It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have...
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It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
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In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in...
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I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
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I'm a reflection of the community.
I'm a reflection of the community.
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go in...
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The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.
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I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a ho...
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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
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The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will cha...
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
America wants its respect.
America wants its respect.
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly c...
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I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
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It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes". In Vibe intervie...
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Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes". In Vibe interview 2/96
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I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. ...
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I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
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Let the Lord judge the criminals.
Let the Lord judge the criminals.
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to...
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My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
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All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that t...
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All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
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I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobo...
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I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
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But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Y...
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But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man.
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I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I resp...
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I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
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I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New...
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I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
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I'll probably be punished for hard living.
I'll probably be punished for hard living.
There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
With all my fans I got a family again.
With all my fans I got a family again.
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted?...
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I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
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I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the co...
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If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Thug Life to me is dead.
Thug Life to me is dead.
Dre was one of my heroes in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be ...
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Dre was one of my heroes in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
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I swear, if they hadn't tried to ruin me, I never would have ended up being a rapper. I probably wou...
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I swear, if they hadn't tried to ruin me, I never would have ended up being a rapper. I probably would have been a preacher or something.
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What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This...
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What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
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