[IntroScratching] Hold it down [Verse 1Dunn D] I give a shout out for those down on their luck Or if youre working hard but all your efforts seem to turn to dust Burn ?all usor rust? or your good times have a way of corroding ?you earned a cuss? cause a break from it all, is what you were hoping Your way of coping, maybe you turn to drugs or alcohol Maybe youre trapped in a dark patch and cant see your way out the hole When you never got the last laugh, and everything seems to be your fault And your times for others and not yourself, and you put your shit on hold Flip the old routines and ways that youre used to Listen to the wisdom that we bringin its Dunn D and Mdusu Its not like, suddenly youre supposed to have a different life Just in those dark times I hope that I can shed some light Keep some time out for yourself every now and then Maybe write some rhymes, thats how I get shit out of my system So if you listening, you know we spit this bold and strong Bother kicking for you, so take it and soldier on [Hook] Holding it down For those struggling with the grind of life Holding it down For those working the nine to five Holding it down For those trying to strive through strife Holding it down You know we put out life in rhymes [Verse 2Mdusu] Its the Hobartian genius, subterranean artist beatsmith Making less cold hard per week than parking meters Still you cant defeat us, believe me plenty have tried Just made me lessoned and wise, with more depth than centrelink lines At benefit time the best of my life is short compared to the raw despair of former affairs Caught in the lair of the beast, been knocked fair off my feet And copped my share in the teeth, but still refuse to taste the air of defeat I keep climbing up the tower so the biters dont devour it Work the hustle daily to keep on my lights and power When I finally let it out, even titans run and cower But fuck it I gotta spit, I cant stand idle another hour I got tax to pay, food to buy, cash to make, rules to fight Wax to play, grooves to write, so I relax all day, move at night Track the breaks, through my sight, thats my fate tunes for life [Hook] [Verse 3Dunn D] Whether youre longing for love, or scrounging for money If youre bringing up kids, or your housing aint running If some asshole hates your guts and wants to have you done in If youre locked up in prison for a crime in which you did nothing If someone, close to you, recently passed away If youre fighting addictions and drink a cask a day If your partners abusive and you incur domestic violence If you try to speak out, but others had you silenced If youre tied in with people that just bring you down If your life has been crippled with disease and drought And pain, and vicious cycles that just eat you up And beat you up, you were there hurting, i can see the cuts Agree with us, at least this song that we spitting forth Cause we the cunts who got your back, with the shit we done record So sing the chorus, when you feel youve been done bad Cause its your time to just keep holding it down and stick it to the scum bags [Hook] [Verse 4Mdusu] So for me, holding it down is pumping out beats Every night and getting by on four hundred a week Being true to my girl, all the rest of my crew Standing up and rocking every gig the best i can do But you cant step in my shoes, you got your own shit to deal with Real shit, they dont seem to have in clubs on weekends Deep end of debt, births, deaths and rent HECS and petrol, baby food and ten percent To that cunt John Howard and his top shelf compadres Making sure that if we get anything then its the hard way The dark days can surely make your heart break But i aint letting no shit put me off my pathway Ive been walking long enough to hold my own And through times grown enough to hold control Hold a show and one day ill be owning the crown Big goals just surmount, so fuck up, better be rolling it now [Hook x2] [OutroScratching] Hold it down
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