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Tupac: Resurrection (Script) LyricsI got shot.





I always felt like I'd be shot.






Somebody was trying

to do me some harm






because a lot of people don't like me.

But I didn't think it was gonna happen

at that particular moment.






I'm surprised, but I'm happy.






I believe that, you know,

this is all in God's hands.

And I'm very appreciative to God

for everything I've gotten to do.






But also, about death, we look at

death from the selfish side, like:






"That guy died. Oh, it's so sad."

Why is it sad?

He's away from all of this

bad stuff that's here on Earth.






I mean, at the worst, he's just

somewhere quiet, no nothing.






At best, he's an angel... or he's

a spirit somewhere.






What is so bad about that?






Throughout my life, I just wanted

to be like an angel for God,








do something

where I could be of some help.






And I can do that.

I mean, I'm an artist.






It's not like I have to tell the truth.

I have to tell a story






and reach you and get

some kind of feeling from you.






And then try to get the moral across.






So this is my story.






A story about ambition,

violence, redemption and love.






In my life, I was different things

for different people.






What's up, nigga?








Don't fuck around with real Gs

Quick to snatch your ugly ass






- Off the streets

- So fuck peace






I let them niggas know

It's on for life






So let the West Side ride tonight






Bad Boy murdered on wax and killed






- Fuck with me you'll get your

- Caps peeled






Yeah, my niggas say...






Some people say

I was a thug and a gangsta.








Other people remember me

as a poet and a born leader.






But I'm saying to you

measure a man by his actions fully,






through his whole life,

from the beginning to the end.






Everybody's past

is what made their future.






It's, like, about destiny.






Speak, drums

Tell the real story






My mother was a Black Panther,






and she was really involved

in the movement.






Power! Power!








Power to the people!

Power to the people!






You know, just black people bettering

themselves and things like that.






She had a high position in the Panther

Party, which was unheard of,






because there was sexism,

even in the Panthers.






All of my roots

to the struggle are real deep.






I was named after this Inca chief

from South America






whose name was Tupac Amaru.

And I think the tribal breakdown






means, like, intelligent warrior,

something like that. He's a deep dude.








If I go to South America,

they're gonna love me.






My stepfather at the time,

Mutulu Shakur,






he was also, like,

a well-known revolutionary.






And then my godfather,

Geronimo Pratt,






had a top official rank position

with the Panthers on the West Coast.






You can jail a revolutionary,

but you can't jail a revolution.






I think that my mother,

like Fred Hampton, Mark Clark,






Harriet Tubman, they felt

like they were laying tracks






for a generation to come.








Come in, little brothers, sisters. Y'all

sit down and get something to eat.






There was always

white people around helping out.






But still, you know, there's racism.






So when the Panthers hit,

the government panicked.






And they felt like the Panthers were

detrimental to American society.






Remember, this country had

a man named J. Edgar Hoover,






whose job it was to destroy the

credibility of any black man coming up.






- That's what they did to the Panthers.

- Power to the people.








The government raided every

Panther's house, especially the ones






who they felt like could do the

most damage as an orator.






So they just burst in and put a gun

to my mother's head and said:






"Don't move. You're under arrest."






They treated her

like less than human.






My mother was pregnant

with me while she was in prison.






She was her own attorney,

never been to law school.






She was facing 300

and something odd years.






One black woman,

pregnant, beat the case.








That just goes to show you

the strength of a black woman






and the strength of the oppressed.






And a month after she got out

of prison, she gave birth to me.






So I was cultivated in prison.

My embryo was in prison.






When I was a little baby, I remember

that one moment of calm peace,






and three minutes after that,

it was on.






I rebelled against my mother

because she was in the movement






and we never spent time together. She

was speaking and going to colleges.








I used to feel like she cared more

about the people than her people.






And then after that was over,

it was more time spent with me,






and we were like, "You're my mother."

She was like, "You're my son."






Then she was really close

with me and really strict, almost.






My mother is totally brilliant,

totally understanding and caring.






And she's human. I mean, she'll be

wrong a lot, but we can talk about it.






She taught me how

to be community-oriented,






and to analyze society.






Me and my sister grew up good, and

we have good minds and everything.








But we just didn't have money.






Poverty is...






It's no joke. If there was no money

and everything depended






on your moral standards

and the way you treated people,






we'd be millionaires. We'd be rich.






But, since it's not like that,

then we're stone-broke.






I can't always have what I want

or things that I think I need.






Poverty, if I hated anything,

it would be that.








You and me were born

and raised in Harlem.






And every time you put it down,

you're not only putting us down,






but Mama and Papa.






My real father was a Black Panther,






but when I was growing up, I never

knew who my father was for sure.






My stepfather was a gangster,

a straight-up street hustler.






My mom had a kid,

he didn't even care.






He's like, "That's my son,"

took care of me, gave me money.






He was a criminal too,

out doing his thing.








So he only came,

brought me money and then left.






It's OK to go to Harlem and celebrate

your birthday with your friends,






but I don't think we would really fit in.






I hate saying this because whites

love hearing blacks talk about this.






I know for a fact that,

had I had a father,






I'd have had some discipline,

I'd have had more confidence.






Your mother cannot calm you down

the way a man can.






Your mother can't reassure you

the way a man can.








My mother couldn't show me

where my manhood was.






You need a man to teach you

how to be a man.






When I was young,

I was quiet, withdrawn.






I read a lot. I wrote poetry.

I kept a diary.






I watched TV all the time.

I stayed in front of the television.






And I could see all these people

out there in this pretend world.






And I knew I could be

part of it if I pretended too.






The way Arnold looked

on Diff'rent Strokes,






I used to like the lifestyle,

the way he used to live.








So early on,

I just watched and emulated.






I thought if I can be an actor

and act like those characters,






I could have some of their joy.






Oh, thank you, Mr. D!






If I could act like I had a big family,

I wouldn't feel as lonely.






My first acting job

was at the Apollo Theater






when Jesse Jackson

was running for president in 1984.






It was a fundraiser,

and I was a little kid.








Travis, from Raisin in the Sun.

When the curtain went up,






I just caught that bug

that everybody talks about.






I was like, "Whoa, this is it."






It was better than sex and anything,

money, everything. It was like, "Whoa,






"I want this."






We moved out of New York

because my mother lost her job.






We were, like, stranded.






So we moved to Baltimore...






...which was total ignorance town

to me.








I mean, Baltimore has the highest rate

of blacks killing blacks in the country.






Then I auditioned for the

Baltimore School of Performing Arts.






Then I started

to have good-luck times.






Parents are the same

No matter time nor place






They don't understand that us kids

Are gonna make some mistakes






So to you, all the kids all across

The land, there's no need to argue






Parents just don't understand






I spent three years in Baltimore,

high-school years. I made friends,








like Jon Cole and Jada Pinkett.






You should've seen

This girl's bodily dimensions






I honked my horn to get her attention

She said, "Was that for me?"






I said, "Yeah. " She said, "Why?"






I said, "Come on and take a ride

With a hell of a guy"






I loved my classes.

We were exposed to everything.






You know, theater, ballet...






...listening to different types of music,






songs that became

a soundtrack to my life.








But in my homeboys' high school,

it's not like that.






They don't have trips

to go see this Broadway play,






they don't read things we read.

They didn't know when I was like:






"Yo, Shakespeare's dope." They don't

have the same experiences we had.






Then I started thinking

the art school I went to






was mostly for white kids

and rich minorities.






I started going, "I would have

been totally different






"had I not been exposed to this."








I was living in the ghetto.

We didn't have lights and electricity.






- We was about to get evicted.

- We want home!






We want heat! We want lights!






We want something

to do for our children!






I thought, "We're not being taught

to deal with the world as it is."






The rich should live

like the poor,






the poor should live like the rich.

They should change every week.






The president stirred up

a hornets' nest earlier this week






when he suggested

the problems of the hungry








came about because they were

uninformed about where to go for help.






How could Reagan live in a White

House, which has a lot of rooms,






and there be homelessness?

And he's talking about helping.






I don't believe that there is anyone






that is going hungry in America

simply by reason






of denial or lack of ability

to feed them.






It is by people not knowing

where or how to get this help.






Why can't he take people off the street

and put them in his White House?








Then he'll have people from the streets

to help him with his ideas.






Not helpless! Homeless!

Not helpless!






They haven't been homeless forever.

They've done things in society.






The White House would be tainted

because he doesn't want to get dirty.






Growing up in America, I loved my

childhood, but I hated growing up poor.






We live in hell. We live in the gutter.

We live in a war zone.






We've got us stacked

up 80-deep in one building.






When you get out your house,

you're strapped to protect yourself.






The same crime element

that white people are scared of








black people are scared of.






While they waiting for legislation

to pass, we next door to the killer.






All them killers they let out,

they're in that building.






Just because we black,

we get along with the killers?






What is that?

We need protection too.






Then I came to California

to escape that violence.






Come to Marin City,

and there's even more poverty.






I was starting to see the one

thing we have in common








as black people,

is we share that poverty.






I made it to where I had knowledge

this wasn't just me.






It was a bigger picture.

It was my people getting dogged.






It wasn't just my family.

It was all of us.






Moving to Baltimore and Oakland

and Marin and New York,






and the poverty helped me

to relate to everybody's struggle.






Don't get the wrong idea.

I feel like I'm being gloomy.






I don't mean just to be like,

"Damn it, it's bad out there."






I still try to be positive.








I know that good things

are gonna come for me.






- Where you go to school?

- Are you rolling?






- Yeah, rolling.

- Go ahead, that's OK.






You dressed right for it.






He said he's been a little chilly,

so this is good for him.






- Somebody will enjoy the heat in here.

- Anytime.






OK. My name is Tupac Shakur,

and I attend Tamalpais High School.






And I'm 17 years old.








Oh, my God,

I got the phattest d j vu.






I chased girls and bought the car

and loud music,






but I like to think of myself

as really being socially aware.






Kept my history a mystery

But now I see






The American dream

Wasn't meant for me






'Cause Lady Liberty's a hypocrite

She lied to me






Promised me freedom, education

Equality






I think there should be

a class on drugs.






There should be a class on sex

education, a real sex-education class.








There should be a class

on police brutality.






There should be a class on apartheid.






There should be a class

on why people are hungry.






But there are not.

There are classes on gym.






Physical education.

Let's learn volleyball.






Fathers of this country

Never cared for me






They kept my ancestors

Shackled up in slavery






And Uncle Sam never did

A damn thing for me








Except lie about the facts

In my history






Now I'm sitting here mad

Because I'm unemployed






But the government's glad

Because they enjoy






When my people are down

So they can screw us around






Time to change the government now

No more






How do you think you're

most like your mom?






I'm most like my mom

because I'm arrogant. Totally arrogant.






You should see us when we get

in our attitude moods.






We get in our tiffs and everything,

but it's good.








My mom's my homey,

but we went through our stages,






where first we was mother and son,






then it was like drill sergeant

and cadet.






Then it was like dictator, little country.






Then I moved out,

and I was on my own.






I was broke, nowhere to stay.






I smoked weed.

I hung out with the drug dealers,






pimps and the criminals.








They were the only people

that cared about me.






And I needed a father.

I needed a male influence,






and these were the males.






You could see where I spent time

in the streets when you talk to me.






The words I say don't come

from a mother's or father's mouth.






They come from a pimp's mouth or a

prostitute or a hustler or drug dealer.






To me, these were my role models.






My mom was lost at that particular

moment. She was addicted to crack.






It was hard. It was hard

because she was my hero.








Not long ago in Oakland, California,






I was asked by a group of children

what to do if they were offered drugs.






And I answered, "Just say no."






I was broke. I didn't have enough

credits to graduate, so I dropped out.






I said, "I gotta get paid.

I gotta make a living."






I started selling drugs

for maybe two weeks.






The dude was like, "Give me my drugs

back," because I didn't know how.






The dope dealers used to look out

for me. They would give me money








and be like, "Don't get involved with

this. Get out there, do your dream."






So they was like my sponsors.






My dream was

to make a living rapping.






Just to make music

that was coming from my heart.






When I first started rapping, I needed

the money, and I had to work.






Yeah, sexy baby






Do the Humpty Hump

Do the Humpty Hump






Sexy baby






Do the Humpty Hump

Do the Humpty Hump








Do the Humpty Hump

Do the Humpty Hump






That was me.






For me to get paid, I had to go out in

bikini briefs and hop on top of this doll.






I was homeless.

That's what I had to do.






You have to work from one point

to go to another point.






I admire the work ethic.






Do the Humpty Hump

Do the Humpty Hump






Do the Humpty Hump

Just watch me do the Humpty Hump








Shock was responsible

for my success.






I'm the original two-tone,

big-nosed, skinny rapper.






Shock G.






Leila introduced me to Atron who

was managing Digital Underground.






He was like, "I'll send you to Digital

Underground. They're in the studio.






"Rap for Shock G on the spot.

If he like you, I'll pick you up."






I walked in and rapped.






He was like, "Good. You're in."

Boom, boom. "See you later."






And I left, walked out

of there like, "Dang."








Shock was like, "Come on the road.

Be my roadie. It ain't glamorous.






"You'll be working, meeting people."

I said, "Cool."






Off the road, he said, "I'm gonna pay

you and let you do 'Same Song'."






I did "Same Song".

Ever since, it's been on.






- Tupac, rock this

- I clown around when I hang






Around with the Underground






Girls who used to frown

Say I'm down when I come around






Gas me and when they pass me

They used to diss me








Harass me but now they ask me

If they can kiss me






Get some fame, people change

Wanna live their life high






Same song, can't go wrong

If I play the nice guy






Claiming fame must have changed

Now that we became strong






I remain, still the same

Because it's the same song






I look back with the greatest fondness.

Those were some of the best times.






Watch this one.






I'm gonna fuck you up.

I'm gonna fuck you up.






DJ Mark, "The 45 King"

This is your thing








Check out how we swing

Look at my ding-a-ling






And know that I am the king

A lyrical lunatic






I can rap slow or quick

About fishing or politics






It don't matter because girls

Be on your dick






Atron had been shopping

my demo tape as a solo album.






All of a sudden, Interscope got in touch

with us, and I was told that Ted Field,






this millionaire, multimillionaire,

his daughter had heard my demo,






and she liked it. So he was like,

"That's how I picked you."








And I was like,

"Well, tell your daughter thanks."






You know you gotta love the sound

It's from the rebel






The rebel of the Underground






So I went from being unknown

to now having a platinum record.






2Pacalypse Now is a story of a young

black male, from track one to track 13,






whether it be about teenage

pregnancy, police brutality or poverty.






Also, I tell my own personal problems.






All my songs deal with the pain

that I've felt from my childhood.






That's what makes me do what I do.








My inspiration for writing music is, like,

Don McLean when he did "Vincent",






Lorraine Hansberry

with Raisin in the Sun,






Shakespeare when he does his things.






Like deep stories, you know,

like raw human needs.






I just try to speak about things

that affect me and our community.






Sometimes I'm the watcher

and sometimes the participant.






Sometimes it's just allegories

or fables that have a moral






or theme,

like the ghetto lifestyle.








Brenda's belly's getting bigger

But no one seems to notice






Any change in her figure

She's 12 years old






And she's having a baby

In love with the molester






Who's sexing her crazy






She thinks that he'll be

With her forever






And dreams of a world

Where the two of them are together






Whatever






I seen that, the crack babies,

what we had to go through,






Iosing everything and being poor

and getting beat down.








Being the person I am, I said,

"No, I'm changing this."






I'm trying to think of a good analogy.






It's like you've

got the Vietnam War, right?






And just because the reporters

show us pictures at home






of the Vietnam War, that's what made

the Vietnam War end when it did,






or the shit probably

would have lasted longer.






If no one knew

exactly what was going on,






we just thought they were just dying

valiantly, in some beautiful way.








But because we saw the horror, that's

what made us stop the Vietnam War.






I thought, "That's what I'll

do as an artist, as a rapper.






"I'm gonna show the

graphic details of what I see






"and my community,

and hopefully they'll stop it, quit."






Hello, I'm Tanya Hart,

and welcome to our show.






My guest today has experienced a truly

horrendous life to just be 20 years old.






His family portrait could well be

a poster for America's Most Wanted.






His lyrics are controversial but also

a reality of life as he has seen it.






My ear is to the streets.








I represent 20 years

on this planet Earth






and what I've seen.

This is my report.






It's like my battle cry to America.






They got me trapped






They can't keep the black man down






They got me trapped






No, they can't keep

The black man down






In my album, the number one enemy

is the crooked police officer.








They got me trapped

Can barely walk the city streets






Without a cop har-asking me

Searching me then asking my identity






And the ironic thing

is that it never happened to me.






I was speaking

from the stories of my peers.






Cuffed up, throw me on the concrete

Coppers try to kill me






I mean, I said all of these things,

and then it happened to me.






I had no record, all my life,

no police record, until I made a record.






As my video was debuting on MTV,

I was behind bars,






getting beat up

by the police department.








Good morning.

My name is John Burris,






and I am here today with my client,

Tupac Amaru Shakur,






as well as other members of the

Digital Underground rap group






and some members of the

Digital Underground rap group,






a combination of the various groups.






Basically, I walked across

the street at 17th and Broadway.






The police officers stopped me on

the sidewalk and asked to see my ID.






They sweated me about my name.

The officers said:








"You have to learn your place."






They were charging me

with jaywalking.






I was riffing, arguing about why would

they charge me with a petty crime.






I kept yelling, asking them

to give me my citation and let me go.






Next thing I know, my face

was being buried into the concrete,






and I was laying facedown

in the gutter,






waking up

from being unconscious in cuffs






with blood on my face.

And I'm going to jail for resisting arrest.






That's harassment to me,








that I have to be stopped

in the street and checked,






like we're in South Africa

and asked for my ID.






Officer Boyavich repeatedly

slammed my face into the floor,






while Rogers put the cuffs on.

That's not called for, for jaywalking.






I got a ten-million-dollar lawsuit.

They said they would settle,






but nobody cared.

That wasn't blew up all over the news.






They didn't see me on TV with my eye

and head busted. There are pictures.






- In Oakland?

- Yes. You don't see them.








You see pictures of Tupac

coming out of jail in cuffs.






You don't see pictures of police,

beating my brains in.






You don't see that.

But I see that. That's what I see.






We have seen what they did

to Rodney King.






The whole world has seen

what happened to Rodney King.






Baby, let me show you what

they did to Tupac Shakur.






All that movie, that didn't

mean nothing to OPD.






I was still an N-l-G-G-A,

and they proved it.






And if you can see this,

Mr. Cameraman,








- This is scars I'll go to my grave with.

- I can see it.






These are

"learn to be a nigger" scars.






- You're suing them?

- For ten mil.






What else can I do? See what

happens. You know how that go.






Rodney King's still fighting for his, and

they got it on tape. They got it on tape.






One day I'm gonna bust

Blow up on this society






Why did you lie to me?

I couldn't find a trace of equality






- They settled with me.

- They did?








They gave me 42,000.

I had to pay my lawyer a whole bunch






and bought a car.






I settled

because I was tired of court.






I could have won more,

but I was tired of going to court.






I felt like any dollar from any police

department was good money.






- So you got $42,000 for jaywalking?

- That's a hell of a ticket.






After that case,

people perceived me as a menace.






I've had chief of police, vice president,






the leader of the

Black National Women's Council...








Everybody against me.

Why? Why me?






I have not brought violence to you. I

have not brought Thug Life to America.






I didn't create Thug Life.

I diagnosed it.






What's up?






When I did Juice,

my image got even more scary.






Everything starts from now.






We all go down

unless we stay together.






No one's above the crew.

You know that shit.








You're crazy, man.






When I auditioned for Juice,

that was another good-luck time.






It was my first big part, and I just

took everything and internalized it.






You're right.






I am crazy.






But you know what else?






I don't give a fuck.






Bishop is a psychopath,

but more true to his character,






Bishop is a lonely,

misguided, young kid.








His heroes are James Cagney

and Scarface, those kind of guys.






- Made it, Ma. Top of the world.

- "Made it, Ma. Top of the world."






Know what I'm saying, "shoot them

up, go out in a blaze" type gangsters.






If you've gotta go out,

that's how you go out.






That motherfucker took his destiny

in his own hands.






When I get a part, at first I just try to

find out, how does this character feel?






Like, I make

the person up in my mind.






What he looks like,

try to put a face to him.








Even though it's my face, I'll give

him a walk and give him an attitude.






All you have to do

is relate to your character.






Even away from the set I just let

myself go. I just stopped caring.






I stopped worrying

about what people thought






and started staring people down more.

I really just got into the part.






- Yo, Bishop, man, give me the piece.

- No.






No? What the hell you mean, no?

Give me the gun.






I mean I'm holding onto this

till I say so.






I'm not playing.








Oh, really?






When I'm playing a character,

I'm really that character.






There's nothing fake.






Oh, shit!






I just took everything

and internalized it.






Tell us about your character.

I know you're the villain.






Yo, I play me, straight ruthless villain,

straight killer, straight take no sszzz-s.






You know what I'm saying?

Straight popping partners.








Yo, Tupac will go ahead

and rock this.






Juice helped me

because it gave me that trust.






It let me trust my instincts.






I was confident about what I could do

and what it would look like afterwards.






My next guest has not only become

one of today's most talented new stars,






but he's becoming one of today's

most talked about new stars.






Please welcome Tupac Shakur.






I know what I feel like when

I'm in the zone, when I'm there.






So I was just trying

to get that feeling.








Why are you always so mad?






The exciting performance in the film

is the one of Tupac Shakur.






What do you want from me?






I think you're kind of fly. Shit.






We could start

with your phone number.






This is a 22-year-old young actor,

Tupac Shakur.






He's been in the film Juice,

and I hope to see him again soon.






When I was doing Poetic Justice, I had

to tone myself down a lot to be Lucky.








Lucky is doing the opposite of Bishop.

He's working, responsible,






deliberate about things,

caring for his daughter.






I'm a Gemini, so I got both sides.






See, I get a feeling

there are two Tupacs.






See, I mean, you're this kind,

sensitive, friendly guy,






yet you're involved

in so much controversy.






I'm talking about Tupac Shakur,

who had an incident






with a limo driver

during a taping of In Living Color.






Tupac Shakur is free on bond tonight

after his arrest this weekend in Atlanta.








The 22-year-old singer and actor

was charged with shooting






two off-duty police officers.






The wounds were not serious.






The fight that led to the shooting

in Marin City






reportedly broke out in this field

on Saturday night.






Marin Festival USA was in full swing.






Neighbors say Tupac should not

have let anyone bring a gun here.






Since he got big,

they claim he's changed.








That change has broken some hearts.






Tupac was homeless.

He's from here. We helped him out.






Over my career,

I got arrested, like, 12 times,






some by mistake, some fate

and some unwarranted.






But for whatever reason, I got

to see police more than I wanted to.






In some of my cases,

they dropped the charges.






But because of trouble

in these court cases,






it was hard at that point

for me to be trying to do a movie.






I wasn't professional.

I think I was talented,








but I didn't have the concentration.

And I was immature,






and my ego was out of control.






Harry Connick ain't got nothing on me.

Check it.






I had to get humble again

before I could do this.






More hot water may await Tupac,






based on what he tells

the new issue of The Source






about costarring with Janet Jackson

in her film debut, Poetic Justice.






Among other complaints,








Tupac says Janet's people

asked him to take an AIDS test






- Before shooting a love scene.

- I don't know if it came from Janet,






but suddenly they wanted me to take

an AIDS test for this love scene.






I did not disagree if we were

really gonna make love.






I said, "If we can make love,

I'll take four AIDS tests."






But if I'm doing a love scene with her

just like somebody else did,






and they didn't take a test,

I'm not.






Not only am I not taking a test,

but get out of my trailer.






And they sent, like, four

different people to ask me.








First they sent the producer, then

the black dude, then John, then a girl.






It don't matter who you send,

I'm not taking one.






To me, it was just like an insult.

We had a good experience on the set.






- You look like the type of guy to care.

- What's the type?






I thought I made a friend. I thought,

"I know Janet Jackson for life."






When the movie was over, it was like,

"This number has been changed."






And it was like a movie. I mean, it was

like the day after the movie wrapped.






"I'm gonna call you."

"All right."








"This number's been changed."

I said, "Oh, OK."






Still, when I see her again, I'd run up

and hug her. We was real cool.






I love women. I'm not gonna lie.

I love women with a passion. I do. I do.






Sometimes I just wanna call Prince

and be like, "Can we hang?"






Because I love women

like he love women.






Hold on. I've been talking

to little girls all day.






Seeing somebody my age.

How you doing?






- Fine, how you doing?

- Yourself?






I have ultra respect for women.

I like being around females,








I'm comfortable with them

on every level.






I don't get a predator thing going

when I'm around demure females.






- Don't be shy.

- Y'all making me blush.






You got me blushing.






I'm not uncomfortable

around strong women.






- Sorry. I'm not enough.

- No, I'm looking you up and down.






On TV, they'll go,

"Look how he looking at Tabitha."






Don't do that.








Madonna is real nice. She's a good

person. She helped me a lot.






She was real cool,

like any one of my homeboys.






Jasmine Guy, she helped me.

She's a good supporter.






Jada Pinkett. Jada's my heart,

you know what I mean?






She will be my friend

for my whole life.






Well, I'll scoop you up later in life

if you ain't all shriveled up.






We'll be old together.

Be like Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.






Pic, you always

got a place in my heart.






She can have my one heart,

my liver, my lungs, my kidneys,








my blood, marrow, all of that.






Keep your head up






Child, things are gonna get easier






- Keep your head up

- Child, things will get brighter






My mother taught me to understand

women a lot more than my peers can.






When I was young,

I was surrounded by strong women.






My sister's the bomb.

She's my biggest critic.






She's real smart, funny as all hell.

She's real funny.








My mother was a matriarch.

If you raised by a woman,






you're gonna think like a woman.






Since we all came from a woman,

Got our name from a woman






And our game from a woman






I wonder why we take

From our women






Why we rape our women

Do we hate our women?






I think it's time to kill for our women

Time to heal our women






Be real to our women






But I'm not a woman.

I'm just a normal man.








To me, I'm the hardest man around,

the hardest nigga, because I'm real.






But I'm also very soft.






I'm very sensitive, but that's why I'm

so harsh, because I'm so sensitive.






And that's what I think

has made me successful and famous.






So sensitive.

Don't be so sensitive, Tupac.






- Well, basically...

- Bugaloo.






Bugaloo? Boogaloo?






Marlon Wayans,

I am playing the role of Bugaloo.








- What is Bugaloo?

- Where did that name come from?






Some white guy's sitting there, "What's

a homeboy hip-hop name? Bugaloo!"






"What are they calling each other

these days?"






- Check it out

- I get around






- What you mean you don't know?

- Round and round, round we go






I get around






The Underground just don't stop

For ho's. I get around






When I got famous,

I got famous friends.






Mickey Rourke was a good friend,

good person. He's really funny.








My memory of him is the night

he's arguing with Carr , his wife.






He didn't know what to do.

I was like, "Man, buy her some Cristal.






"Cristal will make someone

forgive you, trust me."






They be like,

"What was we fighting about?"






He's like, "That's a good idea, 'Pac."

I was like, "He gotta be twice my age,






"and I'm giving him ideas."






Ain't no party like a Thug Life party

Because a Thug Life party don't stop






Ain't no party like a Thug Life party

Because a Thug Life party don't stop








Ain't no party like a Thug Life party

Because a Thug Life party don't stop






I always gave Biggie a lot of props.

The Notorious B.I.G.






I thought at the time

he was my friend.






Mike Tyson, we used to kick it.

He's a real cool brother, a big brother.






The only difference in us

is that he's big and I'm small.






But I got the same heart he got.

I want to knock everybody out.






My brother, I'm telling you,

you were good.






- I enjoyed your performance.

- Appreciate it. Thank you very much.






I like that people come to me

and go, "You did a good job."








I was loving that somebody said,

"Tupac, you a great actor."






- I'm telling you, Tupac a real nigga.

- Being famous gave me confidence.






- Is Tupac a sexy motherfucker?

- The crowd gave me confidence.






- Go Tupac, go Tupac, go.

- Let me hear you say:






- "Go Thug Life, go Thug Life, go."

- Go Thug Life, go Thug Life, go.






That's what I wanna hear.

Now, I'm my own man.






I got you now! I got you now!






I put it down. I wanna get

into the head seat. Excel at it.








Do it one more time,

clear as possible.






Can we double it,

see what it sound like?






I'm a natural-born leader.






If not, everybody lose their jobs.

Everybody lose their jobs!






Back to servant.

Playing the drums in the corner.






But nobody could call me a sellout.

I'm not going for that.






I didn't want to change.






I loved that even though I was

with Janet Jackson in big movies,






I'll be up at the dirtiest

house party in the 'hood.








Damn, sweetheart

You got some thighs on you






Now I can't wait to get you home

Get you all alone in my bedroom






People could not believe it.

I used to thrive off that.






Being up in the party, and somebody

go, "Oh, my God, that's Tupac."






Going crazy because I'm

in a dirty party, no security,






lights out, drinking, hella drunk.

Drunk with everybody else.






But that's what kept my sanity,

kept me right, kept me going.






My fans know that I'm real.

My fans go to jail just like me.








They understand me.

Half my fans are white.






The white fans listen

as much as the black fans.






The ones that have approached me

have been genuine fans.






These people will have jobs in

the future and will hire my family.






Get down, man!






But many of my fans don't have ID.

Some have jobs, some don't.






Some are on welfare, you know?

Some are not.






Some are rich and some are poor,






but they all share that hopeless feeling.

I got the underdogs on my side.








Body bags of adversaries

That I had to bury






I'm almost more in awe of the people

in awe of me than they are of me.






Outlaw, outlaw, outlaw






Everybody just be screaming,

and I get uncomfortable.






It's similar to a deer

caught in the headlights.






It's like a battle to find the right words

to say at the right time.






I live Thug Life

And let the money come to me






Because they could never take

The game from a young G








I'm getting money






It was cool. I got to speak to young

black males all over the country






about this new idea

called "Thug Life"...






...which is a new kind

of Black Power.






When I say, "Thug Life",

I mean that shit






because these white folks

see us as thugs.






I don't care if you think you a lawyer,

a man, an African-American.






If you whatever the fuck

you think you are,






we thugs and niggas

to these motherfuckers!








Until we own some shit,

I'll call it like it is.






How you gonna be a man

and we starving?






Walk about five different houses,






there ain't a man in either one

of them motherfuckers.






How we gonna be African-Americans

if we all need a gun?






We thugs and niggas

until we set this shit right.






Trust me when I tell you that shit.






Young black males identify with

Thug Life, but I couldn't handle it.








I could handle it, but not right away.






- Mr. Shakur, can we get a comment?

- Hell, no. Thug Life.






- Pardon me?

- Thug Life. That's my comment.






What's that mean? I don't understand.






- What did happen?

- Thug Life.






Imagine you have 14,000 people

ready to do whatever you want.






You have, all over the country, people

waiting to hear what you wanna do.






I got people in the penitentiary,

bigtime OG criminals, calling me,






telling me they want me

to lead their movement.








I mean, I'm gonna have a problem.






So they told me to watch my language.






Fuck that.






I'm gonna have a small identity crisis.

I felt like, "I got every man in America






"who wants to take orders from me,

who wants to know what I wanna do."






Holler if you hear me

Pump, pump if you're pissed






Wants to know my plan for young

black males. That makes me scared.






My homeys in the back streets

The black streets








They fear me when they rolling

In they phat jeeps






This ain't just a rap song

A black song






Telling my brothers, get they strap on

And look for me in the struggle






Hustling to the other brother's bubble

Holler if you hear me






And I'm 22.






I was having concerts sold out,

white boys, Mexicans, blacks,






and they would do what I say.

I could tell them to turn in a circle,






and they would do it.

I was having love,






like, undeniable love,

and I was scared.








Holler if you hear me






I was scared, but so was America,

so was somebody else.






- I'm a liberal Democrat.

- I'm a conservative Republican,






but we both worry about

the society our children live in.






But that makes me want

to rise to the occasion.






It makes me want

to give my whole life to it.






And I will give my whole life to

this plan that I have for Thug Life.






That's my new posse,

my new way of thinking.








That's how we rolling in the nine-three,

Thug Life.






By "thug", I mean, not criminal,

someone that beats you.






I mean, the underdog.






The person that had nothing

and succeeds is a thug






because he overcame all obstacles.






It has nothing to do

with the dictionary's version.






To me, thug is my pride, not being

someone that goes against the law,






not being someone that takes,

but being someone that has nothing,






and even though I have nothing and

no home to go to, my head is up high.








My chest is out. I walk tall.

I talk loud. I'm being strong.






I'm against racial, ethnic entitlements.

I think they are un-American.






I don't understand why America

doesn't get Thug Life.






America is Thug Life.






How is me saying,

"I don't give a fuck,"






different than Patrick Henry saying,

"Give me liberty or give me death"?






What makes my freedom

less worth fighting for than Bosnians






or whoever they wanna

fight for this year?








They should give money to the ghetto.






Even gangs can be positive.

It just has to be organized.






It has to steer away from being self-

destructive to being self-productive.






I organized the OGs on the East

and West Coasts in penitentiaries






to come up with

codes of ethics for criminals.






It's called the Code of Thug Life.






It's a code, putting order

to the violence on the streets.






In Watts, Compton,

Chicago, wherever.






People all over the country say,

"We go by this code.








"We're against attacks on people

not involved with the street gang,






"the drug trade

or the illegal business at all.






"All that kidnapping and shooting

drive-bys, we against that."






Thug Life ain't just a bunch

of niggas going crazy.






We wanna patrol our streets.

So all we saying is,






if every motherfucker out here

right now gave up one dollar






to this Thug Life fund,

the money don't go to me,






it go to somebody

from y'all neighborhood,








and we do this shit every month.

I'll bring new rappers,






I'll bring Snoop,

whoever y'all want.






I'll go snatch them niggas.






For that shit to happen,

we can't have violence,






and everybody gotta be down

for that shit.






We gonna start slowly but surely

taking our communities back.






Regulate our community. Organize.

Start taking care of our own.






We gotta start somewhere, and I don't

know about anything but this.






- What is the message, though?

- All the people you threw away,








the dope dealers, criminals, they

will be legit next to you in first class,






thanks to your boy.






You know those

little things for mice,






where they go through

and there's little blocks?






Well, society is like that.






They'll let you go as far as you want,

but when you ask too many questions






and you're ready to change,

boom, that block'll come.






There is no reason

for a record like this








to be published

by a responsible corporation.






Never before has there been

such a will to use music






to advertise self-destructive violence.






It glorifies violence. It's creating

a culture of guns and rape.






Adding insult to injury, she says,

is rapper Tupac Shakur






being nominated

for an NAACP lmage Award.






I got the whole world fearing me,

and I ain't even started.






I don't have my plan,

and they're trying to stop me.






I challenge the view that those

who revel in violence and depravity,








on the screen or in the song,

bear no responsibility






when that spirit spreads

into our culture.






No disrespect to Bob Dole.

He don't know what he talking about.






He's just talking. Some card somebody

gave him, he's just reading off a card.






But he's cute, you know?

He's my grandfather.






- Right.

- He's an old dude, talking mess.






You don't have to use

vile and ugly language.






WPGC in Washington, D.C.

dropped violent or demeaning lyrics.








KACE in Los Angeles followed suit.






You're yelling, "Shoot!" in a community

that is crowded with guns.






I'm not looking for approval from the

black community. We are a part of it.






I'm a thug, and I rap about

the oppressed fighting back.






Yes, my raps are filled with rage.






You have to be logical. You know?

If I know that in this hotel room






You have to be logical. You know?

If I know that in this hotel room






they have food every day, and I'm

knocking on the door every day to eat,






and they open the door,

let me see the party,








let me see them

throwing salami all over,






I mean, just throwing food around,

but they're telling me there's no food.






Every day, I'm standing outside

trying to sing my way in.






We are hungry, please let us in

We are hungry, please let us in






After about a week that song

is gonna change to:






We hungry, we need some food






After two, three weeks, it's like:






Give me the food

Or I'm breaking down the door








After a year you're just like:






I'm picking the lock

Coming through the door blasting






It's like, you hungry,

you reached your level.






We asked ten years ago.

We was asking with the Panthers.






We was asking with them, the Civil

Rights Movement. We was asking.






Those people that asked

are dead and in jail.






So now what do you think

we're gonna do? Ask?






I put my gun away and grab my AK

It's getting hectic, I can't call it






House full of alcoholics

Now we're niggas under pressure








There's a bad part because

kids see that and mimic you.






I haven't figured that out yet.

But the positive side






is the kids who live in a house

where the mother is a crackhead,






he hears the rap. He's like,

"That's every day.






"So I don't have to feel ashamed."

It cuts both ways.






To me, it's like, when I sing:






I live the Thug Life

Baby, I'm hopeless






One person might hear that

and just like the way it sounds.








But I'm doing it for the kid that lives

a Thug Life and feels like it's hopeless.






So when I say, "Hopeless", and when

I say it like that, it's like I reach him.






And even if, when I reach him,






it makes it look glorious

to the guy that doesn't live that life,






I can't help it. It's a fad.

He'll drop the Thug Life soon.






But for the person I tried to reach, he'll

pick it up, and I'll be able to talk to him.






I try to be responsible,

but it's hard.






If you worry about what you're saying,

I get writer's block.






Kind of like, "I can't say that.

That's too harsh. Can't say this."








I have to block it out and trust

my heart that I'm doing the right thing.






Pretty spit...

I was spitting.






- Chill out. Chill out.

- That's my style. That's my new style.






- That's my new style.

- 'Pac, chill out.






That's my new style.






Hey, have a good summer.






Have a good summer, bitch!






But I'm not saying

I didn't make mistakes.








Like some of the things I said when

I was fighting the Hughes brothers.






I beat up the directors

to Menace II Society.






- All right, tell them why you did that.

- These chump, punk, slump...






- You'll be able to rebuttal to that.

- No, they better come now.






Check this out, they fired me

in a roundabout, punk, snitch way.






So I caught them on the streets

and beat they behinds.






I was a menace to the

Hughes brothers. It ain't over!






I still got more for you chumps!

I read what you said about me!






I'm gonna kick their ass!








My big mouth.






Mind y'all business, I'll mind mine.

I do what I gotta do,






you do what you gotta do.

Long as I give you 12 tracks,






you give me my $12, and we even.

I don't gotta be a role model.






I don't gotta hold your hand.

I don't gotta do shit.






My big mouth.

I got a big mouth, can't help it.






- I talk from my heart, I'm real.

- We talked about






people in this business that you feel

don't have a love for their own people.








We was talking about

Spike Lee, Arsenio Hall,






Eddie Murphy and the rest of them.






I thought I was charming, but I was

immature. I did things without thinking.






Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson,






Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul,

all of them.






She wants to not be black,

but sell to blacks.






I don't appreciate her going

out of her way to say she's not black.






My actions came before thought.

Things that I did, things I said.






So many things I wanna take back.








Eddie Murphy, with all that dough he's

making, hasn't done nothing for us.






- He does a lot of charity.

- Charity doesn't get to the ghetto.






Everybody knows that.






I was young and dumb.






Being mad at Spike Lee

and all those people, all of that.






The thing I said of Quincy Jones,






he shouldn't mess

with white women.






I said I was sorry personally for that.








I didn't think of how

it would hurt people.






I'm gonna catch y'all in traffic and

be the roughest nigga you ever seen.






That turned into

more legal problems.






The People truly believe that

Mr. Shakur has shown no remorse






whatsoever for his action in this case.






We view Mr. Shakur's appearance

on Yo! MTV Raps as bragging.






He was proud of what he did

and does not feel sorry.






I just want to say, judge,

that I have a great deal of remorse.






As far as I want you to treat

me different, I don't want that.








I just want the chance to make right

from all the bad things that I got.






I got things against me

and people that look up to me.






I don't want the last place

they see me to be jail.






I guess it's now time

for me to render the sentence.






I obviously find that the defendant

is a talented individual.






However, this court believes that jail

time is warranted with a battery






with some injury involved.






The defendant will serve 15 days

in the county jail.








I think the judge was fair.






I still don't feel like I got

the decision that I wanted,






but he was as fair as he could be.






Really, to my homeboys, I mean,

a fight is a fight, battery is battery.






A two and a half minute problem

just cost me 15 days in jail,






and that was lenient.






But my most serious legal problems

came from women.






How I was acting with women.






The Underground just don't stop

For ho's, I get around








I will no longer sit passively,

allowing this degradation






to be continued by our children.






I think we live in a very sexist society,






and everybody's pointing

the finger at me.






When somebody asks me,

"Do you exploit women?"






With her permission, I might

smack a girl on the butt in the video.






I might be drinking champagne,

but everything in moderation,






and everything with class.








Fingertips on the hips as I dip

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip






Loose lips sink ships, it's a trip

I love the way she licks her lips






See me jocking, put a little twist

In her hips because I'm watching






I don't have to always do a song

with the good woman.






I don't see women as all one thing.

I think all women are different.






You wonder why they call you bitch

You wonder why they call you bitch






We African-American

women, particularly,






are tired of being called ho's,

bitches and sluts by our children.






Dear Ms. DeLores Tucker

You keep stressing me








Fucking with a motherfucking mind

I figured you wanted to know






Why we call them ho's bitches






If I do something that has a bad

woman, people go, "He hates women."






If I do something that has a bad

woman, people go, "He hates women."






I don't think like that. But there

are definitely a type of female,






label them a bitch, whose main thing

is to get what they can,






and they revel in breaking a nigga's

heart and taking what he owns.






Shut the fuck up!








There's male bitches too.






Women know there are bitches.

I don't know why they're surprised.






They know. They say it louder.






They think we say they're all bitches.

That's not what we're saying.






I give a holler to my sisters on welfare






Tupac cares

And don't nobody else care






That's "Keep Ya Head Up"

and "Get Around".






I said, "I'm gonna write a song

about women like my mom,






"who represent a strong

black woman." I did that.








I'll rap about women I see daily.

That's "Get Around".






If I just did "Keep Ya Head Up",

it makes me seem more than I am,






but I'm just a normal man.






America, America






- God shed his grace on thee

- Stop.






I'm gonna close the door.






Come on, Mr. Cameraman.






This is some real private shit that's

about to happen, Mr. Cameraman.








Bye.






Anyway, I'll let you hear the sounds.






Is there a double standard

for men being promiscuous?






Yeah, but we didn't start

that double standard.






- I'm not saying you did.

- And I'm not saying it's fair.






I'm saying this is how it is. How can we

rap about a world that is not like that?






- This is how it is.

- Do you look down on males






if they're as promiscuous as women?






I don't look down on anybody

that's promiscuous.








I only look down on people

who don't control the situation.






If a girl sleeps with a lot of guys,

she's still my homegirl.






You're only a bitch, not if you

sleep with a lot of guys,






but if you're sleeping

with them for money.






- So you put a price on yourself.

- Because they have a nice car.






Guys, when they sleep around,

they do it for free.






At that time, a lot of girls, they'd seen

my face on TV so many times,






they wanna be associated

with that person.








It's the fame that gets these people.

It's not me. It's the fame.






I've seen females look at

me when they didn't know me,






and I can see it, nothing.






Then someone whisper who I was,

it's this glare in the eye.






- You make yourself want them.

- How do you feel about that?






I don't understand how people can

stand next to you one year,






and next year, they cannot.

They're going crazy, screaming.






They can't take it that you're there.

But last year I was in the same club,






walking around,

lonely like a motherfucker.








Couldn't get a date or a dance.

I was too skinny, too something,






and now, "He's just adorable.

He's just, oh!"






But I still enjoyed sex without

the emotional connection.






And it was always a fantasy

for me to have sex






with a lot of people in the room.






But I didn't play

one situation correctly.






Rap singer Tupac Shakur was

released on $50,000 bail today,






accused of a sexual attack

in a New York hotel.








The singer was arrested Thursday

night after a woman claimed






he and three other men

overpowered her in a hotel suite.






- Are you disappointing your fans?

- Very, but they're gonna support me.






With bodyguards and attorneys, he

went into Manhattan Criminal Court.






There, the rapper and two friends were

charged with first-degree