"up north" meaning in English

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          "text": "Even if I'm locked up North you in the world\nRocking three-fourths of cloth, never showing your stuff off, boo",
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          "text": "And when the fella be walkin' you can tell a\nWhole lotta sugar's in his core\nFeed the soft, he be hittin' off\nHe heads fresh home from up North",
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