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Tupac Quotes Page 2
 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'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.
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
my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief
that I have lived for. I am societies child, this is how they made me, and now im sayin what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America. All
I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty,
unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
All
the stuff I say in my rhymes I say because of how I grew up. So instead
of going to a pyschiatrist, I got a kids' group that deals with the
problems a younger generation is going through.
America
wants its respect.
Biggie
came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.
Death
Row East is gonna be a personification of what we did on the West Side.
We gonna prove once that all these people talking 'bout a East Coast
West Coast war.
Don't
change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
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.
Even
if they give me the maximum sentence, that's still my job.
Even
though I'm innocent of the charge they gave me, I'm not innocent in
terms of the way I was acting. I had a job to do and I never showed up.
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.
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.
From
now on, it's not going to be a strictly black thing with me. I
apologized to Quincy Jones for the stuff I said about him and his wives.
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.
I
ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop
should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds,
different beats.
I
appreciate them stickin' up for me when everyone was kickin me when I
was down. That's love and I'll never trade that.
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
can make my way in this business besides rapping.
I
can only be committed to my work or my wife. I didn't want to hurt her;
she's a good person.
I
didn't know I was shot in the head yet. I didn't feel nothing. Puffy was
standing back. They shot me in my head five times.
I
do not suggest that children buy this album. There's a lot of cursing.
There's a lot of raw game that needs to be discussed in a family moment
before you let them listen.
I
don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
I
don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
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.
I
feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated
his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions. I
feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are
secrets everybody's gonna find out about.
I
have a group and a program called the Underground Railroad. The concept
behind this is the same concept behind Harriet Tubman, to get my
brothers who might be into drug dealing or whatever-to get them back by
turning them onto music.
I
just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much
affection. I never had that in my life.
I
just put out a hardcore double album. Next I'm gonna put out an
introspective album.
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.
I
know my life's not in danger. They shouldn't feel like they gotta worry
about me.
I
never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes
that weren't honorable.
I
see myself having a job on Death Row, being the A&R person and an
artist that drop an album like Paul McCartney every five years.
I
swear to God, the farthest thing from my mind was sympathy. All I could
think of was, Stand up and fight for your life like you fight for your
life in this hospital.
I
think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if
it's authority that I respect.
I
used to believe I could never be touched. Now I'm more careful because I
have been shot. I know what that feels like. My choices have already
been made.
I
used to dress in baggies and sneakers. They took me shopping; that's
when I bought my Rolex and all my jewels. They made me mature. They
introduced me to all these gangsters in Brooklyn.
I
went in cold turkey, read, God was with me... The movie is about kids
and their coming of age. It's not a hip hop movie. My character is
Roland Bishop, a psychotic, very violent individual.
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.
I
would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up?
By people who you trusted? That's bad.
I
wouldn't sit down and have a conversation with Puffy and Biggie because
that's like Scarface sitting down with the dude he's hoping to rule.
They are not on my level.
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
23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm
everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
I'm
a convict and my homeboy just got off a murder case. So that tells you
it's pure talent. No hype.
I'm
a reflection of the community.
I'm
a smart general and I'm not gonna attack at no blind soldier. I'm gonna
attack those who attack me.
I'm
calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what
you do in a struggle for power.
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'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.
If
anybody finds Janet, tell her I'm looking for her. She ain't my enemy. I
want her to know that. She met me at a time in my life when I was real
immature.
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.
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.
If
you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
If
you make me do it, then I don't wanna do it, I don't care how many
albums you brought.
If
you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with
them.
In
Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was
straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.
In
spite of the gangs and all that we still came up with this culture. We
never got what we deserved.
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.
It
seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back
down.
It's
a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can
judge us.
It's
all about addressing the problems that we face in everyday
society-police brutality, poverty, unemployment, insufficient education,
disunity and violence, black-on-black crime, teenage pregnancy, crack
addiction.
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.
It's
the game of life. Do I win or do I lose?. One day they're gonna shut the
game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many
times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
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.
Nobody
ever came to save me. They just watch what happen to you.
Other
people need to just know that life's a bitch!
People
on the East coast are real proud and real cultural and real strong like
we are on the west coast.
Puffy
wrote me while I was in jail. I wrote him back that I don't got no
problems with him. I don't want it to be fighting, I just wanna make my
money.
Reality
is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Recognize
us. By sales and by representing.
Snoop
went on trial for murder. Somebody said Dre was in the car.
Sometimes
when I'm drunk I think to myself, Should I just stop trying and give up?
They're waiting for me to give up. So this is just a fun little game
that I cry at sometime.
The
addict in Tupac is dead. The excuse maker in Tupac is dead. The vengeful
Tupac is dead. God let me live for me to do something extremely
extraordinary.
The
Bay is the type of place where if you ain't there, they're gonna talk
about you.
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. I
didn't know myself.
The
only time I have problems is when I sleep.
There's
nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
They
thought they were just gonna make millions and there wasn't gonna be no
problems? You wanna be in the rap game, hustle for it just like I had to
do.
This
ain't no game. If this was chess, we'd be yelling checkmate three years
ago.
Thug
Life to me is dead.
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.
We
already run these streets out here. We got the ways to make them use
their talents to the maximum affect. And thats what it's about.
We
are together as black men-they over there, we over here. If we really
gonna live in peace, we all can't be in the same room. Yellow M&M's
don't move with green M&M's.
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.
When
I dis y'all, it's not because I'm ungrateful, it's because I'm nervous.
I'm paranoid, I just got out of jail. I've been shot, cheated, lied and
framed.
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.
When
you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be
in character.
Whether
I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me.
They're going to come 100 percent.
With
all my fans I got a family again.
You
can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty.
You
just can't be calling us fakers and pretenders and non-creative and say
we can't freestyle.
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.
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