We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.

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

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

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

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

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.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

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

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.

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

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

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.

Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.

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.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

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

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

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.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.

Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror I hate the man in the mirror Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer

Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

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.

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

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

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.

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.

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

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.

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

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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