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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.

Play the game, never let the game play you.

Rollin wit a posse full of paranoid drugdealaz!

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.

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.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

fear no man but only God

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

The trick is to never lose hope!

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

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?

How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

You either ride with us, or collide with us.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

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.

Support me ... If you don't understand me don't write about me

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

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.

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.

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.

Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

I'm a reflection of the community.

I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close nigga watch your homies

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.

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

This so called 'Home of the Brave'
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up

Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.

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.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose 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.

You're right.I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't give a fuck.

Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us.

Love IS the People's Power

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

Please wake me when I'm free
I cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
Than 2 live without expression of mind

A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.

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.

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.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

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.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

I'm a thug. And my thug comes from ... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

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.

Thug Life to me is dead.

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.

My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.

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.

And I ... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.

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.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case ...

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.