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Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur (June 16, 1971 - September 13, 1996) was an influential, best-selling rap artist. Some of his aliases include 2Pac, Pac, and Makaveli. The names 'Tupac Amaru' and 'Shakur' mean Shining Serpent in Inca and Thankful to God in Arabic, respectively.
Sourced
- Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
- Vibe magazine interview (February 1996)
- All good niggas, all the niggas who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.
- Details magazine interview (Spring 1996)
- 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.
- Vibe magazine (September 1996)
- This new Makaveli album I got comin' out, I'm takin' on niggas. It's like, my dopest album ever.
- Vibe magazine (September 1996)
- I am the future of black America.
- Vibe magazine (September 1996)
- Fuck it, I feel like I shine.
- Vibe magazine (September 1996)
- Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing; Niggas is the one with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.
Poetry
- Take ones adversity
- Learn from their misfortune
- Learn from their pain
- Believe in something
- Believe in yourself
- Turn adversity into ambition
- Now blossom into wealth
- Ambition over Adversity
- ...
- When I was alone, and had nothing
- I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain
- No one came, except God
- When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep
- No one could help me.. except God
- When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers
- No one heard me, except God
- So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to?
- I look for no other name, except God
- God
Lyrics
- That which does not kill me can only make me stronger (aside- This is a reference to Nietzsche)
- and I don't see why everybody feel as though
- that they gotta tell me how to live my life
- Let me live baby, let me live
- Only God Can Judge Me (Interlude), All Eyez On Me
- ...
- My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated
- Only God Can Judge Me (Outro), All Eyez On Me
- ...
- I see no changes all I see is racist faces
- misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
- We under I wonder what it takes to make this
- one better place, let's erase the wasted
- Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
- 'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
- and only time we chill is when we kill each other
- it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
- Changes, 2Pac Greatest Hits
- ...
- We gotta make a change...
- It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
- Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
- and let's change the way we treat each other.
- You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
- what we gotta do, to survive.
- Changes (Interlude), 2Pac Greatest Hits
- ...
- There's gonna' be some stuff that your gonna' see
- That's gonna' make it hard to smile in the future
- But whatever you see, through all the rain and pain
- You gotta keep a sense of humor
- Gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit
- Remember that
- Just keep ya head up
- Smile for Me Now, Death Row Greatest Hits
Attributed
- Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over, but this month I'm takin' every moving target out. - (Two weeks before his death)
- Everybody that was involved knows what happened [...] and everything is there. [...] Just read everything over, and read my reply, read their reply, read what people say, watch people, cuz you can fake for a long time but one day you gonna show yourself to be a phony [...] think back, think of all the people that you've seen me put on stage, think of all the people I've put on, that I got into this game, that I show how to do this, and think about what they're saying now. That's not keeping it real.** In prison, 1995, on who shot him up.
- I am crazy, but you know what else: I don't give a fuck.
- I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.
- I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.
- I swear, if they hadn't tried to ruin me, I never would have ended up being a rapper. I probably would have been a preacher or something.
- I think the old should go through school again. I think that rich people should live like poor people, and poor people should live like rich people, and change every week.
- I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
- I'm one-hundred 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.
- If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.
- If it don't make dollars it don't make cents.
- In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.
- June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.
- Killing isn't fair but somebody's got to do it
- My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.
- My Mama used to tell me if you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
- Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
- The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
- 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.
- They got money for wars but they can't feed the poor.
- We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?
- 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.
- What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.
- When I speak, I want my words to mean something. I want my words to make people shiver. ~ 1994 Interview
Discography
- 2Pacalypse Now (1991)
- Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z (1993)
- Thug Life: Thug Life Vol. 1 (1994)
- Me Against the World (1995)
- All Eyez on Me (1996)
- Makaveli: The Don Killuminati: 7 Day Theory (1996)
- R U Still Down? (1997)
- 2Pac's Greatest Hits (1998)
- Still I Rise (1999)
- The Rose that Grew from Concrete (2000)
- Until the End of Time (2001)
- Better Dayz (2002)
- Tupac Resurrection (2003)
- Nu-Mixx Klazzics (2003)
- 2Pac Live (2004)
- Loyal to the Game (2004)
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