Tupac Shakur

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.

Tupac Shakur

My music will mean something. I’ll have my own production company. I’m doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

Tupac Shakur

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don’t want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

Tupac Shakur

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

Tupac Shakur

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn’t glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It’s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

Tupac Shakur

No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing it’s hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

Tupac Shakur

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

Tupac Shakur

Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.

Tupac Shakur

Now up and atom it’s on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what’s strange is nobody knew my name.

Tupac Shakur

Of course I’m going to say ‘I’m a thug’ that’s because I came from the gutter and I’m still here!

Tupac Shakur