36 Tupac Shakur Quotes on Community

Tupac Shakur quotes on community

4. You grew up, we grew up B.C. Before crack. That's just saying it all. You understand? You don't have parents... You have young kids, fourteen, coming home and their mama is smoking out, going to their best friend to get the product.

5. It's not just about you taking care of your child. It's about you taking care of these children.

10. I am the future of black America.

42. I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere/unless we share with each other

43. We gotta start makin' changes/learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers/and that's how it's supposed to be/How can another take a brother if he's close to me?

51. We gotta make a change. It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.

56. Me, a born leader, never leave the block without my my heata/Got me a dog and named him my bitch nigga eata

62. Tell me young nigga never learned a thang/Dead at thirteen cause he yearned to bang/Snipped a lot of flowers, but how can I cry/Tried to warn the little nigga either stop or die

101. From small time crooks to big-time drug dealers/My homeboys, the only thing a ni**a got left/I love my ni**az to death, we ain't s**t without our homeboys/.. You know what time it is/I ain't s**t without my homeboys

104. My ni**a Edi had a son we all happy/Cause now that little ridah got to deal with eight daddies

105. My ni**az cry, we all cry, and all ride/To rectify the problem, motherf**kers they all die

160. life in tha hood is all good for nobody

163. to my niggas from old blocks/from old crews/niggas that guided me through/back in tha old school

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

187. And they say it's the white man I should fear, but it's my own kind doing all the killing here

188. Now we was once two niggaz of the same kind/Quick to holla at a hoochie with the same line/You was just a little smaller but you still rolled/Got stretched to Y.A. and hit the hood swoll

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

202. Picture us inside a ghetto heaven, a place to rest/Findin peace through this land of stress

205. I beg God, to make a way for our ghetto kids to breathe/Show a sign, make us all believe

206. Plus all my homies wanna die, call it euthanasia/Dear Lord, look how sick this ghetto made us

212. What they want from us motherf**kin thug niggaz?/Used to love niggaz now I plug niggaz, and slug niggaz

224. We found a family spot to kick it/Where we can drink liquor and no one bickers over trick shit/A spot where we can smoke in peace, and even though we G's/We still visualize places, that we can roll in peace/And in my mind's eye I see this place, the players go in fast/I got a spot for us all, so we can ball, at thug's mansion

225. Nobody cares, seen the politicians ban us/They'd rather see us locked in chains, please explain/why they can't stand us, is there a way for me to change?/Or am I just a victim of things I did to maintain?/I need a place to rest my head/with the little bit of homeboys that remains, cause all the rest dead

231. Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about what tha streets do to me/Cause they never talk peace in tha black community

261. God damn it's a motherfuckin riot/Black people only hate police so don't try it/If you're not from the town then don't pass through

266. Predicted the shit, in 2Pacalypse/And for once I was down with niggaz, felt good/in the hood bein around the niggaz

274. And suddenly tha ghetto didn't seem so tough/And though we had it rough, we always had enough

283. You can't complain you was dealt this/hell of a hand without a man, feelin helpless

304. And coming new, he'd do tha same thang if he could/Cuz in the hood true homies make you feel good

305. And half the time we be acting up call tha cops/Bringing the cease to tha peace that was on my block/It never stop, when my mama ask me will I change/I tell her yeah, but it's clear I'll always be tha same/Until the end of time

315. But let's agree on strategy and pick out enemies right/Who stands accused of the abuse my own, kind do right

329. Multiple gunshots fill the block the fun stops niggas calling cops, people shot nobody stop , I wonder when the world stop caring last night, two kids shot while the whole block staring

333. Through the intermissions search your heart for a plan/and we turnin Bad Boys to grown men, it's on again

359. We went from brothers and sisters, to niggaz and bitches/We went from welfare livin, to worldwide riches

360. But somethin changed in this dirty game, everything's strange/Lost all my homies over cocaine.. mayne

394. Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.

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