Tupac Shakur Rapper Quotations

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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.

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.

When I die and they come for me bury me a g.

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

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.

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

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.

Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

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.

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

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.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

While I'm dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

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.

Everything he wanna have-I got.

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

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.

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.

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.

How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.

I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.

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.

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

Only God can judge me.

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

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.

First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.

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.

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

I'm a reflection of the community.

You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

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.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

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.

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

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.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

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.

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.

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.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.

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

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

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.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

I ain't racist but lets trade places.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

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.

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.

My only fear of death is reincarnation

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

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!?

When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for