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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.
Tupac Shakur
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Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
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Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.
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Can you picture my prophecy?
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So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.
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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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Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet
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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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Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.
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The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.
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If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.
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The third always speaks the unspeakable words.
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All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to survive here in this country... 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. We got to survive here. And for us to survive here-White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans-we got to understand each other.
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I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.
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Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.
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Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
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You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.
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Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.
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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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And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.
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Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.
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I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.
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