"Everybody's at war
with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes".
Tupac Shakur
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"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
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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"Live
by the gun die by the gun."
Tupac Shakur
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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
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A
coward dies a thousand deaths; A soldier dies but once.
Tupac Shakur
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I’d
rather die like a man than live like a coward.
Tupac Shakur
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My
only fear of death is comin back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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"When my Heart Can Beat No More I
hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for"
Tupac Shakur
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Even though i'm
marked for death, i'm a spark till i lose my breath
Tupac Shakur
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Only
God can judge me.
Tupac Shakur
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I
thought i had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.
Tupac Shakur
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Picture Me Rollin
Tupac Shakur
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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 Shaku
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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
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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
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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
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The
only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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Let
the Lord judge the criminals.
Tupac Shakur
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Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance
to spin it.
Tupac Shakur
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Support me... If you
don't understand me don't write about me
Tupac Shakur
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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
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I never thought I was
the best rapper the best nothing'. I think I'm the realist nigga out
there
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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I truly believe I've
been blessed by God, and God walks with me
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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 Shaku
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I smoke blunt to take
the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
Tupac Shakur
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America, America,
America, I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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My Mama used to tell me if u can't find
somethin to live for, you best find somethin to die for.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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I
was the truest nigga involved in Biggie's success.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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Everything
he wanna have-I got.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Maybe
now niggaz feel me now
Picture my pain
Embrace my words
Make the world change
And still I smile nigga
Tupac Shakur
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Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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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
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don't player hate don't discriminate participate
before i punch you in your face, cause you know i don't play..
Tupac Shakur
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There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
|
Thug Life hit me like
the Holy ghost.
Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost
Tupac Shaku
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And
now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were
made to forget.
Tupac Shakur
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There's
no way I can pay ya back, but my plan is to show ya that I understand.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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Mama
raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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Fuck
the fame, I still won't change, are you still down?
Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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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
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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
|
Bill Clinton
Mr. Bob Dole
You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.
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.
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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.
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I can't give up.
It's a rap thang.
And I ain't goin back to the crack game.
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I'm in jail now, but I'm free. My mind is free. The
only time I have problems is when I sleep.
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That which does not kill me can only make me
stronger.
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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.
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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.
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How
many niggas want to be involved,
see I was only talking Biggie
but I'll kill all of y'all.
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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
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I
stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out
and goin' under.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out
and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
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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
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Expose
foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen
blows
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Should
we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when
we buried Malcom X
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