Tupac: Resurrection Page #7

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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.]

[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, b*tch!

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 sh*t.

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 b*tch

You wonder why they call you b*tch

We African-American

women, particularly,

are tired of being called ho's,

b*tches and sluts by our children.

Dear Ms. DeLores Tucker

You keep stressing me

F***ing with a motherfucking mind

I figured you wanted to know

Why we call them ho's b*tches

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 b*tch, 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 f*** up!

There's male b*tches too.

Women know there are b*tches.

I don't know why they're surprised.

They know. They say it louder.

They think we say they're all b*tches.

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.

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