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I Want To Grow. I Want To Be Better. You Grow. We All Grow. We're Made To Grow.you Either Evolve Or You Disappear.

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I Want To Grow. I Want To Be Better. You Grow. We All Grow. We're Made To Grow.you Either Evolve Or You Disappear.

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My Family Tree Consists Of Drug Dealers, Thugs, And Killers.

I Was Raised In This Society So You Can't Expect Me To Be A Perferct Person Cause Ima Do What Ima Do.

If You Walked By A Street And You Was Walking A Concrete And You Saw A Rose Growing From Concrete, Even If It Had Messed Up Petals And It Was A Little To The Side You Would Marvel At Just Seeing A Rose Grow Through Concrete. So Way Is It That When You See Some Ghetto Kid Grow Out Of The Dirtiest Circumstance And He Can Talk And He Can Sit Across The Room And Make You Cry, Make You Laugh, All You Can Talk About Is My Dirty Rose, My Dirty Stems And How Am Leaning Crooked To The Side, U Can't Even See That I've Come Up From Out Of That.

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.

It's No Longer A Fad To Be Down For The Young Black Male. Everybody Wants To Go Past. Like The Gangster Stuff, It Just Got Exploited.

My Cellmate's Raped On The Norm, And Passed Around The Dorm, You Can Hear His Asshole Getting Torn.

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.

I Feel Close To Marvin Gaye, Vincent Van Gogh, Because Nobody Appreciated His Work Until He Was Dead. Now It's Worth Millions.

To Me, I Feel That My Game Is Strong. I Feel As Thought I'm A Shining Prince, Just Like Malcolm, And I Feel That All Of Us Are Shining Princes, And If We Live Like Princes, Then Whatever We Want Can Be Ours. Anything.

It Don't Stop 'til The Casket Drop.

The Realest People Don’t Have A Lot Of Friends.

Can't Close My Eyes Cause All I See Is Terror I Hate The Man In The Mirror Cause His Reflection Makes The Pain Turn Realer

We Wouldn't Ask Why A Rose That Grew From The Concrete For Having Damaged Petals, In Turn, We Would All Celebrate Its Tenacity, We Would All Love Its Will To Reach The Sun, Well, We Are The Roses, This Is The Concrete And These Are My Damaged Petals, Dont Ask Me Why, Thank God, And Ask Me How

My Music Is Not For Everyone. It's Only For The Stong-willed, The [street] Soldiers Music. It's Not Like Party Music- I Mean, You Could Gig To It, But It's Spiritual. My Musi Is Spiritual. It's Like Negro Spiituals, Except For The Fact That I'm Not Saying 'we Shall Overcome.' I'm Saying That We Are Overcome.

I Just Spent 11 And A Half Months In A Maximum-security Jail, Got Shot Five Times, And Was Wrongly Convicted Of A Crime I Didn't Commit.

Before We Find World Peace, We Gotta Find Peace In The War On The Streets.

I'm A Thug. And My Thug Comes From... My Definition Of Thug Comes From Half Of The Street Element. Straight Street Hustling.

Ever Since I Was An Itty Bitty Kitty, Been Drinking Liquor Out Of Mama's Titty.

Sometimes I Sit And Look At Life From A Different Angle.

I Know Death Follows Me, But I Murder Him First.

The Same Crime Element That White People Are Scared Of Black People Are Scared Of. While They Waiting For Legislation To Pass, We Next Door To The Killer. All Them Killers They Let Out, They're In That Building. Just Because We Black, We Get Along With The Killers? What Is That?

Niggaz Need Guns, Too.

The Lesser The Friends, The Lesser The Chances Of Betrayal.

Now Don't You Ever Tell A Lie Just Confide In Me Would You Die 4 Me? Tell Me Baby Would You Ride 4 Me?

I Truly Believe I've Been Blessed By God, And God Walks With Me

Fear No Man But Only God

I Didn't Get That Power From Gunz..coz There's No Gunz In Jail..i Got That Power From Books And From Thinking And Strategizing...... That's What I Want Little Niggaz To See.

Pledge Allegiance To The Flag That Neglects Us.

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

Stay In The Game Until The End Of Time.

Today Is Built On Tragedies, Which No One Wants To Face, Nightmares To Humanities And Morally Disgraced. Tonight Is Filled With Rage, Violence In The Air, Children Bred With Ruthlessness Because No One At Home Cares.

The Seed Must Grow Regardless Of The Fact That It’s Planted In Stone

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.

The Only Time I Have Problems Is When I Sleep.

I Don't Have To Talk About Whether Or Not I Got Raped In Jail.

Went To Church But Don't Understand It, They Underhanded. God Gave Me These Commandments, The World Is Scandalous.

Recollect Your Thoughts Don't Get Caught Up In The Mix ,cause The Media Is Full Of Dirty Tricks.

Tomorrow Comes After The Dark

I Don't Bang For The Color Or The Land. I Bang For The Principles And For The Honor. I'm Bangin' For The Westside- This Is In My Heart, This Is How I Feel.

And Everyday I Read The Paper, There's Another Lie. They Show My Picture For The Crimes Of Another Guy.

A Lot Of People, Black, White, Mexican, Young Or Old, Fat Or Skinny Have A Problem Being True To They Self. They Have A Problem Looking In The Mirror And Looking Directly Into Their Own Souls. Only Reason I Am Who I Am Today Is Because I Can Look Directly Into My Face And Find My Soul

I'm Used On Every Level. I Have No Friends. I Have No Resting Place. I Never Sleep. I Can Never Close My Eyes. It's Horrible.

This Fast Life Soon Shatters, Cause After All The Lights And Screams, Nothing But My Dreams Matter.

The Only Thing That Can Kill Me Is Death, That's The Only Thing That Can Ever Stop Me, Is Death, And Even Then My Music Will Live Forever.

In My Death, People Will Understand What I Was Talking About.

Give Me A Paper And Pen, So I Can Write About My Life Of Sin. A Couple Of Bottles Of Gin, In Case I Don't Get In.

I Bring Truth To Tha Youth Tear Tha Roof Off Tha Ol' School.

Everything In Life Is Not All Beautiful, Not All Fun. There Is Lots Of Killing And Drugs.

I Try To Find My Way In The World You Know, I Try To Be Somebody Instead Of Just, Make Money Off Of Everybody.

Picture Perfect, I Paint A Perfect Picture Bomb The Hoochies Wit' Precision, My Intentions To Get Richer.

A Coward Dies A Thousand Times, A Soldier Dies But Once.

I Know What Good Morals Are, But You're Supposed To Disregard Good Morals When You're Living In A Crazy, Bad World. If You're In Hell, How Can You Live Like An Angel? You're Surrounded By Devils,trying To Be An Angel? That's Like Suicide.

Biggie Came At A Time Just Like Hitler Did With The Germans.

A Woman Bought You Into This World, So You Have No Right To Disrespect One.

My Biggest Fear Of Death Is To Come Back Reincarnated

My Homie Lost His Family And Snapped, Shot Up Half The Block To Bring Them Back.

So Many Other Things For Us To See, Things To Be, Our History So Full Of Tragedy And Misery.

If I Could Patent 'being Real', I Think I Could Own That.

If They Take Half The Buildings That They Use To Praise God And Give It To The Motherfuckers Who Need God We'd Be 'aight

I Struggle To Be Rugged And Raw Dude, Trying To Survive In The Trials And Lawsuits, Everybody Wants To Test Me, Why Me?

God Damn! Drug Dealers Dealin' To The Kiddies, Livin' In The City Ain't No Pity On The Itty-bitty. We Try To Cry, But Still They All Die, I Try To Speak To The Youth, And The Truth Is: They All High.

To Me, A Perfect Album Talks About The Hard Stuff And The Fun And Caring Stuff.

Expose Foes Wit My Hocus Pocus Flows, They Froze Now Suckas Idolize My Chosen Blows

I'm Not A Gangsta Rapper. I Rap About Things That Happen To Me. I Got Shot Five Times. People Was Trying To Kill Me.

I Stop And Stare At The Younger, My Heart Goes To 'em, They Stressed Out And Goin' Under.

You Dont Know Me, You Just Met Me, Well If I Couldnt Have It..silly Rabbit, Why Ya Sweat Me

But Tomorrow I See A Change, A Chance To Build Anew, Built On Spirit, Intent Of Heart, And Ideas Based On Truth. Tomorrow I Wake With Second Wind And Strong Ideas Of Pride. I Know I Fought With All My Heart To Keep The Dream Alive.

Can You Picture My Prophecy?

Drop Them Or Let Them Drop You. I Chose Droppin' That Cop.

That Girl Can Barely Spell Her Name.

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.

Of Course I'm Going To Say "i'm A Thug" That's Because I Came From The Gutter And I'm Still Here!

Gangsta Rap Is Dead. I've Moved On. And The Raps That I'm Rappin To My Community Shouldn't Be Filled With Rage? They Shouldn't Be Filled With Same Attrocities That They Gave Me? The Media They Don't Talk About It, So In My Raps I Have To Talk About It, And It Seems Foreign Because There's No One Else Talking About It.

I Can't Give Up. It's A Rap Thang. And I Ain't Goin Back To The Crack Game.

We Ain't Meant To Survive, Cause It's A Setup, And Even Though You're Fed Up, Huh, Ya Got To Keep Your Head Up.

You Never Stop Loving Someone. You Just Learn To Live Without Them.

Missing Someone

I Looked Up And All I Saw Was Blue Lights. If I Die Tonight, I'm Dying In A Gun Fight.

Can You Imagine What It's Like For You To Be Who I Am, Who I Was, And For Them To Say That I Raped A Woman? And For The Whole World To Actually Be Entertaining The Thought That You Raped A Woman. That's Hell.

And Every Breath I Breathe Untill The Moment I'm Deceased. Will Be Another Moment Ballin' As A 'g'.

If I Upset You, Don't Stress. Never Forget That God Isn't Finished With Me Yet. I Feel His Hand On My Brain... When I Write Rhymes, I Go Blind And Let The Lord Do His Thang.

I'm Just As Guilty For Not Doing Anything As I Am For Doing Things. Not With Case (the 1994 Sexual Abuse Conviction), But Just My Life. I Was So Scared Of This Responsibility That I Was Running Away From It. But I See Now That Whether I Show Up For Work Or Not, The Evil Forces Are Going To Be At Me. They're Going To Come 100 Percent.

In My Brain All I Think About Is Fame.

We Talk A Lot About Malcom X And Martin Luther King Jr, But It's Time To Be Like Them, As Strong As Them. They Were Mortal Men Like Us And Everyone Of Us Can Be Like Them. 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.

When You Do Rap Albums, You Got To Train Yourself. You Got To Constantly Be In Character.

I Don't See Myself Being Special; I Just See Myself Having More Responsibilities Than The Next Man. People Look To Me To Do Things For Them, To Have Answers.

Role Is Something People Play, Model Is Something People Make, Both Of Those Things Are Fake.

For Every Single Dark Night There Is A Brighter Day.

There Ain't Nothin' Like A Black Woman.

Well, The First Two Days In Prison, I Had To Go Through What Life Is Like When You've Been Smoking Weed For As Long As I Have And Then You Stop. Emotionally, It Was Like I Didn't Know Myself.

Evil's Lurking, I Can See Him Smirking.

Now The Whole Worlds Calling Me A Killer All I Ever Did Was Try To Reach The Kids With The Realer.

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?

Life's A Test, Mistakes Are Lessons, But The Gift Of Life Is Knowing That You Have Made A Difference.

I Guess Cause I'm Black Boy, I'm Supposed To Say 'peace', Sing Songs, And Get Capped On.

After A Long Day Of Trying, To Make My Songs Pay, Making Love All Day Against The Wall In The Hallway.

I Am Being Ripped Off, Because I've Never Lied To The Press. Just As Much Truth I Bring To My Work, A Journalist Should Bring That Much Truth To Their Work.

Foreign Languages, I Think They Are Important But I Don't Think It Should Be Required Because-actually I Think They Should Be Teaching You English And Then Teaching You How To Understand Double Talk-a Politician's Double Talk-not Teaching You How To Understand French And Spanish And German, When Am I Going To Germany? I Can't Even Afford To Pay My Rent In America, How Am I Going To Germany?

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.

You Reached Your Level, You Don't Want Any More. We Asked Ten Years Ago, We Were Askin' With The Panthers, We Were Askin' In The Civil Rights Movement. Now Those Who Were Askin' Are All Dead Or In Jail, Wo What Are We Gonna Do? And We Shouldn't Be Angry!?

Only God Can Judge Me That Which Does Not Kill Me Can Only Make Me Stronger. I Don't See Why Everybody Feel As Though That They Gotta Tell Me How To Live My Life

Don't Cry Through Your Dispair.

If That's What The Court Can Do, Then Punish Me More Then I've Been Punished Already.

I Said It In The Beginning. That I Was Gonna Take Them Niggaz Out The Game And Sure Enough I Will. Already People Can't Look At Biggie And Not Laugh.

I'm Not Really A Religious Person. But I Believe That God Wants Me To Do Something And It Has To Do With Thug Life.

I'd Be In My Hotel Room, Smoking Too Much, Drinking, Going To Clubs, Just Being Numb. That Was Being In Jail To Me. I Wasn't Happy At All On The Streets. That Was The Addict Speaking.

I'm Calling For Dialogue. I'm Gathering Attention For Dialogue Which Is What You Do In A Struggle For Power.

When I Die And They Come For Me Bury Me A G.

Mama Gave Birth To A Hell Raising Heavenly Son. See The Doctor Tried To Smack Me, But I Smacked Him Back.

It’s Just Me Against The World.

Me Against The World

I'm Tryin To Make A Dollar Out Of Fifteen Cents It's Hard To Be Legit And Still Pay Tha Rent

Goin Insane, Never Die, Live Eternal, Who Shall I Fear?

Yo Get A Real Job. Rappin Doesn't Pay The Rent, I Hate The Studio Cause That's Where All My Money Went.

For Quiet Times Disappear Listen To The Ocean

They Say Pu$$y And Paper Is Poetry Power And Pistols.

Papa Wasn't Man Enough, Couldn't Stand Up To His Responsibilities. Instead Of Taking Care Of Me, He'd Rather Live Lavishly.

Yellow M&m's Don't Move With Green M&m's. I Mean, You Don't Put M&m's Peanuts With M&m's Plain.

Forgive But Don’t Forget, Girl Keep Your Head Up. And When He Tells You You Ain’t Nothing, Don’t Believe Him. And If He Can’t Learn To Love You, You Should Leave Him.

Losing My Homies In A Hurry, They're Relocating To The Cemetery.

Maybe In Time You'll Understand Only God Can Save Us.

What Of Fame? Everybody Knows Your Name: Never Again Are You Alone.

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.

Niggers Was The Ones On The Rope, Hanging Off The Thing. Niggas Is The Ones With Gold Ropes,hanging Out At Clubs.

I'm Not Saying Girls Are Perfect, Because We All Know That's Not True. But Why Be Unfaithful To Her If She Was True To You.

I Got Love For My Brother But We Can Never Go Nowhere Unless We Share With Each Other.

Love My Brother

It Was Tough Sitting In Jail Listening To Jay Leno And Rush Limbaugh And Everybody Making Jokes About Me Getting Shot. And Watching The Media Report All Kinds Of Lies About Me, Like That I Got Raped In Jail. That Never Happened. But At Least While I Was Locked Down, All The Inmates Gave Me Props Encouragement, And So Did Lots Of Mothers And Kids, Who Wrote Me Letters Of Support.

To All The Seeds That Follow Me Protect Your Essence, Born With Less, But You Still Precious.

It's A Struggle For Every Young Black Man. You Know How It Is, Only God Can Judge Us.

Never Surrender, It's All About The Faith That You Got.

Now The Baby's In The Trash Heap Balling.

During Your Life, Never Stop Dreaming. No One Can Take Away Your Dreams

I Feel Like Our Future Is Our Confidence And Self-esteem.

I'm On My Knees Begging, Please Come And Save Me.

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.

Before I Write I Let My Mind Go Blind And Let The Lord Do His Thing.

Some Say The Blacker The Berry, The Sweeter The Juice I Say The Darker The Flesh Then The Deeper The Roots

I Don't Have No Fear Of Death. My Only Fear Is Coming Back Reincarnated.

Somebody Help Me, Tell Me Where To Go From Here Cause Even Thugs Cry, But Do The Lord Care?

Will I, Succeed, Paranoid From The Weed And Hocus Pocus, Try To Focus But I Can't See.

I'm Doing This For The Kid Who Truly Leads A 'thug Life' And Thinks It's Hopeless.

Everybody Against Me. Why? Why Me? I Have Not Brought Violence To You. I Have Not Brought Thug Life To America. I Didn't Create Thug Life. I Diagnosed It.

I Don't Advocate Senseless Violence Of Any Human Being. I'm The One Who's Been Beat Down. But I Will Not Be A Victim Again.

It's Not Like I Idolize This One Guy Machiavelli. I Idolize That Type Of Thinking Where You Do Whatever's Gonna Make You Achieve Your Goal.

I'm Tired Of Being A Nice Guy, I've Been Poor All My Life, But Don't Know Quite Why.

Many Dreams Is What We Had And Plenty Wishes.

I'm Not Saying I'm Gonna Change The World, But I Guarantee That I Will Spark The Brain That Will Change The World.

Though Things Change, The Future's Still Inside Of Me.

Thanks For Comin Out, God Bless You, Good Night... What Of Fame? Everyone Knows Your Face, The World Screams Your Name And Never Again, Are You Alone...

Let The Lord Judge The Criminals.

The Third Always Speaks The Unspeakable Words.

Don't Look Back Unless It's A Good View.

Why Am I Dying To Live If I'm Just Living To Die.

Only God Can Judge Me

I Didn't Choose The Thug Life, The Thug Life Chose Me.

I Believe In God. Whatever Supposed To Happen Supposed To Happen. But I Can Not Live In A Jail Cell. That's Why I Don't Rob People And Stick Up People.

With All My Fans I Got A Family Again.

And Thats The Way It Was And Thats The Way The Cookie Crumbles

I Remember Crying All The Time. My Major Thing Growing Up Was I Couldn't Fit In. Because I Was From Everywhere, I Didn't Have No Buddies That I Grew Up With...every Time I Had To Go To A New Apartment, I Had To Reinvent Myself, Myself. People Think Just Because You Born In The Ghetto You Gonna Fit In. A Little Twist In Your Life And You Don't Fit In No Matter What. If They Push You Out Of The Hood And The White People's World, That's Criminal...hell, I Felt Like My Could Be Destroyed At Any Moment.

I Did Not Wanted To Become The Victim, So Became The Bully.

Feel Me Now, Picture My Pain, Embrace My Words, Make The World Change.

Born Through Hard Times, Ghetto Child Of Mine. I Wonder If You Have To Suffer For Your Father's Crimes.

If I Was White I Would Have Been Like John Wayne... I Feel Like A Tragic Hero In A Shakespeare Play

Being In Marin City Was Like A Small Town So It Taught Me To Be More [straightforward] With My Style. 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 Thingsin Marin City It Seemed Like Things Were Real Country. Everything Was Straightforward. Poverty Was Straightforward.

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.

Whatever You See You Gotta Keep A Sense Of Humor; You Gotta Be Able To Smile Through All The Bullshit.

Reality Is Wrong. Dreams Are For Real.

It Takes Skill To Be Real. Time To Heal Each Other

Support Me... If You Don't Understand Me Don't Write About Me

When I Talk About Money. All You See Is The Struggle. When I Tell Ya, I'm Livin' Large, You Tell Me, Its Trouble.

I Remember Marvin Gaye Used To Sing To Me, He Had Me Feelin' Like Black Was The Thing To Be.

I'm The Rebel Totally Going Against The Grain. I Always Want To Do The Extreme. I Want To Get As Many People Looking As Possible.

Tomorrow I See Change, A Chance To Build A New. Built On Spirit Intent Of Heart, And Ideals Based On Truth.

Thug Life Hit Me Like The Holy Ghost.

We All Gonna Die, We Bleed From Similar Veins.

Heavenly Father, I'm A Soldier I'm Gettin, Hotter, Cuz The World Is Gettin' Colder.

Hate To Sound Sleazy, But Tease Me, I Don't Want It If It's That Easy

It's Time We Stop Worrying, And Get Angry You Know? But Not Angry And Pick Up A Gun, But Angry And Open Our Minds.

Is It A Crime, To Fight, For What Is Mine?

Everything He Wanna Have-i Got.

Now Ain Nobody Tell Us It Would Be Fair No Love For My Father Cause The Coward Wasn't Their" {tu Pac Shukur}

They Wanna Censor Me, They Ratha See Me In A Cell, Livin' In Hell, With Only A Few Of Us To Live To Tell.

I Don't Understand How People Can Stand Next To You One Year,and Next Year, They Cannot. They're Going Crazy, Screaming. They Can't Take It That You're There. But Last Year I Was In The Same Club,walking Around,lonely Like A Motherfucker. Couldn't Get A Date Or A Dance. I Was Too Skinny, Too Something, And Now, "he's Just Adorable. He's Just, Oh!

I Guarantee If People Keep Mm..supportin' Me....just Buying My Records, Goin To My Concerts, Just Supporting Me..i'ma Keep Givin' Money....like Makaveli, Every Time It Go Platinum, I'm Putting Money Up For Community Centers.

I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto?

Did You Hear About The Rose That Grew From A Crack In The Concrete? Proving Nature's Laws Wrong, It Learned To Walk Without Having Feet. Funny, It Seems To By Keeping It's Dreams; It Learned To Breathe Fresh Air. Long Live The Rose That Grew From Concrete When No One Else Even Cared.

Watch Me, Diamonds Shining Looking Like I Robbed Liberace.

I Feel Like Role Models Today Are Not Meant To Be Put On A Pedestal. But More Like Angels With Broken Wings.

I Want To Grow. I Want To Be Better. You Grow. We All Grow. We're Made To Grow.you Either Evolve Or You Disappear.

Let Me Say For The Record, I Am Not A Gangster And Never Have Been. I`m Not The Thief Who Grabs Your Purse. I`m Not The Guy Who Jacks Your Car. I`m Not Down With The People Who Steal And Hurt Others. I`m Just A Brother Who Fight Back.

When My Mama Asks Me Will I Ever Change, I Tell Her Yeah... But It's Clear I Will Always Be The Same Until The End Of Time.

If You Believe In God, Believe In Death Row East.

The Only Thing That Comes To A Sleeping Man Is Dreams.

Hip Hop Was Supposed To Be This New Thing That Had No Boundaries And Was So Different To Everyday Music. As Long As It Has Soul To It, Hip Hop Can Live On.

The Thing That Bothers Me Is That It Seems Like All The Sensitive Stuff I Write Just Goes Unnoticed . . . The Media Doesn't Get Who I Am At All. Or Maybe They Just Can't Accept It. It Doesn't Fit Into Those Negative Stories They Like To Write. I'm The Kind Of Guy Who Is Moved By A Song Like Don Mclean's "vincent," That One About Van Gogh. The Lyric On That Song Is So Touching. That's How I Want To Make My Songs Feel. Take "dear Mama" - I Aimed That One Straight For My Homies' Heartstrings.

First Ship Them Dope, Let Them Deal To Brothers, Give Them Guns, Step Back And Watch Them Kill Each Other.

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.

There Should Be A Class On Drugs. There Should Be A Class On Sex Education-a Real Sex Education Class-not Just Pictures And Diaphragms And 'un-logical' Terms And Things Like That.....there Should Be A Class On Scams, There Should Be A Class On Religious Cults, There Should Be A Class On Police Brutality, There Should Be A Class On Apartheid, There Should Be A Class On Racism In America, There Should Be A Class On Why People Are Hungry, But There Are Not, There Are Classes On Gym, Physical Education, Let's Learn Volleyball.

It's Gonna Take The Man In Me To Conquer This Insanity.

Thug Life To Me Is Dead.

Everybody’s At War With Different Things…i’m At War With My Own Heart Sometimes.

When Your Hero Falls From Grace, All Fairy Tales Are Uncovered Myth Exposed And Pain Magnified, The Grace Pays Uncovered He Told Me To Be Strong, But I Confused To See It So Weak You Say Never To Give Up, And It Hurts To See What Comes To Be When Your Hero Falls Soley The Stars, And So Does The Reception Of Tomorrow Without My Hero, Theres Only Me Alone, To Deal With My Sorrow Your Heart Ceases To Work, And Your Soul Is Not Happy At All What Are You Expected To Do, When Your Only Hero Falls

I Am Society’s Child. This Is How They Made Me And Now I’m Sayin’ What’s On My Mind And They Don’t Want That. This Is What You Made Me, America.

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