Tupac Shakur Rap Quotations

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

If we're all saying that rap is an artform then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up... Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone..

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

I was raised in the city, shitty Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household, And drinking liquor til' you out cold

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.

I'm down for you, so ride with me. My enemies your enemies, Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to geting pussy.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Can you picture my prophecy?

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

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.

If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget That God isn't finished with me yet. I feel His hand on my brain... When I write rhymes, I go blind and let the Lord do His thang.

I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. 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.

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke...