"Everybody's at war with different
things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes".
Tupac Shakur |
"All good niggers, all
the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular
ways." Tupac Shakur in Details magazine interview, spring 1996.
Tupac Shakur |
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for
real.
Tupac Shakur |
I believe that everything that you do
bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to
suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel
like I'm going to heaven.
Tupac Shakur |
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I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see
visions of me dead, Lord are you there? Tupac
Shakur |
"Live by the gun die by the gun."
Tupac Shakur |
Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy
on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me
for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.
Tupac Shakur |
A coward dies a thousand deaths; A soldier dies but
once. Tupac Shakur |
I’d rather die like a man than live like a coward.
Tupac Shakur |
I'm just as guilty for not
doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual
abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility
that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for
work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come
100 percent.
Tupac Shakur |
Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but
fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the
end no matter how hard we fight.
Tupac Shakur |
"When my Heart Can Beat No More
I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for"
Tupac Shakur
|
Even though i'm marked
for death, i'm a spark till i lose my breath
Tupac Shakur |
Only God can judge me.
Tupac Shakur |
I thought i had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies
lonely.
Tupac Shakur |
Picture Me Rollin
Tupac Shakur |
My only fear of death is comin back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur |
We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King
JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men
like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role
model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who i am, this is what i
do. I say what's on my mind.
Tupac Shakur |
The only thing America respects is power and power
concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing
changed since.
Tupac Shakur |
I am societies child, this is how they made me, and
now im sayin what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you
made me America.
Tupac Shakur |
Though are hands are chained like they are, they
haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me
don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.
Tupac Shakur |
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur |
The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady
liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom, education, and
equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you
made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.
Tupac Shakur |
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and
never have been. Im not the thief who grabs your purse. Im not the guy who
jacks your car. Im not down with the people who steal and hurt others. Im
just a brother who fight back.
Tupac Shakur |
Let the Lord judge the criminals.
Tupac Shakur |
Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin
it.
Tupac Shakur |
Support me... If you
don't understand me don't write about me
Tupac Shakur |
Suge is the boss of
Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's
my job to what's best for Death Row
Tupac Shakur |
I never thought I was
the best rapper the best nothing'. I think I'm the realist nigga out there
Tupac Shakur |
People might be, like,
"This niggas conceited," but fuck it. I feel like I shine. And I don't give
a fuck how many white people, the Media, black people, playa haters, police,
whoever, try to darken my shine, Im'a always shine through
Tupac Shakur |
All I can say is I
always try to be a real nigga in my heart. Sometimes its good, sometimes
it's bad; but its still us. Its never to hurt anybody
Tupac Shakur |
I truly believe I've
been blessed by God, and God walks with me
Tupac Shakur |
If you walked by a
street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from
concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side
you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it
that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and
he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh,
all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning
crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that
Tupac Shakur |
Thug Life hit me like
the Holy ghost.
Thug Life hit me like the
Holy ghost
Tupac Shakur |
I smoke blunt to take
the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
Tupac Shakur |
America, America,
America, I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault.
Tupac Shakur |
One day I'm gonna bust,
blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of
humanity.
Tupac Shakur |
My Mama used to tell me if u can't find
somethin to live for, you best find somethin to die for.
Tupac Shakur |
I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the
principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my
heart, this is how I feel.
Tupac Shakur |
I was the truest nigga involved in Biggie's success.
Tupac Shakur |
Biggie is not a playa. He's never been. He's never had
bitches until he got some fuckin' money. That's a trick-that's not a playa.
Tupac Shakur |
Everything he wanna have-I got.
Tupac Shakur |
Biggie forgot. The same shit that made him wanna kick
it with me is the same shit that's whoopin' his ass right now.
Tupac Shakur |
I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them
niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at
Biggie and not laugh.
Tupac Shakur |
Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all
of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.
Tupac Shakur |
Stole my lyrics. I stole his bitch. Took my rhymes. I
took his wife. If he talk all that shit about being a playa and I got his
wife two days after I got outta jail- imagine that gangsta shit he's
talking, imagine how plastic that shit is.
Tupac Shakur |
How many bruthas fell victim to the street rest in
peace young nigga there's a heaven for a G, It'd be a lie if I told you that
I never thought of death, My niggaz, we the last ones left, Life goes on...
Tupac Shakur |
Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket
Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used
to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe
Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple
bottles of gin, in case I don't get in...
Tupac Shakur |
Last year we poured out liquor for ya'll
This year nigga life goes on We're gonna lock down Get money, evade bitches,
evade tricks, give playaz plenty of space
And basically represent for you baby
Next time you see your niggaz we gonna be on top They're gonna be like damn
them niggaz came up That's right baby, life goes on
Tupac Shakur |
Maybe now niggaz feel me now
Picture my pain
Embrace my words
Make the world change
And still I smile nigga
Tupac Shakur
|
Dangerous and ambitious while schemin' on gettin'
riches. I'm spittin' at tricks cuz I'm addicted to pretty bitches.
Currency motivated, not easily terminated,
Now that we made it, my niggaz can never be faded. This is my
prophecy, I gotta be paid
All you cowards that try to stop me is beggin' for early graves I thought we
was cool I was a fool. Thinkin' you could be true, when I don't fuck with
your punk crew
Tupac Shakur |
Your body is bangin' baby I love it when you flaunt it
Time to give it to daddy nigga now tell me how you want it.
Tupac Shakur |
I heard a rumor I died
Murdered in cold blood dramatized
Pictures of me in my final state
You know mama cried
But that was fiction
Some coward got the story twisted
Like I no longer existed
Mysteriously missin'
I'm known worldwide baby
I ain't hard to find
Tupac Shakur |
Now on this ride there's gonna be some real
muthafuckas and there is gonna be some pussies. Now the real niggaz
are gonna be the ones with money and bitches
The pussies are gonna be the niggaz on the floor bleedin'. Now
everybody keep you eyez on the prize cuz the ride gets tricky
See you got some niggaz on your side
That say they your friends but in real life they your enemies And then you
got some muthafuckas that say they your enemies
But in real life those niggaz will be the snitches
It's a dirty game ya'll
Ya'll gotta be careful about who you fuck with and who you don't fuck with
Cuz the shit get wild ya'll
Keep your mind on your riches baby
Keep your mind on your riches.
Tupac Shakur |
don't player hate don't discriminate participate before i punch you in your
face, cause you know i don't play..
Tupac Shakur
|
Sheddin tears, reminiscin on my past fears
Cause shit was hectic for
me last year
It appears that I've been marked for death, my heartless
breath
The underlying cause of my arrest, my life is stressed
And no rest
forever weary, my eyes stay teary
for all the brothers that are buried in the
cemetery
Tupac Shakur |
I'm not the king. I'm not the teacher or
nothing like that, but I feel like I don't have no peers. l've been out les
than a year, convicted of allegations that usually end niggas careers. Shot
five times in the nuts and the head. I came out and in less than a fuckin'
year and outsold Biggie almost three times. I sold more records than his
whole fuckin' label.
Tupac Shakur |
I'm gonna change the rules in the rap game. You know,
how, like politics, the Republicans are in now; well, I represent that
style; I'm the new nigga, I'ma shake up the whole Congress, by puttin' out a
double-album-that nobody ever did-I had the most expensive album on the
Charts...and I outsold everyone of them muthafuckas. And I did it in two
months.
Tupac Shakur |
The real tragedy is that there are some
ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all
Black shit. I'm on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever
color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there's some [foul]
niggaz out there [in the streets]; the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the
same niggaz that did Jesus Christ- every brother ain't a brother. They will
do you. So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because
it's White don't mean it's evil.
Tupac Shakur |
To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel
as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of
us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want
can be ours. Anything.
Tupac Shakur |
There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.
Tupac Shakur |
My music is not for everyone. It's only for
the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I
mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's
like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall
Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.
Tupac Shakur |
I remember crying all the time. My major
thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I
didn't have no buddies that I grew up with...Every time I had to go to a new
apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you
born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you
don't fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White
people's world, that's criminal...Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at
any moment.
Tupac Shakur |
We are in the midst of a very dangerous,
non-productive, self-destructive civil war. And it's not just rap shit. It's
ideals. And this rap shit is just bringin' it to a head. The East Coast
believe one thing, and the West Coast believer one thing. The East Coast got
one way of life, the West Coast got another wayof life, it always
co-existed. We're coming to the turn of the century where we gotta mash
together. But we can only do it one way, one style. And that's what we're
trying to figure out now, and I think the world is watching that.
Tupac Shakur |
To me, it reall y troubling because I took
ouver at that's successful- Marky Mark, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, New Kids On The
Block selling twenty-two million copies, and I want that [kind of success]
so badly, but I can't do that. I would be wrong to do that, knowing what I
know and having the brain that I have, for me to even go and write some
simple shit would be wrong even though I would get paid and I would get more
people's money. I would rather leave something so that when people pick up
2pacalypse Now or any of my other albums in 1999, they'll go, Damn! Brothers
had it hard back in the day, but brother were working it out.
Tupac Shakur
|
Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on.
Tupac Shakur
|
And the raps that I'm rappin to
my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with
same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so
in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no
one else talking about it."
Tupac Shakur |
If you know in this hotel room
they have food every day and I knock on the door. Every day they open
tha door to let me see tha party, let me see that they throwin' salami,
throwin' food around telling me there's no food. Every day. I'm
standing outside tryin to sing my way in- "We are weak, please let us in.
We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change
to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like
"Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's
like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like,
"I'm hungry."
You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we
were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement.
Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do?
And we shouldn't be angry!?
Tupac Shakur |
I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just
buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin'
money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for
community centers.
Tupac Shakur |
And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you
of the things you were made to forget.
Tupac Shakur |
There's no way I can pay ya back, but my plan is to
show ya that I understand.
Tupac Shakur
|
I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz
in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and
strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.
Tupac Shakur |
Don't shed a tear for me, nigga I ain't happy here, I
hope they bury me and send me to my rest, headlines reading murdered to
death, my last breath.
Tupac Shakur |
Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in
the ghetto, do or die.
Tupac Shakur |
My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual,
like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal
with, we need to talk straight up and down.
Tupac Shakur |
I don't see why everybody feel as thou that they gotta
tell me how to live my life (you know), Let me live baby, Let me live.
Tupac Shakur |
I believe that everything you do bad comes back to
you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in
my heart, I believe what I'm doing in my heart is right. So I feel like I 'm
going to heaven.
Tupac Shakur |
Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's,
next, In this world full of countless threats.
Tupac Shakur |
I don't advocate senseless violence of any human
being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
Tupac Shakur |
Fuck the fame, I still won't change, are you still
down?
Tupac Shakur
|
This is my prophecy, I gotta be paid, All you cowards
that try to stop me is beggin' for early graves, I thought we was cool I was
a fool, Thinkin' you could be true, when I don't fuck with your punk crew.
Tupac Shakur |
How many bruthas fell victim to the street rest in
peace young nigga there's a heaven for a G, It'd be a lie if I told you that
I never thought of death, My niggaz, we the last ones left, Life goes on.
Tupac Shakur |
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood
dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that
was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed,
Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.
Tupac Shakur |
Walked in the store what's everybody staring at, They
act like they never seen a mutha fucker wearing black, Following a nigga and
shit, Ain't this a bitch, All I wanted was some chips.
Tupac Shakur |
God come save the youth
Ain't nothin else to do but have faith in you
Dear Lord I live the life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my
mistakes, I gotta play my hand.
Tupac Shakur |
They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be
silent.
Tupac Shakur
|
You know it's funny when it rains it pours, They got
money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
Tupac Shakur |
Mr. Police, Please Try to see, That there's a million
muthafuckas stressin' just like me.
Tupac Shakur
|
So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our
history so full of tragedy and misery.
Tupac Shakur |
I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say
'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.
Tupac Shakur |
My only fear of death is comin back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur |
They should've shot me when I was born, Now I'm
trapped in the muthafuckin' storm.
Tupac Shakur |
We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And
even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.
Tupac Shakur |
It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies
lying dead on the pavement twisted.
Tupac Shakur |
They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my
own kind doin' all the killin' here.
Tupac Shakur |
I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my
life, but don't know quite why.
Tupac Shakur |
I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to
survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?
Tupac Shakur |
Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make
it.
Tupac Shakur |
I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to
be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.
Tupac Shakur |
Don't ever stop, just push until you hit the top, and
if you try, atleast you know you gave your all, be true to you, and that way
you can never fall ... be true to you, believe that there is no one bigger,
cause they can all suck dick.
Tupac Shakur |
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur |
And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.
Tupac Shakur |
While I'm dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear
them suckas scheming.
Tupac Shakur |
I ain't racist but lets trade places.
Tupac Shakur |
A thug nigga drinkin hard liquor, This ghetto life has
got me catchin up to God quicker.
Tupac Shakur
|
I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol'
school.
Tupac Shakur
|
No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand,
Convinced this is my year.
Tupac Shakur |
They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell,
livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.
Tupac Shakur |
He was a nice middle class nigga, But nobody knew the
evil he'd do when he got little bigger.
Tupac Shakur |
Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I
fear?
Tupac Shakur
|
Study your lessons, don't settle for less.
Tupac Shakur
|
Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.
Tupac Shakur |
Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent
I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.
Tupac Shakur
|
Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my
soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.
Tupac Shakur
|
A thug nigga drinkin hard liquor, This ghetto life has
got me catchin up to God quicker.
Tupac Shakur
|
First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give
them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.
Tupac Shakur
|
I'm tired of being a nice guy, i've been poor all my
life, but don't know quite why, so they label me a lunatic, could care less
death or success, is what I quest cause i'm fearless.
Tupac Shakur
|
This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the
lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.
Tupac Shakur |
Stabbin for a fee, it gets hard on the fuckin streets,
It's like a madness, fuck making gravy
I rhyme and do crimes, cuz either way pays me A little rough with a
hardcore... theme
Couldn't rough something rougher in your dreams.
Tupac Shakur |
As far as jealousy, being a celebrity,
No matter who committed the crime, they all yell at me. And the media is
greedier than most. You could sell em your soul and they'll be on ya
till a nigga's a ghost.
And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for
the crimes of another guy.
Tupac Shakur |
Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got
don't ever stop, just push it til you hit the top and if you drop, at least
you know you gave your all be true to you, and that way you can never fall.
Tupac Shakur |
Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz
aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.
Tupac Shakur |
"Now I was born alone, took my first joint and I got
high alone Now I'm an Outlaw nigga, I never die alone.
Tupac Shakur |
Down to die, for everything I represent
Meant every word, in my letter to the President.
Tupac Shakur |
You want us to fight your war
What the fuck I'm fightin for?
Shit, I ain't got no love here
I ain't had a check all year.
Tupac Shakur |
Burnin' churches, fearin' God
Who can be so cruel
We all ignorant to AIDS
Till it happens to you.
Tupac Shakur |
Thinkin with your brains blown that would make the
pain go No! You got to find a way to survive cause they win when your soul
dies.
Tupac Shakur |
How can I survive? Got me askin white Jesus
will a nigga live or die, cause the Lord can't see us in the deep dark
clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine No sunny days and we only play
sometimes.
Tupac Shakur |
And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary
gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.
Tupac Shakur |
Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me.
Stranded on welfare, another broken family.
Tupac Shakur |
And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me
anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I
approach em.
Tupac Shakur |
Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a
black queen mama.
Tupac Shakur |
You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a
people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change
the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the
old way wasn't working so its on US, to do what we gotta do to survive.
Tupac Shakur |
Deloris Tucker
you's a muthafucker
instead of tryin' to help a nigga
you destroy a brotha.
Tupac Shakur
|
When I talk about money.
All you see is the struggle.
When I tell ya, I'm livin' large
you tell me, its trouble.
Tupac Shakur |
Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up
Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and
I know it's tha best side.
Tupac Shakur |
And every breath I breathe untill the moment
I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.
Tupac Shakur |
My only fear of death is reincarnation
heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.
Tupac Shakur |
Went to church but don't understand it, they
underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.
Tupac Shakur |
United we stand divided we fall. They
can shoot one nigga. But they can't take us all.
Tupac Shakur |
'Cause if God wrote the Bible, I'm sure there
would have been a revised copy
by now. 'Cause a lot of shit has changed. I've been looking for this revised
copy.
I still see that same old copy that we had from then. I'm not disrespecting
anyone's religion, please forgive me if it comes off that way, I'm just
stating my opinion.
Tupac Shakur
|
Bill Clinton
Mr. Bob Dole
You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.
Tupac Shakur |
I can't give up.
It's a rap thang.
And I ain't goin back to the crack game.
Tupac Shakur |
I'm in jail now, but I'm free. My mind is
free. The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Tupac Shakur |
That which does not kill me can only make me
stronger.
Tupac Shakur |
If we really are saying that rap is an art
form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see
everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you
didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them.
Tupac Shakur |
But I see now that whether I show up for work
or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100
percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And
thats why I'm losing.
Tupac Shakur |
How many niggas want to be involved,
see I was only talking Biggie
but I'll kill all of y'all.
Tupac Shakur
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And did you ever stop to think that I'm old enough to
go to war but I aint old enough to drink.
Tupac Shakur |
I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em,
they stressed out and goin' under.
Tupac Shakur
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It's going to happen. All good niggas, all
the niggas who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular
ways. Motherfuckas come take their lives.
Tupac Shakur |
To me, it really troubling
because I took ouver at that's successful- Marky Mark, Hammer, Vanilla Ice,
New Kids On The Block selling twenty-two million copies, and I want that so
badly, but I can't do that. I would be wrong to do that, knowing what I know
and having the brain that I have, for me to even go and write some simple
shit would be wrong even though I would get paid and I would get more
people's money. I would rather leave something so that when people pick up
2pacalypse Now or any of my other albums in 1999, they'll go, Damn! Brothers
had it hard back in the day, but brother were working it out.
Tupac Shakur |
Why isn't it hip-hop when I do
it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences
and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it,
it's war.
Tupac Shakur |
If you walked by a street and
you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if
it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at
just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see
some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he
can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk
about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the
side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.
Tupac Shakur |
I smoke blunt to take the pain
out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
Tupac Shakur |
And the raps that I'm rappin to
my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with
same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so
in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no
one else talking about it.
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Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now
suckas idolize my chosen blows
Tupac Shakur |
Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we
should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
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