Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper, record producer and actor. As of 2007, Shakur has sold over 75 million records worldwide. His double disc albums All Eyez on Me and his Greatest Hits are among the best selling albums in the United States. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone which ranked him 86th on its...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth16 June 1971
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. 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 thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.
Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party
Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.
We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.
We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.
That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.
Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.
How can I be a man if there is no role model?
I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.
Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.
Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!
If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.
Things change that's the way it is.
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.