Tupac: Resurrection

Going crazy because I'm in a dirty party, no security, 642 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,360 lights out, drinking, hella drunk. Drunk with everybody else. 643 00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:13,450 But that's what kept my sanity, kept me right, kept me going. 644 00:41:13,650 --> 00:41:17,230 My fans know that I'm real. My fans go to jail just like me. 645 00:41:17,420 --> 00:41:20,270 They understand me. Half my fans are white. 646 00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:23,110 The white fans listen as much as the black fans. 647 00:41:23,310 --> 00:41:26,820 The ones that have approached me have been genuine fans. 648 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:31,010 These people will have jobs in the future and will hire my family. 649 00:41:32,140 --> 00:41:35,270 Get down, man! 650 00:41:37,290 --> 00:41:41,550 But many of my fans don't have ID. Some have jobs, some don't. 651 00:41:41,740 --> 00:41:44,330 Some are on welfare, you know? Some are not. 652 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,150 Some are rich and some are poor, 653 00:41:46,350 --> 00:41:50,950 but they all share that hopeless feeling. I got the underdogs on my side. 654 00:41:51,150 --> 00:41:54,410 Body bags of adversaries That I had to bury 655 00:41:54,600 --> 00:42:00,650 I'm almost more in awe of the people in awe of me than they are of me. 656 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,640 Outlaw, outlaw, outlaw 657 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,350 Everybody just be screaming, and I get uncomfortable. 658 00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:11,550 It's similar to a deer caught in the headlights. 659 00:42:11,750 --> 00:42:15,880 It's like a battle to find the right words to say at the right time. 660 00:42:18,790 --> 00:42:20,960 I live Thug Life And let the money come to me 661 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,680 Because they could never take The game from a young G 662 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,160 I'm getting money 663 00:42:25,350 --> 00:42:29,000 It was cool. I got to speak to young black males all over the country 664 00:42:29,190 --> 00:42:32,320 about this new idea called "Thug Life"... 665 00:42:33,190 --> 00:42:34,950 ...which is a new kind of Black Power. 666 00:42:35,140 --> 00:42:37,310 When I say, "Thug Life", I mean that shit 667 00:42:37,510 --> 00:42:40,090 because these white folks see us as thugs. 668 00:38:24,290 --> 00:42:44,030 I don't care if you think you a lawyer, a man, an African-American. 669 00:42:44,230 --> 00:42:46,370 If you whatever the fuck you think you are, 670 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,770 we thugs and niggas to these motherfuckers! 671 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,520 Until we own some shit, I'll call it like it is. 672 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:53,980 How you gonna be a man and we starving? 673 00:42:54,180 --> 00:42:55,940 Walk about five different houses, 674 00:42:56,130 --> 00:42:59,060 there ain't a man in either one of them motherfuckers. 675 00:42:59,270 --> 00:43:02,270 How we gonna be African-Americans if we all need a gun? 676 00:43:02,470 --> 00:43:05,120 We thugs and niggas until we set this shit right. 677 00:43:05,310 --> 00:43:07,100 Trust me when I tell you that shit. 678 00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:10,810 Young black males identify with Thug Life, but I couldn't handle it. 679 00:43:11,010 --> 00:43:13,310 I could handle it, but not right away. 680 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:16,440 - Mr. Shakur, can we get a comment? - Hell, no. Thug Life. 681 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,230 - Pardon me? - Thug Life. That's my comment. 682 00:43:19,420 --> 00:43:21,840 What's that mean? I don't understand. 683 00:43:23,420 --> 00:43:25,310 - What did happen? - Thug Life. 684 00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:30,390 Imagine you have 14,000 people ready to do whatever you want. 685 00:43:30,590 --> 00:43:35,890 You have, all over the country, people waiting to hear what you wanna do. 686 00:43:37,180 --> 00:43:41,780 I got people in the penitentiary, bigtime OG criminals, calling me, 687 00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:44,980 telling me they want me to lead their movement. 688 00:43:45,180 --> 00:43:47,390 I mean, I'm gonna have a problem. 689 00:43:49,340 --> 00:43:51,480 So they told me to watch my language. 690 00:43:52,730 --> 00:43:54,770 Fuck that. 691 00:43:55,450 --> 00:43:59,510 I'm gonna have a small identity crisis. I felt like, "I got every man in America 692 00:43:59,710 --> 00:44:03,350 "who wants to take orders from me, who wants to know what I wanna do." 693 00:44:03,550 --> 00:44:06,330 Holler if you hear me Pump, pump if you're pissed 694 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,260 Wants to know my plan for young black males. That makes me scared. 695 00:44:10,460 --> 00:44:12,400 My homeys in the back streets The black streets 696 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,020 They fear me when they rolling In they phat jeeps 697 00:44:15,230 --> 00:44:17,050 This ain't just a rap song A black song 698 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:20,340 Telling my brothers, get they strap on A