A rather well rounded and lyrical rap artist.
Believe it or not,
influences a good portion of the rap and pop industry. If you're a rap or pop artist now and actually have talent, then I guarantee you listened to Tupac. If he was still alive, artists like Lil Wayne and 50 Cent would be floor moppers, Death Row would still be around, and rap would still be "Rhythm and Poetry," not "
Retards Attempting Poetry."
Got a body full of
bullet holes layin here naked
Still I, can't breathe, somethings evil in my IV
Cause everytime I breathe, I think they
killin me
I'm having
nightmares, homicidal fantansies
I wake up stranglin, danglin my bed sheets
I call the nurse cause it hurts, to reminisce
How did it come to this? I wish they didn't miss
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here
Cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Try to remember, but it hurts
I'm walkin through the cemetary talkin to the, dirt
I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward
There's a ghetto up in Heaven and it's ours, Black Power
is what we scream as we dream in a paranoid state
And our fate, is a lifetime of hate
Dear Mama, can you save me? And fuck peace
Cause
the streets got our babies, we gotta eat
No more hesitation each and every black male's trapped
And they wonder why we suicidal runnin round strapped
-Tupac Shakur, Only God Can Judge Me