Tupac Shakur Quotes on Identity
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It's not going to stop until we stop it. And it's not just white man that's brain-dead. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's black. And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
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I am the future of black America.
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some other people say I also look alot like Montel williams...seriously, do I?
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Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living, and my mentality, was part of my progression to be a man.
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Menacin' Methodz/Label Me a Lethal Weapon/Witnessing Breathless Imperfectionz
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Me, a born leader, never leave the block without my my heata/Got me a dog and named him my bitch nigga eata
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Gutter ways my mentality is ghetto/We're guerillas in this criminal war, we all rebels
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We came for murder, pullin' up in a herse/Westside was the war cry bustin' all freely screaming fuck all ya'll niggas in Swahili
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In your wildest dreams, you couldn't picture a nigga like me!
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Until I die, they label me as a ridah/Forever, my ni**az be together
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my alias is Boss
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i'm a Boss Playa gettin' high/and when i'm rollin' by/Niggas Can't C Me
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my own momma say im thugged out/my shit be bumpin out tha record store/as if it was a drug house/my lyrics bang like a Crip or Blood
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Nobody loves me I'm a thug nigga; I only hung out/with the criminals and the drug dealers, I love niggaz
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But now things change/cuz you don't look the same/let the ghetto get the best of you/baby, that's a shame
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I got your name tatted on my arm/so we both ball till' my dying days/before I say goodbye/Kato and Mental rest in peace/Thug till I die
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nobody cries when we die/we outlaws/let me ride
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And they say it's the white man I should fear/But, it's my own kind doin all the killin here
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Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here/Cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
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I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward/There's a ghetto up in Heaven and it's ours, Black Power is what we scream as we dream in a paranoid state/And our fate, is a lifetime of hate
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Criminal ties for centuries, a legend in my own rhymes
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Collect calls to the till, sayin how ya changed/Oh you a Muslim now, no more dope game/Heard you might be comin home, just got bail/Wanna go to the Mosque, don't wanna chase tail
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Til God return me to my essence/Cause even as a adolescents, I refuse to be a convalescent
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So many questions, and they ask me if I'm still down/I moved up out of the ghetto, so I ain't real now?/They got so much to say, but I'm just laughin at cha
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sincerely yours/I'm a thug, the product of a broken home
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Where do niggaz go when we die?/Ain't no heaven for a thug nigga/That's why we go to thug mansion/That's the only place where thugs get in free and you gotta be a G
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There must be another route, way out/To money and fame, I changed my name/And played a different game
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Now I'm back to set the record straight/With my A-K/I'm still the thug that you love to hate/Mutha-fucka I'll Hit 'Em Up
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So mandatory my elevation my lyrics like orientation/So you can be more familiar with tha nigga you facin/We must be based on nothin better than communication
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I heard a rumour I died, murdered in cold blood dramatized/Pictures of me in my final stage you know Mama cried/But that was fiction, some coward got the story twisted/Like I no longer existed, mysteriously missin
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Predicted the shit, in 2Pacalypse/And for once I was down with niggaz, felt good/in the hood bein around the niggaz
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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
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Now who's to say if I was right or wrong?/To live my life as an outlaw all along
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Remember me, as an outcast outlaw/Another album out that's what I'm about, more
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Supreme ideology, you claim to hold/Claimin that we all drug dealers with empty souls
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And in case you don't know, ghetto born black seeds still grow/We comin back, for everything you owe
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I will never understand this society, first they try/to murder me, then they lie to me, product of a dying breed
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If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.
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June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell raising heavenly son.
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My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.
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The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.
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I live the life of a thug, Live it and Die for it!
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M.O.B. stands for Money Over Bitches, Member of Blood, or The Mob.
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N.I.G.G.A stands for Never Ignorant about Getting Goals Accomplished or No Ignorance Got Goals Accomplished
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Me Against the World (1995)
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Tupac Resurrection (2003)