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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.

Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
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My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.
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Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.
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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.
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Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)
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It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
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Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?
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I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
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And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.
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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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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.
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Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.
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Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.
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Though things change, the future's still inside of me.
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If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.
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I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
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Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.
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Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.
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I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.
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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
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Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.
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