys

With muscles and our mustache

To femininity we need a remedy

The god man 100 masculinity

We the last

Yeah

Where the men at

It seems like they all lost

None of them are on the scene

It seems like they died off

They extinct

But my dream is to rise up

We chasin' the prize of the king

The divine boss

But we fell away

Now we ungodly

We lose and we really

Got the blues like navi

I want to celebrate

The dudes that's beside me

Fellas let's elevate

We do with the lively

They lie

Go ahead dead boy get your shine on

And if a sucka try to buck ya

Get your 9 homes

That's what I heard you

Gotta do to be a man now

Stand up for yourself

So I took it in my hands now

And that's the problem man

We busy tryin' to solve it

All the while we walking dead

Man somebody bring the coffin'

Boy dropped peach fuzz

Now you think that you a man

'Cus you feelin' yourself

You need to man up

Yeah

There's many things

Men is chasing after

They got some questions

We got some answers

Sex and models and tippin' bottles back

Pile up excuses right

Next to your bottle caps

A rolodex filled with names

That you aim to please

Next to the stack of money

Building up a heart of greed

Ice on his neck givin'

Jokers the cold shoulder

You drunk off pride

Plus you lovin' the hang over

You gotta whole lot of stuff

That won't amount to gain

Life will never make sense

Because you never made change

You got it twisted

And sick like a fever

Lil' man live to stack dough Keebler

Oh man up get up outta the tree house

Leave the cookies alone

It's time to eat meat now

Try na show you

A new way to live now

No charge

You can call it a free style

Without christ you know how your man is

A boy in a man's body

Like tom hanks in big

Yeah

Bein' a man ain't got nothin'

To do with age

You could be a boy 'til the day

You lay in a grave

None of us behave like the image

Of who we're made

'Cause we fall in the way

It's better known as depraved

Runnin' from responsibility

Really we crave the easy way out

Of places that call us

To pull our weight

Man they goin' through everyday

Decisions are made

Responding to the call

God's given them from the gate

Man up

Yaa

Let the process begin

Let's separate the boys from the men

Man up

It don't matter how you started

Partner

It's about how you end

Man up

Jesus is the model

Follow us we will follow him

Man up

We the hmm

We the last of a dying breed

It's time that we

Man up