"When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble."
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"It don't stop 'til the casket drop."
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"Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed."
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"Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long."
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"Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs."
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"Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots"
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"That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me."
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"No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year."
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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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"What I want to know, though, is why all of a sudden is everybody acting like gangs are some new phenomenon in this country? Almost everyone in America is affiliated with some kind of gang. We got the FBI, the ATF, the police departments, the religious groups, the Democrats and the Republicans. Everybody's got their own little clique and they're all out there gangbanging in their own little way."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully."
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"You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town."
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"Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went."
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"There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine.""
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"I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight."
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"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."
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"It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world."
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"I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why."
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