Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.
You know it’s funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.
The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.
Real eyes, realize, real lies...
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.
If you’re a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.
There ain’t no place like paradise.
I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody’s gonna find out about.
When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It’s mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.
You can’t disrespect the love. You can’t disrespect the peace treaty.
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 things.
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.
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.
Heaven ain’t hard to find; all you gotta do is look.
My music will mean something. I’ll have my own production company. I’m doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.
I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I’m gonna put out an introspective album.
Tomorrow comes after the dark.
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 ain’t calling me God. I’m just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.
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.