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,
dirtI'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
peaceCause the streets got our babies, we gotta
eatNo 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