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I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.

Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
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Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.
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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.
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All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.
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Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised
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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.
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Drop them or let them drop you. I chose droppin' that cop.
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If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.
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And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.
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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.
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Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.
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My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there's something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.
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Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!
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My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack
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It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'
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It's hard to care when no one loves you.
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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.
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Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.
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A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.
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There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated
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If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.
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