Tupac Shakur Quotes about Rap

I'm down for you, so ride with me. My enemies your enemies, Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.

If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget That God isn't finished with me yet. I feel His hand on my brain... When I write rhymes, I go blind and let the Lord do His thang.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Can you picture my prophecy?

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes

I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

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.

Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up... Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again