THIS IS A LITTLE OF WHAT I HAVE TO SAY.... I JUST COULDNT FIT IT ALL.....
"Only God can judge me."
Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in New York, New York on June 16, 1971 and died from fatal gun shot wounds in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 13, 1996. Not only famous for his music, he was also a well respected actor with several films.
2Pac was a deep, multi-faceted individual. 2Pac's lyrics always went deep into the meaning of many political and social subjects including violence, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and broken families. He was well read as noted by his extensive reading list. 2Pac's poetry also reflected his many sides, some poems were motivated by love, others seeking to understand himself better and others by the cruel injustices of America and society.
2Pac was famous for being down to die for everything he represented always real and upfront. Some people consider 2Pac a modern-day prophet. 2pac was known for claming THUG LIFE, now thug life didn’t mean what thug is described as in the dictionary, when he said thug, or thug life, he was talking about the under dog someone with nothing, someone with pain in his heart. he never sold out, you could still catch 2pac at a grimy party in the middle of the ghetto with no security, getting drunk next you. He loved his fans.
Being real and upfront, trouble always seemed to come naturally. Tupac was charged with rape, a crime he did not commit, but was still convicted of sodomy (forcibly touching the buttocks). Many witnesses seen the girl who made these accusations voluntarily give 2Pac oral sex on a night club dance floor. Tupac was also charged with shooting two off-duty police officers, but those charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence. The fatal shooting in Vegas was the second shooting 2Pac was involved. The first occured in 1994 in New York.
Most likely, 2Pac's killer was Orlando Anderson, a south-side crip. Theories abound as to who coordinated the hit. Some believe it happened spur of the moment out of Orlando's rage. Others believe Suge Knight had 2Pac killed. The Las Vegas Times recently reported Biggie Smalls had 2Pac killed. Still others, believe it was an elaborate scheme and 2Pac is still alive (he faked his own death). This is for you to decide.
Tupac Facts……
TuPac Amaru is Inca for "shining serpent." Shakur is Arabic for "thankful to God".
Janet Jackson demanded 2Pac take an HIV test before she would do any kissing scenes for the film Poetic Justice.
2Pac didn't have a criminal record before he became a rap star.
In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle said 2Pac's 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society."
2Pac wrote his first rap at 15.
At 15, 2Pac also attended Baltimore School for the Arts where he studied ballet and acting.
2Pac's Death Row debut album, All Eyez on Me, was rap's first double CD.
While he was in jail, 2Pac's 1995 album, Me Against the World, debuted at No. 1. It went double platinum in 7 months.
If you really think that Tupac is a bad person, then you have never really listen to his music, you haven’t really thought about what he says, you don’t understand what he is about, when he is angry you can tell he says it in his music, when he is sad you can tell, when 2pac is happy you can tell. Before u label this man as a bad person take a look at what he did, and what he is still doing, and would be doing if not dead, this man is a leader, someone that could of change things where no body really cares, in the ghetto’s where people don’t have nothing, but a man that was misunderstood. I really don’t think that this man is trully gone, I feel him every time I turn on one of his records, I can feel him touching me, I wish that you all could see what he was really trying to do. You need to learn how to listen to music.
Tupac's own words:
"I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts."
"I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing... is right. So I feel like I 'm going to heaven. I think heaven is just when you sleep, you sleep with a good conscience, you don't have nightmares. Hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see is all the f*cked up things you did in your life and you just see it over and over again, cause you don't burn. If that's the case, it's hell on earth cause bullets burn."
"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the strong-willed, people that feel that they have nothing. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My music 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."
"Live by the gun die by the gun."
"We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who i am, this is what i do. I say what's on my mind."
"When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope I die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for"
"There's gonna be some stuff u gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but through whatever you see, Through all the rain and all the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit."
"In my death, people will understand what I was talking about."
"Now the whole worlds callin me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer."
"How can I survive? Got me askin white Jesus
will a nigga live or die, cause the Lord can't see us in the deep dark clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine No sunny days and we only play sometimes."
"I am societies child, this is how they made me, and now im sayin what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America."
"Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. Im not the thief who grabs your purse. Im not the guy who jacks your car. Im not down with the people who steal and hurt others. Im just a brother who fight back."
"My only fear of death is comin back reincarnated."
"It always happens, all the n*ggaz that change the world die, they dont get to die like regular people, they die violently."
"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."
"You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on US, to do what we gotta do to survive."
"They got money for wars but they can't feed the poor."
"I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everthing I say."
"If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them."
Tupac's Movies:
Gang Related (Criminal Intent)
Gridlock'd
Bullet
Above The Rim
Poetic Justice
Juice
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME ON THIS SHIT, CHECK OUT THIS MOVIE….. TUPAC RESURECTION………IT WILL SHOW U THE SIDE OF TUPAC THAT U NEVER GUESSED…..
Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in New York, New York on June 16, 1971 and died from fatal gun shot wounds in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 13, 1996. Not only famous for his music, he was also a well respected actor with several films.
2Pac was a deep, multi-faceted individual. 2Pac's lyrics always went deep into the meaning of many political and social subjects including violence, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and broken families. He was well read as noted by his extensive reading list. 2Pac's poetry also reflected his many sides, some poems were motivated by love, others seeking to understand himself better and others by the cruel injustices of America and society.
2Pac was famous for being down to die for everything he represented always real and upfront. Some people consider 2Pac a modern-day prophet. 2pac was known for claming THUG LIFE, now thug life didn’t mean what thug is described as in the dictionary, when he said thug, or thug life, he was talking about the under dog someone with nothing, someone with pain in his heart. he never sold out, you could still catch 2pac at a grimy party in the middle of the ghetto with no security, getting drunk next you. He loved his fans.
Being real and upfront, trouble always seemed to come naturally. Tupac was charged with rape, a crime he did not commit, but was still convicted of sodomy (forcibly touching the buttocks). Many witnesses seen the girl who made these accusations voluntarily give 2Pac oral sex on a night club dance floor. Tupac was also charged with shooting two off-duty police officers, but those charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence. The fatal shooting in Vegas was the second shooting 2Pac was involved. The first occured in 1994 in New York.
Most likely, 2Pac's killer was Orlando Anderson, a south-side crip. Theories abound as to who coordinated the hit. Some believe it happened spur of the moment out of Orlando's rage. Others believe Suge Knight had 2Pac killed. The Las Vegas Times recently reported Biggie Smalls had 2Pac killed. Still others, believe it was an elaborate scheme and 2Pac is still alive (he faked his own death). This is for you to decide.
Tupac Facts……
TuPac Amaru is Inca for "shining serpent." Shakur is Arabic for "thankful to God".
Janet Jackson demanded 2Pac take an HIV test before she would do any kissing scenes for the film Poetic Justice.
2Pac didn't have a criminal record before he became a rap star.
In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle said 2Pac's 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society."
2Pac wrote his first rap at 15.
At 15, 2Pac also attended Baltimore School for the Arts where he studied ballet and acting.
2Pac's Death Row debut album, All Eyez on Me, was rap's first double CD.
While he was in jail, 2Pac's 1995 album, Me Against the World, debuted at No. 1. It went double platinum in 7 months.
If you really think that Tupac is a bad person, then you have never really listen to his music, you haven’t really thought about what he says, you don’t understand what he is about, when he is angry you can tell he says it in his music, when he is sad you can tell, when 2pac is happy you can tell. Before u label this man as a bad person take a look at what he did, and what he is still doing, and would be doing if not dead, this man is a leader, someone that could of change things where no body really cares, in the ghetto’s where people don’t have nothing, but a man that was misunderstood. I really don’t think that this man is trully gone, I feel him every time I turn on one of his records, I can feel him touching me, I wish that you all could see what he was really trying to do. You need to learn how to listen to music.
Tupac's own words:
"I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts."
"I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing... is right. So I feel like I 'm going to heaven. I think heaven is just when you sleep, you sleep with a good conscience, you don't have nightmares. Hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see is all the f*cked up things you did in your life and you just see it over and over again, cause you don't burn. If that's the case, it's hell on earth cause bullets burn."
"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the strong-willed, people that feel that they have nothing. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My music 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."
"Live by the gun die by the gun."
"We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who i am, this is what i do. I say what's on my mind."
"When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope I die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for"
"There's gonna be some stuff u gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but through whatever you see, Through all the rain and all the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit."
"In my death, people will understand what I was talking about."
"Now the whole worlds callin me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer."
"How can I survive? Got me askin white Jesus
will a nigga live or die, cause the Lord can't see us in the deep dark clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine No sunny days and we only play sometimes."
"I am societies child, this is how they made me, and now im sayin what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America."
"Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. Im not the thief who grabs your purse. Im not the guy who jacks your car. Im not down with the people who steal and hurt others. Im just a brother who fight back."
"My only fear of death is comin back reincarnated."
"It always happens, all the n*ggaz that change the world die, they dont get to die like regular people, they die violently."
"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."
"You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on US, to do what we gotta do to survive."
"They got money for wars but they can't feed the poor."
"I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everthing I say."
"If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them."
Tupac's Movies:
Gang Related (Criminal Intent)
Gridlock'd
Bullet
Above The Rim
Poetic Justice
Juice
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME ON THIS SHIT, CHECK OUT THIS MOVIE….. TUPAC RESURECTION………IT WILL SHOW U THE SIDE OF TUPAC THAT U NEVER GUESSED…..