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Just Because I Write Some Songs About Bad Women, Though, That Doesn't Mean I Hate Women. I've Written Songs That Show Great Love And Respect For Women Too. Songs That Talk About Strong, Upstanding Women And Their Pain. I Have Women Working On My Music. They Understand Where I'm Coming From. So Does My Mama. I Always Play My Music For Her Before It Comes Out. Why Do You Think I Wrote "dear Mama"? I Wrote It For My Mama Because I Love Her And I Felt I Owed Her Something Deep.

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Tupac Shakur

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Just Because I Write Some Songs About Bad Women, Though, That Doesn't Mean I Hate Women. I've Written Songs That Show Great Love And Respect For Women Too. Songs That Talk About Strong, Upstanding Women And Their Pain. I Have Women Working On My Music. They Understand Where I'm Coming From. So Does My Mama. I Always Play My Music For Her Before It Comes Out. Why Do You Think I Wrote "dear Mama"? I Wrote It For My Mama Because I Love Her And I Felt I Owed Her Something Deep.

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You Gotta Find A Way To Survive Cause They Win When Your Soul Dies.

Set Me Up, Wet Me Up, Niggas Stuck Me Up... Heard The Guns Bust, But You Tricks Never Shut Me Up.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Dear Mama, Don't Cry, Your Baby Boy's Doin' Good, Tell The Homies I'm In Heaven, And They Ain't Got Hoods. Seen A Show With Marvin Gaye Last Night, It Had Me Shook, Drippin' Peppermint Schnapps, With Jackie Wilson, And Sam Cooke.

I'd Rather Die Like A Man, Than Live Like A Coward

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

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.

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

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

I'm Not Saying I'm Going To Rule The World, I'm Going To Change The World. But I Guarantee I Will Spark The Brain That Will Change The World. And That's Our Job. It's To Spark Somebody Else Watching Us. We Might Not Be The One, But Let's Not Be Selfish. And Because We['re] Not Going To Change The World, Not Talk About How We Should Change It. I Don't Know How To Change It. But I Know If I Keep Talking About How Dirty It Is Out Here, Somebody's Going To Clean It Up!

My Mother Taught Me Three Things: Respect, Knowledge, Search For Knowledge. It's An Eternal Journey.

Can't Nobody Touch Me Right Now. Maybe Next Month All Of This Will Be Over. But This Month I'm Takin' Every Movin' Target Out.

Play The Game, Never Let The Game Play You.

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

Be Grateful For Blessings, Don't Ever Change, Keep Your Essence. The Power Is In The People And Politics We Address.

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

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

Don't Cry Through Your Dispair.

Everything He Wanna Have-i Got.

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.

I Ain't Racist But Lets Trade Places.

Once People Take Time To Find Out Who I Really Am You'd Be Surprised

We All Gonna Die, We Bleed From Similar Veins.

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

Take A Look At My Family, A Different Father Every Weekend.

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.

There’s No Way That Michael Jackson Or Whoever Jackson Should Have A Million Thousand Droople Billion Dollars And Then There’s People Starving. There’s No Way! There’s No Way That These People Should Own Planes And There People Don’t Have Houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I Know You’re Rich. I Know You Got 40 Billion Dollars, But Can You Just Keep It To One House? You Only Need One House. And If You Only Got Two Kids, Can You Just Keep It To Two Rooms? I Mean Why Have 52 Rooms And You Know There’s Somebody With No Room?! It Just Don’t Make Sense To Me. It Don’t.

People Die And People Cry People Want Me Dead.

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.

Pledge Allegiance To The Flag That Neglects Us.

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

Even The Genius Ask Questions.

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.

Just Because I Write Some Songs About Bad Women, Though, That Doesn't Mean I Hate Women. I've Written Songs That Show Great Love And Respect For Women Too. Songs That Talk About Strong, Upstanding Women And Their Pain. I Have Women Working On My Music. They Understand Where I'm Coming From. So Does My Mama. I Always Play My Music For Her Before It Comes Out. Why Do You Think I Wrote "dear Mama"? I Wrote It For My Mama Because I Love Her And I Felt I Owed Her Something Deep.

The Only Thing America Respects Is Power And Power Concedes Nothing. After The La Riots, They Tried To Calm Us Down And Nothing Changed Since.

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.

Now The Baby's In The Trash Heap Balling.

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.

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 Set Goals, Take Control, Drink Out My Own Bottle, I Make Mistakes But Learn From Every One, And When It's Said And Done, I Bet This Brother Be A Better One, If I Upset You Don't Stress, Never Forget, That God Isn't Finished With Me Yet

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

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.

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.

In A Position To Make A Difference, Politicians And Hypocrites They Don't Wanna Listen.

Making A Difference

I Just Don't Know How To Deal With So Many People Giving Me That Much Affection. I Never Had That In My Life.

Some Say They Expect Illuminati Take My Body To Sleep.

Burnin' Churches, Fearin' God, Who Can Be So Cruel, We All Ignorant To Aids, Till It Happens To You.

Evil's Lurking, I Can See Him Smirking.

Stay In The Game Until The End Of Time.

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.

The People Made Me From The Littlest Crack Head To The Biggest Baller So If I Am Bad Its Because Of The Bay And If I Am Good Its Because Of The Bay

Thug Life To Me Is Dead.

Time To Heal Our Women, Be Real To Our Women. And If We Don't, Then We'll Have A Race Of Babies, That Hate The Ladies That Make The Babies.

If You Can Make It Through The Night, There's A Brighter Day.

So Much Pressure In This Life Of Mine, I Cry At Times, I Once Contemplated Suicide And Woulda Tried, But When I Held That Nine, All I Could See Was My Mama's Eyes, No One Knows My Struggle, They Only See The Trouble, Not Knowing It's Hard To Carry On When No One Loves You.

Many Dreams Is What We Had And Plenty Wishes.

I Have No Patience For Anybody Who Doubts Me, None At All.

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.

Break The Chains In Our Brains That Make Us Fear.

Look At Those Words, 'role' And 'model.' Both Of Those Are Fake Words, To Play A Role And To Model, That's Fake. I'm Real. Being Real, I Drink, I Hang Out, I Party

With All My Fans I Got A Family Again.

For Quiet Times Disappear Listen To The Ocean

Oh Lord, Help Me Change My Ways, Show A Litlle Mercy On Judgement Day, It Aint Me I Was Raised This Way, Never Let Em' Play Me For A Busta, Makin' Hell For A Huslter.

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

Dear Mama, Yo Baby Boys Doing Fine Tell The Homies I'm In Heaven And They Aint Got Hoods.

I Will Die Before My Time. Because I Feel The Shadow's Depth. So Much I Wanted To Accomplish. Before I Reached My Death

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

In My Brain All I Think About Is Fame.

Can’t Sleep ‘cause All The Dirt Make My Heart Hurt

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

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

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

Let The Lord Judge The Criminals.

Perspective. You Start Looking At Things Differently, Like Everything's Not So Important. You Don't Take Things So Personally. Everyone Changes, Becomes Better People. We All Should Get That Chance.

There Ain't No Place Like Paradise.

No Longer Living In Fear, My Pistol Close In Hand, Convinced This Is My Year.

We Probably In Hell Already, Our Dumb Asses Not Knowing.

I Will Never Understand This Society! First They Try To Murder Me Then They Lie To Me!

I'm A Reflection Of The Community.

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.

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

Life In The Pen Ain't For Me 'cos I'd Rather Die.

When The Charge First Came Up, I Hated Black Women. Then, Going To Trial, I Started Seeing The Black Women That Was Helping Me. It's Mostly Black Female Guards. They Treat Me With Human Respect.

Mama Raised A Hellraiser Why Cry, That's Just Life In The Ghetto, Do Or Die.

Driving By My Ambitions, Desire Higher Positions, To See Eternally And My Mission, To Be More Than Just A Rap Musician.

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?

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

If You're A Black Man, They Really Call You Out And Have You Deal With Them.

I Was Raised In The City, Shitty Ever Since I Was An Itty Bitty Kitty Drinkin' Liquor Out My Momma's Titty And Smokin' Weed Was An Everyday Thang In My Household, And Drinking Liquor Til' You Out Cold

All The Hennessy And Weed Can't Hide, The Pain I Feel Inside, Its Like I'm Living Just To Die.

Suge Is The Boss Of Death Row, The Don, You Understand? But Im The Underboss, The Capo. That's My Job To What's Best For Death Row

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

I Am Not A Perfectionist, But Still I Seek Perfection. I Am Not A Great Romantic, But Yet I Yearn 4 Affection

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

Watch Me, Diamonds Shining Looking Like I Robbed Liberace.

The American Dream Wasn't Meant For Me, Cause Lady Liberty's A Hypocrite She Lied To Me, Promised Me Freedom,education, And Equality Never Gave Me Nothing But Slavery But Now Look At How Dangerous You Made Me Callin Me A Mad Man Because Im Strong And Bold.

I Heard A Rumor I Died, Murdered In Cold Blood Dramatized, Pictures Of Me In My Final State, You Know Mama Cried, But That Was Fiction, Some Coward Got The Story Twisted, Like I No Longer Existed, Mysteriously Missin', I'm Known Worldwide Baby, I Ain't Hard To Find.

How Could You Do Me Like That I Took Ya Family In Put Some Cash In Ya Pocket Made You A Man Again

Never Surrender, It's All About The Faith You Got: Don't Ever Stop, Just Push It 'till You Hit The Top And If You Drop, At Least You Know You Gave Your All To Be True To You, That Way You Can Never Fall

My Biggest Fear Of Death Is To Come Back Reincarnated

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

Picture Me Inside The Misery Of Poverty, No Man Alive Has Ever Witnessed Struggles Ive Survived, Praying Hard For Better Days Promised To Hold On Me And My Dogs Aint Have A Choice But To Hold On.

Love Is The People's Power

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

Can You Picture My Prophecy?

Tomorrow Comes After The Dark

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

June 16, 1971, Mama Gave Birth To A Hell Rasing Heavenly Son.

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.

What Doesn't Kill Me Just Makes Me Stronger

Study Your Lessons, Don't Settle For Less.

When You Were Born The World Was Smiling, And You Cry, Because Living A Life So That You Are Dying Smiled, Cried And The World.

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

Dre Was One Of My Heros In The Music Industry. If He's Not Down For His Homeboys, I Don't Wanna Be A Part Of Him Or Around Him.

It’s Just Me Against The World.

Me Against The World

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.

The Reason Why I Could Get Into Acting Was Because It Takes Nothing To Get Out Of Who I Am And Go Into Somebody Else.

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.

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

It's Kinda Hard To Be Optimistic, When Your Homies Lying Dead On The Pavement Twisted.

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

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.

Don't Live To Fight, Fight To Live.

I Wanna Piss On His Head, I Want His Family Dead.

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

What I Learned In Jail Is That I Can't Change. I Can't Live A Different Lifestyle - This Is It. This Is The Life That They Gave And This Is The Life That I Made.

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

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

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

If God Wanted Me To Be Quiet He Would’ve Never Showed Me What He Does.

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.

I'll Probably Be Punished For Hard Living.

Cry Later, But For Now, Let's Enjoy The Laughter.

Fear No Man But Only God

I Love William Shakespeare. He Wrote Some Of The Rawest Stories. I Mean Look At Romeo And Juliet. That's Some Serious Ghetto Expletive. You Got This Guy Romeo From The Bloods Who Falls For Juliet, A Female From The Crips, And Everybody In Both Gangs Are Against Them. So They Have To Sneak Out And They End Up Dead For Nothing. Real Tragic Stuff.

I Worked Hard All My Life As Far As This Music Business. I Dreamed Of The Day When I Could Go To New York And Feel Comfortable And They Could Come Out Here And Be Comfortable.

How Many Niggas Want To Be Involved, See I Was Only Talking Biggie, But I'll Kill All Of Y'all.

Imperfection Is Inherited, Therefore We All Sin, But Fighting The War Of Sin Is The Greatest War Of All Because We All Die In The End No Matter How Hard We Fight.

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...

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?

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

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

Nobody Should Be Hitting Lotto For 36 Million Dollars When We Got People Starving In The Streets. That Is Not Idealistic, That's Just Real. That Is Just Stupid. There's No Way Michael Jackson, Or Whoever Should Have Thousands, Millions, Billions Of Dollars And We Got People Broke With Two-three Jobs And Still Can't Pay Bills On Time. There's No Way! No Way These People Should Have Planes When People Don't Have Houses, Apartments, Shacks, Drawers, Pants!!!

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.

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.

The Trick Is To Never Lose Hope!

Never Lose Hope

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Photographers Are Worth A Million.

Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Nothing But Pain, Stuck In This Game, Searching For Fortune And Fame.

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?

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

They Wanna Bury Me Im Worried. Im Loosin My Mind Look Down The Barrel Of My Nine And My Visions Blurry. Fallen To Pieces Am I Guilty? I Pray To The Lord But His Laws Be Unfortunate Because Im Guilty.

I Have No Fear, I Have Only Ambition, And I Want Mine, And I Will Do Anything To Protect And Feed My Family.

All I'm Trying To Do Is Survive And Make Good Out Of The Dirty, Nasty, Unbelievable Lifestyle That They Gave Me.

There's A Machine That I Have Nothing To Do With. It's Called The "tupac Machine."

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.

You Know It's Funny, When It Rains It Pours They Got Money For Wars, But Can't Feed The Poor.

Niggaz Need Guns, Too.

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

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 People Who Steal And Hurt Others. I'm Just A Brother Who Fights Back. I'm Not Some Violent Closet Psycho. I've Got A Job. I'm An Artist.

Life Give To You What You Gave To It. So Give Your Best.

How Many Caskets Can We Witness Before We See It's Hard To Live This Life Without God, So We Must Ask Forgiveness.

Asking For Forgiveness

Tupac The Son Of The Black Panther, And Tupac The Rider. Those Are The Two People Inside Of Me. I Was Raised Off Those Ideals.

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

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

Faith My Homegirl. I Just Wanna Send A Shout Out To Faith. Hey Girl.

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.

Don't Support The Phonies, Support The Real

For Every Single Dark Night There Is A Brighter Day.

That Which Does Not Kill Me Can Only Make Me Stronger.

Revenge Is Like The Sweetest Joy Next To Gettin' Pussy.

We Probaly In Hell Already, Our Dumb Asses Not Knowin, Everybody Kissin Ass To Go To Heaven Aint Goin.

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.

I'm Gonna Tie You Up, Blind Fold You, And We Gonna Play Which Hole Feel The Best.

Things Change That's The Way It Is.

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

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.

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.

One Day I'm Gonna Bust, Blow Up On This Society, Why Did You Lie To Me, I Couldn't Find A Trace Of Humanity.

We Are Being Wiped Off The Face Of This Earth At An Extremely Alarming Rate And Even More Alarming Is The Fact That We Are Not Fighting Back

In My Mind I'm A Blind Man Doin' Time.

Perhaps I Was Blind To The Facts, Stabbed In The Back I Couldn't Trust My Own Homies Just A Bunch Of Dirty Rats

The Only Time I Have Problems Is When I Sleep.

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

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

Behind Every Sweet Smile, There Is A Bitter Sadness That No One Can Ever See And Feel.

No Matter How Hard It Gets, Keep Your Chest Out, Keep Your Head Up And Handle It.

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?'

I Thought I Had Friends But In The End N*iggaz Dies Lonely.

Fear Is Stronger Than Love, Remember That. Fear Is Stronger Than Love, All That Love I Gave Didn't Mean Nothing When It Came To Fear.

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