... album "All Eyez on Me" which was released seven months before his "death", he says "Bury me smiling, with G's (money) in my pocket, have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it, let the hoes that I used to know from way before kiss me from my head to my toes, give me a paper and pen ... his friends because he will not be caught? It is believed that Tupac is behind the assassination of The Notorious B.I.G., which would certainly co-incide with these lyrics. " A general in war, I"m the first to bomb, with a squad of trusted killers, quick to move shit, heavily armed-. His reference t...

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... . "But why be a thug?" was heard from a member of his audience. "Because if I don't, I"ll lose everything I have. Who else is going to love me but the thugs?" Tupac's raps are part screaming, part preaching, part talking of others. The music is dense and, at times, so loud it drowns out the ... that I understand. / You are appreciated." "Keep Ya Head Up," Strictly for my N*ggaz (Interscope): With a kind of compassion that is rare from any performer - let alone a gangster rapper - 2Pac advises: "Be real to our women And if we don't we"ll have a race of babies / Who hate the ladies / That ...

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... about the reality of the black societies. Tupac said the album "was his practice to introduce a center character through whom he could develop a narrative". The album was bursting with militant lyrics, illustrating violence between the police and young black males. Most stories in which violence encounters, often leads to death and imprisonment. (http://www.alleyezonme.com) One of the most popular ... for the 23 years of his life. In "Dear Mama" he says, "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 an...

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... move, Tupac would attend the Baltimore High School for the Performing Arts. This school is what started Tupac in his love of poetry as well as music. Tupac also began writing his rap lyrics here. Rap and music inspired Tupac but may have also been his downfall. This is how he ultimately became the ... "mad cash" so he could "buy my mom the house I've always promised her." He cut ties with Digital Underground in 1991. Through Tupac's poetry he let everyone know that he was sensitive underneath, you just had to look hard. Tupac's poems were mostly written about life. How he saw it, what ...

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