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Dear
Mama - Tupac
You are appreciated...
When I was young, me and my mama had beef
17 years old kicked out on tha streets
though back in tha time, I never thought I'd see her face
ain't a woman alive that can take my mommas place
suspended from school, scared ta go home
I was a fool with tha big boys breaking all tha rules
shed tears with my baby sister
over tha years we wuz poorer than tha other little kids
and even though we had different dadies
tha same drama when things went wrong we blamed mama
I reminisced on tha stress I caused, it wuz hell
hugg'en on my mama from a jail cell
and who'ed think in elementary, heeeey i'd see tha penitentiary
One day
running from tha Police, that's right
Momma catch me--put a whoop'en to my backside
and even as a crack fiend mama,
ya always was a black queen mama
I finally understand for a woman
it ain't easy--trying ta raise a man
ya always wuz committed, a poor single mother on welfare,
tell me how ya did it
there's no way I can pay ya back
but tha plan is ta show ya that I understand.
you are appreciated...
Chorus
Laaaaady, don't cha know we luv ya
Sweeeet Laaaady, place no one above ya
Sweeeet Laaaady, don't cha know we luv ya
Ain't nobody tell us it wuz fair
no luv for my daddy, cause tha coward wuzn't there
he passed away and I didn't cry
cause my anger, wouldn't let me feel for a stranger
they say i'm wrong and I'm heartless
but all along I wuz looking for a father
he wuz gone
I hung around with tha thug's and even though they sold drugs
they showed a young brother luv
I moved out and started really hang'in
I needed money of my own so I started slang'in I ain't guilty cause,
even though I sell rocks
It feels good, putting money in your mailbox
I love paying rent when tha rents due
I hope ya got tha diamond necklace that I sent to you
cause when I wuz low, you was there for me
ya never left me alone, cause ya cared for me
and I can see ya coming home after work late
ya in tha kitchen trying ta fix us a hot plate
just working with tha scraps you wuz given
and mama made miracles every Thanksgiving
but now tha road got rough, your alone
trying ta raise two bad kids on your own
and there's no way I can pay ya back
but my plan is ta show ya that I understand
you are appreciated...
Chorus
pour out some liquor and I reminisce
cause through tha drama, I can always depend on my mama
and when it seems that I'm hopeless
you say tha words that can get me back in focus
when I wuz sick as a little kid
ta keep me happy there's no limit to tha things ya did
and all my childhood memories
are full of all tha sweet things ya did for me
and even though I act craaaazy
I got ta thank tha Lord that ya maaaade me
There are no words that can express how I feel
Ya never kept a secret, always stayed real
and I appreciate how ya raised me
and all tha extra love that ya gave me
I wish I could take tha pain away
If you can make it through tha night, there's a brighter day
everything'll be alright if ya hold on
it's a struggle
everyday gotta roll on
and there's no way I can pay ya back
but my plan is ta show ya that I understand
you are appreciated...
Chorus
Changes
I see no Changes, I wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living should I blast myself
I'm tired of being poor and even worse I'm black
My stomach hurts so I'm lookin for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
Pull a trigger kill a nigger he's a hero
Give the %&#! to da kids who da hell cares
One less hungry mouth on a welfare
First ship 'em dope let 'em deal to brothers
Give 'em guns step back let 'em kill each other
Time to fight back thats what Huey said
2 shots in the dark now Hueys dead
I got luv for my brothers
But we could never go no where 'less we share with eachother
We need to make some Changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
And dats how its supposed to be
How could I ever take a brother if he's close to me, uh
I love to go back to when we played as kids
But things change, and thats the way it is
[Chorus]x2
Thats just the way it is...
Things will never be the same....
Thats just the way it is...
Ahhh
yeah
I see
no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under, I wonder what it take to make this
one better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
Cause both black and white are smokin' crack tonight
And only time we deal is when we kill each other
It takes skills to be real, time to heal each other
And though it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President, huh
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
Try to show another way but stayin' in da dope game
Tell me whats a mother to do being real don't appeal to da brother
in you
Ya gotta operate the easy way
[I made a G today]
But you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin' dope to the kids
[I gotta get paid]
Well hey, that way it is
[Chorus]x2
[2Pac
Talking]
We need to make some Changes
We need to change the way we eat, the way we live and the way we
treat
eachother
See, the old way wasn't workin, so its on us to do what we gotta
do
to survive
Still
I see no Changes, can't a brother a little peace
There's war on the streets and the war on the Middle East
Instead of a war on poverty
They got a war on drugs so the police can bother me
I ain't never did no crime I ain't have to do
But now I'm back on the track givin' it back to you
Don't let 'em jack you, back you up
smack you up and pimp slap you up
You gotta learn to hold your own
They get jealous when they see you with your mobile phone
I tell the cops can't touch this I don't trust this
when they try to rush I bust this
Sound on the 2, they say it ain't cool
My momma didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped
and never get to laid back
I always gotta worry about the payback
From some buck that I roughed up way back
Coming back after all these years
Ratta-tat-tat-tat-tat
And thats the way it is
[Chorus]
Unconditional
Love
[Verse 1: 2pac]
You'll always be in my heart with unconditional love
Come listen to my truest stories
My truest feelings on my peers doin years beyond drug dealin
How many caskets can we witness
Before we see it's hard to live this life without God
So we must ask forgiveness
Ask mama why I got deserve to die
Witness the tears fallin free from my eyes before she could reply
So we were born without a silver spoon
My broken down TV showed cartoons in my livin room (hey)
One day I hope to make it
A player in this game
Mama don't cry
As long as we try maybe things change
Perhaps just a fantasy
A life where we don't need no welfare with shit for our family
Maybe it's me that caused it
The fightin and hurtin
In my room cryin because I didn't want to be a burden
Watch mama open up her arms to hug me
And I ain't worried about a damn thang
with Unconditional Love
[Chorus
1:]
This game with shit for your eyes to see
Though things change, the future's still inside of me
We must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark
So You will always be in my heart - with Unconditional Love
This game with lessons for your eyes to see
Though things change, the future's still inside of me
We must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark
So you will always be in my heart - with Unconditional Love
[Chorus:
repeat]
[Verse
2: 2pac]
Just got the message you been callin on me
Been out here hustlin on the streets from that jail I escaped
But you know
it's you and me-it's all g
We could never be -enemies
Cuz you been such a good friend to me
Where would I be without my dawgs
No wonder why when times get hard
Cuz it aint easy bein who we are
Driven by my ambitionz
Desire higher positionz
So I perceive to make g'z- Eternally
and my mission is to be more than just a rap musician
The elevation of tenation of rates
and if I could make them listen
Cuz then they won't be kneed
No longer stuck in greed
Time to plan -strategize-
My family's gotta eat
We work somethin outta nuthin
No pleasure in this sufferin neighborhood
It would be good if they cut out all the bustin
the liquor and the weed, the cussin
Sendin luv out to my block, the struggle never stops
[Chrous:
repeat]
[Verse
3: 2pac]
I'll probably never understand your ways
With every day I swear I hear you tryin to change your ways
While gettin paid at the same time
just had a baby with the same mind
Somethin inside says we die cuz these are strange times
How come I never made it
Maybe it's the way I played it in my heart
I know one day Im gonna be a star
My hopes and all my wishes, so many vivid pictures
And all the currency I never even get to see
This fast life don't sad us
Because after all the lights and screams
Nothin but my dreams matter
Hopin for better days
maybe a peaceful night
Baby don't cry cuz everythang gonna be alright
Just lay your head on my shoulder
Don't worry bout a thang baby gyrl Im a soldier
Never treated me bad no matter who I was
You still came with that -Unconditional Love
[Chorus: repeat till fade]
I Ain't Mad at Cha
Change, s**t,
I guess change is good for any of us
Whatever it take
for any of ya'll ni**as to get up out tha hood
s**t, I'm with ya
I ain't mad at cha
got nothin' but love for ya
do your thing boy
Yeah,
All the homies that I ain't talk to in awhile
I'm a send this out to y'all
know what I mean ?
Cuz, I ain't mad at cha
heard all of y'all
tearing up s**t out there
Kickin' up dust
givin' a mutha-f**k
Yeah, ni**as
Cuz, I ain't mad at cha
Now,
we where cnce two ni**as of the same kind
quick to holla at a hoochie with the same line
You were just a little smaller
but you still rolled
Got stressed the [?Wide Eight?]
and hit the hood stroll
remember when ya had a Jerry Curl ?
Didn't quite learn
On the block
With ya glock
trippin' of Sherm
Collect calls to the tip
Sayin' how ya changed
Oh you a Muslim now
No more dope game
Heard you might be coming home
Just got bail
wanna go to the Mosque
Don't wanna chase tail
I seems I lost my little homie
He's a changed man
Hit the penn
Now, no sinnin' is the game plan
When I talk about money
All you see is the struggle
When I tell ya, I'm livin' large
you tell me, its trouble
Congratulation on the wedding
I hope your wife know
She got a playa for life
And that's no bulls**tin'
I know we grew apart
You probably don't remember
I usta fiend for your sister
But never went up in her
And I can see us after school
We'd bomb on the first mutha-f**ka
with tha wrong s**t on
And now, the whole s**ts changed
and we don't even kick it
got a big money scheme
And you ain't even with it
Knew in my heart
You were the same mutha-f**ka bad
Go toe to toe when it's time to roll
You got a brothas back
And I can't even trip
cause i'm just laughin' at ya
You tryin' hard to maintain
And go ahead
Cuz, I ain't mad at cha
Chorus
-- Danny boy
oooowwwwww
I ain't Mad at Cha
(I ain't Mad at Cha)
I ain't Mad at Cha
We
used to be like distant couzins
fightin', playin' dozins
whole nieghborhood buzzin'
Knowin' that we was wasn't
Usta catch us on the roof
or behind the stairs
I'm gettin' blitz
remincin'
On all the time we shared
Beside
Bumpin' n' Grindin'
Was nothin' on our mind
In time we learned
to live a life of crime
Rewind us back
To a time
Was much to young, to know
I caught a felony
lovin' the way the guns blow
And even thou we seperated
You said that you wait
Don't give nobody no coochie
While I'll be locked up state
I Kiss my mama good bye
Wipe, the tears from her lonely eyes
Said, that I'll return
But I gotta fight
The bi**h that ride
Don't shed a tear
cuz, mama I ain't happy here
I'm through trails
and no more smiles
for a couple a years
They got me goin' mad
I'm knocking brothas on their backs
in my cell
Thinkin' hell
I know one day I'll be back
As soon as I touch down
I told my girl i'll be there
so prepare
to get f**ked down
The homies wanna kick it
But I'm just laughin' at ya
Cuz, you is a down a*s bi**h
and I ain't mad at cha
Chorus
-- Danny boy
I ain't
Mad at Cha
(I ain't Mad at Cha)
I ain't Mad at Cha
(but your a down a*s bi**h, and I ain't Mad at Cha)
Well
guess who's moving up ?
this ni**as ballin' now
bi**hes be callin' to get it
Hookers keep fallin' down
He went from nothin' to alot
Ten Karets the spot
He went from a nobody ni**a
to the big man on the block
He's Mister local celebrity
Addicted to move a key
most hated by enemy
Escaping the luxury
See, first you was our ni**a
But you made it
So the choice is made
Now we gotta slay you
while you faded
In the younger days
So full of pain while the weapons blaze
Gettin' so high off the bomb
Hopin' we can make it
To the better dayz
Cuz, crime pays
And in time
You'll find a rhyme
That'll blaze you'll feel the fire
from the ni**as in my younger dayz
So many changed on me
So many tried to plot
that I keep a glock
beside my Haaand
When will it stop ?
'Till god return me to my essence
Cuz, even as a adolecents
I refuse to be a convelecent
So many questions,
And they ask me if i'm still down
I moved up out of the ghetto
So I ain't real now ?
They got so much to say
But I'm just laughin' at ya
You ni**as just don't know
But I ain't mad at cha
Chorus
-- Danny boy
oooowwwwww
I ain't Mad at Cha
(I ain't Mad at Cha)
I ain't Mad at Cha
(Hell naw, I ain't mad at Cha)
I ain't Mad at Cha
(and I ain't Mad at Cha)
I ain't Mad at Cha
(I ain't Mad at Cha)
I ain't Mad at Cha
nooooo
I ain't Mad at Chaaaaahhhhh
All
About U
You
probably crooked as the last trick
Women like it how I got my ass caught up with this bad bitch
Thinking I had her but she had me in the long run
Its just my luck I'm stuck f**kin with wrong one, UHHH
Wise decisions based on lies we living
Skandalous times is games like my religion
You could be rolling with a thug
Instead you with this weak scrub
Looking for some love.
In every club I see you standing like you want it
Well baby if yah got it better flaunt it
Let the liquor help you get up on it
I'm still tipsy from last night
Bumpin' in walls as I pause, addicted to the fast life
I try to hollar but you say you taken
Sayin' you ain't impressed with the money I'm makin'
Guess its true what they telling me
Fresh out of jail lights hell for a black celebrity
So thats the reason why I call
And maybe you with it
Fantansies of the sweatin.
Can I hit it? (Ha Ha)
Addicted to the things you do
Its still true what I'm saying Boo
cuz this is All About U
Chorus
2X
Every other city we go
Every other video
[its all about u]
No matter where I go
I see the same hoe
I'll make a promise if yah go with me
Just let me know, I'll have you hollaring
My name out before I leave
Nobody loves me I'm a thug ni**a
I only hang out with the criminals and the drug dealers
I love ni**as
Be coming from the same place
Witness me hollar at a hoochie, see how quick the game takes
How can I tell her I'm a playa
And I don't even care
Creep though
Weed smokes into the air
Everywhere I go, its all about the crooked hoes
waiting for ni**as at the end of every show
I just seened yah in my friends video
Never put you on my friends so here we go
Follow the leader and peep the drama that I'm going through
It's all about U
Chorus
2X
Is
you sick from the d**k or is it the flu
It ain't about you or your bitch ass crew
Every other city we go and every video
Explain to a ni**a why I see the same s**tty ho.
You think it's all about you?
Well, boo, I gets down like Dru and my nasty new ni**as, too.
You couldn't hold me back.
It'll take a fatter track, a lyrical attack,
Or perhaps it was a visual bluff.
When I started to snaps all your ?
Straight in control.
Phaser full(?)
Why hold a cold stroll?
Coldest set.
I told you I'm as gold
And that's gold diggin.
Cold diggin a ?
I slide in easily.
Try a grizzly.
Sluts know the cuts.
I came to f**k.
Try skeezin me.
Runnin up in this.
It's like ? when I bring ya the most.
I f**k a bitch from the West coast to every other country.
Chorus
repeated
(Spoken
by Snoop)
I'm tellin ya.
It's the same ol' shit.
I mean, goddamn, you know what I'm sayin?
I sitin back watchin Montell Jordan video,
I see the same bitch that was in the homeboy Nate video.
Then I flip the channel.
I'm checkin out the my homeboy Tupac video.
I see the same bitch that was in my video.
Know what I'm sayin?
And then, you know what I'm sayin,
To make that even more f**ked up,
I'm watchin Million Man March
And I see the same bitch on the Million Man March
That was in the homeboy Warren G video.
I mean, damn, everywhere I look,
Everywhere I go I see the same ho.
Don't get mad, I'm only bein real.
Yeah.
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