Today is filled with anger
fueled with hidden hate
scared of being outcast
afraid of common fate
Today is built on tragedies
which no one wants 2 face
nightmares 2 humanities
and morally disgraced
Tonight is filled with rage violence in the air
children bred with ruthlessness
because no one at home cares
Tonight I lay my head down
but the pressure never stops
knawing at my sanity
content when I am dropped
But 2morrow I c change
a chance 2 build a new
Built on spirit intent of Heart
and ideals based on truth
and tomorrow I wake with second wind
and strong because of pride
2 know I fought with all my heart 2 keep my dream alive
When I was younger and my mama had beef
Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets
Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Suspended from school; and scared to go home, I was a fool
with the big boys, breakin all the rules
I shed tears with my baby sister
Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame mama
I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
And who'd think in elementary?
Heeey! I see the penitentiary, one day
And runnin from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
And even as a crack fiend, mama
You always was a black queen, mama
I finally understand
for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There's no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
DOB: June 16, 1971 - Brooklyn, NY DOD: September 13, 1996 - Las Vegas, NV Measurements: 5'9" 165 lbs. Divorced: Keisha Morris Engaged: Kidada Jones Occupation: Rapper / Actor / Poet Fav. Food: Fried Chicken Wings with Hot Sauce Fav. Drink: Orange Pop Fav. Colors: Black and Gold Zodiac Sign: Gemini Mother: Alice Fay Williams aka Afeni Shakur Father: William Garland Stepfather: Jeral Wayne Williams aka Mutulu Shakur Half Sister: Sekyiwa Shakur Stepbrother: Maurice Harding (Mopreme - Thug Life) Godfather: Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt Music Groups: Born Busy, One Nation Emcees, Two From The Crew, Strictly Dope, Digital Underground, Thug Life, Outlaw Immortalz/Outlawz Aliases: MC New York, 2Pac, Makaveli (the don)
June 16, 1971, Tupac (born Lesane Parish Crooks) was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was named after an Inca Indian revolutionary: Tupac Amaru means "shining serpent", and Shakur is arabic for "thankful to God". Tupac was the son of the politcal activist Alice Faye Williams (Afeni Shakur). She was a member if the Black Panther Party. Tupac grew up without knowing that his biological father was still alive. Afeni moves in with Mutulu Shakur who becomes Tupac's stepfather and confidant for the rest of his life. Tupac accepted him as a father figure.
In 1981 Tupac's stepfather Mutulu is accused of planning and executing the "Brinks robbery", where two New York policemen and a Brinks guard were killed. Mutulu goes underground for several years, maintaining his innocence.
At the age of 12 Tupac found a passion for acting and writing poetry. Afeni enrolls him in a Harlem theater group. Tupac plays Travis in 'A Raisin the Sun' as his first performance.
In 1986 Mutulu is arrested, convicted and now serves a 60-year penalty. He still denice his involment with the holdup. While looking for a better life, Tupac and his family moves to Baltimore, MD, where he attended at the Baltimore School for the Performing Arts. There he meets Jada Pinkett who becomes a close friend of Pac's. Tupac left a lasting impression on his teachers and was showing tremendous potential. He goes under the alias "MC New York" and writes his first rap wich is about gun control, inspired after the death of a close friend.
Unfortunately, Tupac was unable to continue his training, and moved with his family to Marin City (The Jungle), California. He has been quoted saying "Leaving that school affected me so much, I see as the point where I got off track". The man side began to come out of Tupac as he now began to hang with the wrong crowd.
Tupac changed out his alias MC New York with a new one, 2Pac. He rapped with Ray Luv in a group called "Strictly Dope". They perform in small shows for people around the neighborhood. Tupac auditions for Greg Jacobs (Shock G) of the group Digital Underground. Tupac joins the group as a roadie, dancer and as a rapper. He toured with Digital Underground, instead of waiting around for them to get back in town to work on his album, he preferred to travel with them to kill time. He appeared on several songs with Digital Underground including "Same Song", "DFLO Shuffle", and "Wassup Wit Tha Luv".
Shortly thereafter, Tupac's first album was realeased. "2pacalypse Now" was in the shelves on November 12, 1991, when Tupac was 20 years of age. The album did all right and he became recognised in the music industry, and even by members of the government. Ronald Ray Howard, aged 19, shoots a Texas trooper. His attorney claims that the album "2pacalypse Now", wich was in Howard's tape deck, incited him to kill. Following an altercation between Tupac and some old acquaintances at a Marin City outdoor festival, a 6 year old boy is shot in the head and killed by a stray bullet that allegedly came from Pac's gun. Tupac is sued by the parrents of the boy and in 1996 agrees on a settlement. Vice President Dan Quayle blasted Pac by saying "2pacalypse Now has no place in our society". Tupac debuted at the silver-screen the same year. The movie is called "Juice". Tupac was applaued for his portrayal of "Bishop". The only bad thing about this movie is that many people thought that Pac lived like the man he played. The famous quote "I am crazy, and i don't give a f-ck", was taken from this movie.
A year later, 1993, Tupac Released, "Strictly 4 my NIGGAZ" with the guest appearances of Ice Cube, Ice T, Digital Underground, and featured hits like "I get around", and "Keep Your Head Up". He is nominated for an American Music Award as best new rapper/hip-hop artist. Tupac was sentenced for ten days in jail after threatening a local rapper with a baseball bat during a concert. He also fought with a limo driver after the driver accused him of using drugs in the car. Tupac was arrested but the charges later dropped. Tupac stared in the John Singleton movie "Poetic Jusctice" featuring Janet Jackson. Tupac was arrested the same year for allegedly shooting two armed, off-duty police officers who were harassing a black motorist. The police officers gun where stolen from the evidence locker. All charges against Pac eventually dropped. A 19 year old woman accuses Pac and three of his friends for sodomizing and sexually abusing her. John Singleton was forced by Columbia Pictures to drop Tupac from the cast of his upcoming movie "Higher Learning". Tupac is sentenced to fifteen days in jail after knocking out director Allen Hughes. Pac had recently been dropped from the film "Menace II Society".
In 1994 Tupac stars in the film "Above the Rim". A popular song from the soundtrack is "Pour Out a Little Liquor", recorded by Tupac's new group called Thug Life. Thug Life included Pac's stepbrother Mopreme. Other members are Big Syke, Macadoshis, Yanni and the Rated R. Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer citing Tupac's "Souljah's Story" from his debute album "2pacalypse Now", as inspiration. Tupac was also shot 5 times and robbed for $40,000 worth of jewelry in the lobby of a Times Square recording studio. While in the hospital, Tupac meats his biological father Billy Garland, whom he belived to be dead, for the first time. Tupac checks himself out of the hospital less than three hours after the surgery. He was concerned for his safety. The case remains unsolved. Tupac is in the middle of a trial for sex and weapons charges. He shows up at the courtroom in a wheelchair, and is acquitted of all sodomy and wheapons charges, but is found guilty of sexual abuse.
In 1995, Tupac sentenced up to four and a hald year in prison. He immediately begins to serve his time at New York's Riker's Island Penitentiary. While in jail, his third album "Me Agains The World" debutes as #1 on the Billboard charts. The album goes platinum in seven months. This is the first and only time an incarranated man had #1 album in the country. Pac kept himself busy in jail by reading, mainly by the author Niccolo Machiavelli, whom he got his alias, Makaveli from. From jail, Tupac marries Keisha Morris, his longtime girlfriend. The marrige is annulled shortly thereafter. After eight long months in jail, he made bail at one million dollars. Suge Knight CEO of Death Row Records paid the bill and had been trying to sign Tupac to Death Row in the past but Pac was loyal to Interscope. Tupac signed to Death Row. He intended to bring Thug Life with him but some members didn't want to go to Death Row, as Suge Knight was very notorious. When Tupac was still in prison he was already recruiting new members for his new rap group named Outlawz three members from Thug Life joined the Outlawz, Himself, Big Syke and Komani. While new comers Hussein Fatal, Khadafi, Napoleon, Kastro, EDI, Storm also made up the Outlawz.
Tupac quickly released his most popular album "All Eyez On Me". The album was the first two-CD hip-hop LP ever released, and reached number 1 on the charts. Death Row and Bad Boy employees rumble after the Soul Train Awards in LA. Words are exchanged and a gun is pulled.
Nothing could have stopped this man, he was on top of the world making movies and receiving good reviews and getting better acting jobs. Three days after he finished making "All Eyez On Me" Tupac began work on Makaveli: The Don Killuminati". Tupac never lived to see the album being put out. He died due to gunshot wounds. He and Suge Knight were attending the Mike Tyson Vs Bruce Seldom fight at the MGM Grand In Las Vegas, Nevada on the September the 7th, 1996. After the fight in the lobby, one of the staff from Death Row spotted Orlando Anderson. He was a crip who stole one of Death Row's chains. They attacked him and then stormed out of the MGM. Pulling up to an intersection, Tupac and his entourage were on their way to a charity concert at Death Row Records Club 662. When, suddenly, a car pulled up to the right of them. The men got out of the car and unloaded their guns into the car Tupac and Suge were in. Tupac lived in the hospital for seven days before dying to his wounds. Out of all the people there only one came forward who was the member of the Outlawz, his name was Kadafi. He also died, on the night of a Tyson match, he was shot, by Napoleon's cousin in the head apparently they were both drugged up and it was accidental.
Tupac never stopped working in the studio, Suge Knight told Michael Harris (this was said in DVD "Welcome To Death Row", Harris funded death row records) that "I don't need anyone on Death Row.. Except Tupac.. He is amazing, he never stops working.. he doesn't care about woman, or parties he just wants to work", that is why there are hundreds of unreleased material, which some of it has been released. Two movies he made also were released after he died. There are also loads of Tupac tribute songs, as Tupac touched so many lives he could feel peoples pain, someone once said that "The amazing thing about Tupac.. is he could take his and other peoples sufferings and word it into lyrics", there has also been Tupac Tribute DVD'S and videos.
Posted at 10/14/2004 11:12:41 am by youngblood_3 Say Somethin'
September 28, 2004
keEp yA HEaD Up
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack
in the concrete
Proving nature's law wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet
Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams
it learned 2 breathe fresh air
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared!
- Tupac Shakur
Sometimes I Cry
Sometimes when I'm alone
I cry because I'm on my own
The tears I cry R bitter and warm
They flow with life but take no form
I cry because my hear is torn
and I find it difficult to carry on
if I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that stops that long
To help another carry on
The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by
Than 2 stop and c what makes u cry
It's painful and sad and sometimes I cry
and no one cares about why.
- Tupac Shakur
In The Event Of My Demise
In the Event of My Demise
In the event of my Demise
when my heart can beat no more
I Hope I Die For A Principle
or A Belief that I had Lived 4
I will die Before My Time
Because I feel the shadow's Depth
so much I wanted 2 accomplish
before I reached my Death
I have come 2 grips with the possibility
and wiped the last tear from My eyes
I Loved All who were Positive
In the event of my Demise
- Tupac Shakur
And Tomorrow
Today is filled with anger
fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast
afraid of common fate.
Today is build on tragedies
which no one want's to face.
Nightmares to humanity
and morally disgraced.
Tonight is filled with Rage
violence in the air.
Children bred with ruthlessness
cause no one at home cares.
Tonight I lay my head down
but the pressure never stops
knowing that my sanity
content when I'm droped
But tomorrow I see change
a chance to build a new
build on spirit intent of heart
and ideas based on truth.
Tomorrow I wake with second wind
and strong because of pride.
I know I fought with all my heart
to keep the dream alive.
- Tupac Shakur
In The Depths Of Solitude
Eye, Exist in the Depths of Solitude
Pondering my true goal
Trying 2 find peace of mind
And still preserve my soul
Constantly yearning 2 be accepted
And from all receive respect
Never comprising but sometimes risky
And that is my only regret
A young heart with an old soul
How can there be Peace
How can eye be in the depths of Solitude
When there R 2 inside of me
This Duo within me causes
The perfect oppurtunity
2 learn and live twice as fast
As those who accept simplicity
-Tupac Shakur
Fallen Star
They could never understand
what u set out 2 do
instead they chose 2
ridicule u
when u got weak
they loved the sight
of your dimming
and flickering starlight
How could they understand what was so intricate
2 be loved by so many, so intimate
they wanted 2 c your lifeless corpse
this way u could not alter the course
of ignorance that they have set
2 make my people forget
what they have done for much 2 long
2 just forget and carry on
I had loved u forever because of who u r
and now I mourn our fallen star
- Tupac Shakur
Posted at 9/28/2004 1:46:33 pm by youngblood_3 Say Somethin'
June 24, 2004
Suicidal Thoughtz
When I die, fuck it I wanna go to hell
Cause I'm a piece of shit, it ain't hard to fuckin' tell
It don't make sense, goin' to heaven wit the goodie-goodies
Dressed in white, I like black Tims and black hoodies
God will probably have me on some real strict shit
No sleepin' all day, no gettin my dick licked
Hangin' with the goodie-goodies loungin' in paradise
Fuck that shit, I wanna tote guns and shoot dice
All my life I been considered as the worst
Lyin' to my mother, even stealin' out her purse
Crime after crime, from drugs to extortion
I know my mother wished she got a fuckin' abortion
She don't even love me like she did when I was younger
Suckin' on her chest just to stop my fuckin' hunger
I wonder if I died, would tears come to her eyes?
Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies
My babies' mothers 8 months, her little sister's 2
I swear to God I just want to slit my wrists and end this bullshit
Throw the Magnum to my head, threaten to pull shit
And squeeze, until the bed's, completely red
I'm glad I'm dead, a worthless fuckin' buddah head
The stress is buildin' up, I can't,
I can't believe suicide's on my fuckin' mind
I want to leave, I swear to God I feel like death is fuckin' callin' me
Naw you wouldn't understand (nigga, talk to me please)
You see its kinda like the crack did to Pookie, in New Jack
Except when I cross over, there ain't no comin' back
Should I die on the train track, like Remo in Beatstreet
People at the funeral frontin' like they miss me
My baby momma kissed me but she glad I'm gone
She knew me and her sista had somethin' goin' on
I reach my peak, I can't speak,
call my nigga Chic, tell him that my will is weak.
I'm sick of niggas lyin', I'm sick of bitches hawkin',
matter of fact, I'm sick of talkin'.
(BANG)
Posted at 6/24/2004 4:22:43 pm by youngblood_3 Comments (2)
May 19, 2004
u doin' aight there, Cuz?
Posted at 5/19/2004 2:37:31 pm by youngblood_3 Say Somethin'
May 18, 2004
ONLY GOD CAN JUDgE ME
Posted at 5/18/2004 1:14:21 pm by youngblood_3 Comments (1)
February 28, 2004
For u Mom....
"Dear Mama"
You are appreciated
[Verse One: 2Pac]
When I was younger and my mama had beef
Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets
Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Suspended from school; and scared to go home, I was a fool
with the big boys, breakin all the rules
I shed tears with my baby sister
Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame mama
I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
And who'd think in elementary?
Heeey! I see the penitentiary, one day
And runnin from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
And even as a crack fiend, mama
You always was a black queen, mama
I finally understand
for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There's no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
Chorus:
Lady...
Don't cha know we love ya? Sweet lady
Dear mama
Place no one above ya, sweet lady
You are appreciated
Don't cha know we love ya?
[second and third chorus, "And dear mama" instead of "Dear mama"]
[Verse Two: 2Pac]
Now ain't nobody tell us it was fair
No love from my daddy cause the coward wasn't there
He passed away and I didn't cry, cause my anger
wouldn't let me feel for a stranger
They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along
I was lookin for a father he was gone
I hung around with the Thugs, and even though they sold drugs
They showed a young brother love
I moved out and started really hangin
I needed money of my own so I started slangin
I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks
It feels good puttin money in your mailbox
I love payin rent when the rent's due
I hope ya got the diamond necklace that I sent to you
Cause when I was low you was there for me
And never left me alone because you cared for me
And I could see you comin home after work late
You're in the kitchen tryin to fix us a hot plate
Ya just workin with the scraps you was given
And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin
But now the road got rough, you're alone
You're tryin to raise two bad kids on your own
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
[Chorus]
[Verse Three: 2Pac]
Pour out some liquor and I reminsce, cause through the drama
I can always depend on my mama
And when it seems that I'm hopeless
You say the words that can get me back in focus
When I was sick as a little kid
To keep me happy there's no limit to the things you did
And all my childhood memories
Are full of all the sweet things you did for me
And even though I act craaazy
I gotta thank the Lord that you made me
There are no words that can express how I feel
You never kept a secret, always stayed real
And I appreciate, how you raised me
And all the extra love that you gave me
I wish I could take the pain away
If you can make it through the night there's a brighter day
Everything will be alright if ya hold on
It's a struggle everyday, gotta roll on
And there's no way I can pay you back
But my plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
[Chorus]
Sweet lady
And dear mama
Dear mama
Lady [3X]
Posted at 2/28/2004 12:22:10 pm by youngblood_3 Say Somethin'
When I was younger and my mama had beef
Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets
Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face
Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
Suspended from school; and scared to go home, I was a fool
with the big boys, breakin all the rules
I shed tears with my baby sister
Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
When things went wrong we'd blame mama
I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
And who'd think in elementary?
Heeey! I see the penitentiary, one day
And runnin from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
And even as a crack fiend, mama
You always was a black queen, mama
I finally understand
for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man
You always was committed
A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
There's no way I can pay you back
But the plan is to show you that I understand
You are appreciated
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