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Name: Tupac Shakur Band: 2Pac Position Vocals Date Of Birth June 16, 1971 Place Of Birth ? Sex Male Official Site: Tupac Fan Site: Tupac Fans Fan Site: All Eyes On ME Fan Site: Tupac Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"you dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me"


-"you dont now me, you just ment me, you wont let me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit why ya sweet me"


-"The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all Black shit. I'm on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there's some niggaz out there the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus Christ every brother ain't a brother. They will do you. So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean it's evil"


-"To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything"


-"There ain't nothin' like a Black woman"


-"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome"


-"I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with...Every time I had to go to a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don't fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White people's world, that's criminal...Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at any moment"


-"We are in the midst of a very dangerous, non-productive, self-destructive civil war. And it's not just rap shit. It's ideals. And this rap shit is just bringin' it to a head. The East Coast believe one thing, and the West Coast believer one thing. The East Coast got one way of life, the West Coast got another wayof life, it always co-existed. We're coming to the turn of the century where we gotta mash together. But we can only do it one way, one style. And that's what we're trying to figure out now, and I think the world is watching that"


-"To me, it really troubling because I took ouver at that's successful- Marky Mark, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, New Kids On The Block selling twenty-two million copies, and I want that so badly, but I can't do that. I would be wrong to do that, knowing what I know and having the brain that I have, for me to even go and write some simple shit would be wrong even though I would get paid and I would get more people's money. I would rather leave something so that when people pick up 2pacalypse Now or any of my other albums in 1999, they'll go, Damn! Brothers had it hard back in the day, but brother were working it out"


-"Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on"


-"I'm gonna change the rules in the rap game. You know, how, like politics, the Republicans are in now; well, I represent that style; I'm the new nigga, I'ma shake up the whole Congress, by puttin' out a double-album-that nobody ever did-I had the most expensive album on the Charts...and I outsold everyone of them muthafuckas. And I did it in two months"


-"I'm not the king. I'm not the teacher or nothing like that, but I feel like I don't have no peers. l've been out les than a year, convicted of allegations that usually end niggas careers. Shot five times in the nuts and the head. I came out and in less than a fuckin' year and outsold Biggie almost three times. I sold more records than his whole fuckin' label"


-"I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case, 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"


-"The history of Hip Hop is built on battles. But it used to be that when heads had a problem, they could pull a mike and settle it, using hollow-point rhymes to rub competitors off the map--Well things done changed"


-"I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward"


-"Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me"


-"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"


-"I never thought I was the best rapper the best nothing'. I think I'm the realist nigga out there"


-"People might be, like, "This niggas conceited," but fuck it. I feel like I shine. And I don't give a fuck how many white people, the Media, black people, playa haters, police, whoever, try to darken my shine, Im'a always shine through"


-"All I can say is I always try to be a real nigga in my heart. Sometimes its good, sometimes it's bad; but its still us. Its never to hurt anybody"


-"I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me"


-"Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war"


-"If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that"


-"Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost"


-"I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out"


-"America, America, America, I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault."


-"One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity."


          -Tupac Shakur, 2pac, Rapper, June 16, 1971