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Tupac: I got shot.

I always felt like I'd be shot.

Somebody was trying
to do me some harm

because a lot of people don't like me.

But I didn't think it was gonna happen
at that particular moment.

I'm surprised, but I'm happy.

I believe that, you know,
this is all in god's hands.

And I'm very appreciative to god
for everything I've gotten to do.

But also, about death, we look at
death from the selfish side, like:

"That guy died. Oh, it's so sad."
Why is it sad?

He's away from all of this
bad stuff that's here on earth.

I mean, at the worst, he's just
somewhere quiet, no nothing.

At best, he's an angel...
Or he's a spirit somewhere.

What is so bad about that?

Throughout my life, I just wanted
to be like an angel for god,

do something
where I could be of some help.

And I can do that.
I mean, I'm an artist.

It's not like I have to
tell the truth. I have to tell a story

and reach you and get
some kind of feeling from you.

And then try to get the moral across.

So this is my story.

A story about ambition,
violence, redemption and love.

In my life, I was different things
for different people.

What's up, nigga?

Don't fuck around with real gs
quick to snatch your ugly ass

- off the streets
- So fuck peace

I let them niggas know
it's on for life

so let the West Side ride tonight

bad boy murdered on wax and killed

- fuck with me you'll get your...
- Caps peeled

yeah, my niggas say...

Some people say
I was a thug and a gangsta.

Other people remember me
as a poet and a born leader.

But I'm saying to you
measure a man by his actions fully,

through his whole life,
from the beginning to the end.

Everybody's past
is what made their future.

It's, like, about destiny.

Speak, drums tell the real story

my mother was a black panther,

and she was really involved
in the movement.

Crowd: Power! Man: Power!

Man: Power to the people!
Crowd: Power to the people!

You know, just black people bettering
themselves and things like that.

She had a high position in the
panther party, which was unheard of,

because there was sexism,
even in the panthers.

All of my roots
to the struggle are real deep.

I was named after this inca chief
from south America

whose name was Tupac amaru.
And I think the tribal breakdown

means, like, intelligent warrior,
something like that. He's a deep dude.

If I go to south America,
they're gonna love me.

My stepfather at the time,
mutulu shakur,

he was also, like,
a well-known revolutionary.

And then my godfather,
Geronimo Pratt,

had a top official rank position
with the panthers on the west coast.

You can jail a revolutionary,
but you can't jail a revolution.

I think that my mother,
like Fred Hampton, Mark Clark,

Harriet tubman, they felt
like they were laying tracks

for a generation to come.

Come in, little brothers, sisters.

Y'all sit down
and get something to eat.

There was always
white people around helping out.

But still, you know, there's racism.

So when the panthers hit,
the government panicked.

And they felt like the panthers were
detrimental to American society.

Remember, this country had
a man named j. Edgar hoover,

whose job it was to destroy

the credibility of any black man
coming up.

That's what they did to the panthers.

Power to the people.

The government raided every
panther's house, especially the ones

who they felt like could do
the most damage as an orator.

So they just burst in and put a gun
to my mother's head and said:

"Don't move. You're under arrest."

They treated her
like less than human.

My mother was pregnant
with me while she was in prison.

She was her own attorney,
never been to law school.

She was facing 300
and something odd years.

One black woman,
pregnant, beat the case.

That just goes to show you
the strength of a black woman

and the strength of the oppressed.

And a month after she got out
of prison, she gave birth to me.

So I was cultivated in prison.
My embryo was in prison.

When I was a little baby, I remember
that one moment of calm peace,

and three minutes after that,
it was on.

I rebelled against my mother
because she was in the movement

and we never spent time together. She
was speaking and going to colleges.

I used to feel like she cared more
about the people than her people.

And then after that was over,
it was more time spent with me,

and we were like, "you're my mother."
She was like, "you're my son."

Then she was really close
with me and really strict, almost.

My mother is totally brilliant,
totally understanding and caring.

And she's human. I mean, she'll be
wrong a lot, but we can talk about it.

She taught me how
to be community-oriented,

and to analyze society.

Me and my sister grew up good, and
we have good minds and everything.

But we just didn't have money.

Poverty is...

It's no joke. If there was no money
and everything depended

on your moral standards
and the way you treated people,

we'd be millionaires. We'd be rich.

But, since it's not like that,
then we're stone-broke.

I can't always have what I want
or things that I think I need.

Poverty, if I hated anything,
it would be that.

You and me were born
and raised in Harlem.

And every time you put it down,
you're not only putting us down,

but mama and papa.

Tupac: My real father was
a black panther,

but when I was growing up, I never
knew who my father was for sure.

My stepfather was a gangster,
a straight-up street hustler.

My mom had a kid,
he didn't even care.

He's like, "that's my son,"
took care of me, gave me money.

He was a criminal too,
out doing his thing.

So he only came,
brought me money and then left.

It's okay to go to Harlem

and celebrate your birthday
with your friends,

but I don't think
we would really fit in.

I hate saying this because whites
love hearing blacks talk about this.

I know for a fact that,
had I had a father,

I'd have had some discipline,
I'd have had 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.

When I was young,
I was quiet, withdrawn.

I read a lot. I wrote poetry.
I kept a diary.

I watched TV all the time.
I stayed in front of the television.

And I could see all these people
out there in this pretend world.

And I knew I could be
part of it if I pretended too.

The way Arnold looked
on diff'rent strokes,

I used to like the lifestyle,
the way he used to live.

So early on,
I just watched and emulated.

I thought if I can be an actor
and act like those characters,

I could have some of their joy.

Oh, thank you, Mr. d!

If I could act like I had a big
family, I wouldn't feel as lonely.

My first acting job
was at the Apollo theater

when Jesse Jackson
was running for president in 1984.

It was a fundraiser,
and I was a little kid.

Travis, from raisin in the sun.
When the curtain went up,

I just caught that bug
that everybody talks about.

I was like, "whoa, this is it."

It was better than sex and anything,
money, everything. It was like, "whoa,

"I want this."

We moved out of New York
because my mother lost her job.

We were, like, stranded.

So we moved to Baltimore...

Which was total ignorance town
to me.

I mean, Baltimore has the highest rate

of blacks killing blacks
in the country.

Then I auditioned for the Baltimore
school of performing arts.

Then I started
to have good-luck times.

Parents are the same
no matter time nor place

they don't understand that us kids
are gonna make some mistakes

so to you, all the kids all across
the land, there's no need to argue

parents just don't understand

I spent three years in Baltimore,
high-school years. I made friends,

like Jon Cole and Jada pinkett.

You should've seen
this girl's bodily dimensions

I honked my horn to get her attention
she said, "was that for me?"

I said, "yeah" she said, "why?"

I said, "come on and take a ride
with a hell of a guy”

Tupac: I loved my classes.
We were exposed to everything.

You know, theater, ballet...

Listening to different types
of music,

songs that became
a soundtrack to my life.

But in my homeboys' high school,
it's not like that.

They don't have trips
to go see this Broadway play,

they don't read things we read.
They didn't know when I was like:

"Yo, Shakespeare's dope." They don't
have the same experiences we had.

Then I started thinking
the art school I went to

was mostly for white kids
and rich minorities.

I started going, "I would have
been totally different

"had I not been exposed to this."

I was living in the ghetto.
We didn't have lights and electricity.

- We was about to get evicted.
- We want home!

We want heat! We want lights!

We want something
to do for our children!

I thought, "we're not being taught
to deal with the world as it is."

The rich should live
like the poor,

the poor should live like the rich.
They should change every week.

The president stirred up
a hornets' nest earlier this week

when he suggested
the problems of the hungry

came about because they were
uninformed about where to go for help.

How could Reagan live in a white
house, which has a lot of rooms,

and there be homelessness?
And he's talking about helping.

I don't believe that there is anyone

that is going hungry in America
simply by reason

of denial or lack of ability
to feed them.

It is by people not knowing
where or how to get this help.

Tupac: Why can't he take
people off the street

and put them in his white house?

Then he'll have people from the
streets to help him with his ideas.

Not helpless! Homeless! Not helpless!

Tupac: They haven't been homeless
forever. They've done things in society.

The white house would be tainted
because he doesn't want to get dirty.

Tupac: Growing up in America,
I loved my childhood,

but I hated growing up poor.

We live in hell. We live in
the gutter. We live in a war zone.

We've got us stacked up 80-deep
in one building.

When you get out your house,
you're strapped to protect yourself.

Tupac: The same crime element
that white people are scared of

black people are scared of.

While they waiting for legislation
to pass, we next door to the killer.

All them killers they let out,
they're in that building.

Just because we black,
we get along with the killers?

What is that?
We need protection too.

Tupac: Then I came to California
to escape that violence.

Come to marin city,
and there's even more poverty.

I was starting to see the one thing
we have in common

as black people,
is we share that poverty.

I made it to where I had knowledge
this wasn't just me.

It was a bigger picture.
It was my people getting dogged.

It wasn't just my family.
It was all of us.

Moving to Baltimore and Oakland
and marin and New York,

and the poverty helped me
to relate to everybody's struggle.

Don't get the wrong idea.
I feel like I'm being gloomy.

I don't mean just to be like,
"damn it, it's bad out there."

I still try to be positive.

I know that good things
are gonna come for me.

Woman: Where you go to school?
Man: Are you rolling?

Man 2: Yeah, rolling.
Man: Go ahead, that's okay.

You dressed right for it.

Woman: He said he's been a little
chilly, so this is good for him.

- Somebody will enjoy the heat in here.
- Anytime.

Okay. My name is Tupac shakur,
and I attend tamalpais high school.

And I'm 17 years old.

Tupac: Oh, my god,
I got the phattest déja vu.

I chased girls and bought the car
and loud music,

but I like to think of myself
as really being socially aware.

Kept my history a mystery
but now I see

the American dream
wasn't meant for me

'cause lady Liberty's a hypocrite
she lied to me

promised me freedom, education
equality

I think there should be
a class on drugs.

There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.

There should be a class
on police brutality.

There should be a class on apartheid.

There should be a class
on why people are hungry.

But there are not.
There are classes on gym.

Physical education.
Let's learn volleyball.

Fathers of this country
never cared for me

they kept my ancestors
shackled up in slavery

and uncle Sam never did
a damn thing for me

except lie about the facts
in my history

now I'm sitting here mad
because I'm unemployed

but the government's glad
because they enjoy

when my people are down
so they can screw us around

time to change the government now
no more

how do you think
you're most like your mom?

I'm most like my mom because
I'm arrogant. Totally arrogant.

You should see us when we get
in our attitude moods.

We get in our tiffs and everything,
but it's good.

My mom's my homey,
but we went through our stages,

where first we was mother and son,

then it was like drill sergeant
and cadet.

Then it was like dictator,
little country.

Then I moved out,
and I was on my own.

I was broke, nowhere to stay.

I smoked weed.
I hung out with the drug dealers,

pimps and the criminals.

They were the only people
that cared about me.

And I needed a father.
I needed a male influence,

and these were the males.

You could see where I spent time
in the streets when you talk to me.

The words I say don't come
from a mother's or father's mouth.

They come from a pimp's mouth

or a prostitute
or a hustler or drug dealer.

To me, these were my role models.

My mom was lost at that particular
moment. She was addicted to crack.

It was hard. It was hard
because she was my hero.

Not long ago in Oakland, California,

I was asked by a group of children
what to do if they were offered drugs.

And I answered, "just say no."

I was broke. I didn't have enough
credits to graduate, so I dropped out.

I said, "I gotta get paid.
I gotta make a living."

I started selling drugs
for maybe two weeks.

The dude was like, "give me my drugs
back," because I didn't know how.

The dope dealers used to look out
for me. They would give me money

and be like, "don't get involved with
this. Get out there, do your dream."

So they was like my sponsors.

My dream was
to make a living rapping.

Just to make music
that was coming from my heart.

When I first started rapping, I needed
the money, and I had to work.

Do the humpty hump
do the humpty hump

sexy baby

do the humpty hump
do the humpty hump

that was me.

For me to get paid,
I had to go out in bikini briefs

and hop on top of this doll.

I was homeless.
That's what I had to do.

You have to work from one point
to go to another point.

I admire the work ethic.

Do the humpty hump
do the humpty hump

do the humpty hump
just watch me do the humpty hump

Tupac: Shock was responsible
for my success.

I'm the original two-tone,
big-nosed, skinny rapper.

Tupac: Shock g.

Leila introduced me to atron who
was managing digital underground.

He was like, "I'll send you to digital
underground. They're in the studio.

"Rap for shock g on the spot.
If he like you, I'll pick you up."

I walked in and rapped.

He was like, "good. You're in."
Boom, boom. "See you later."

And I left, walked out
of there like, "dang."

Shock was like, "come on the road.
Be my roadie. It ain't glamorous.

"You'll be working, meeting people.”
I said, "cool."

Off the road, he said, "I'm gonna pay
you and let you do same song."

I did same song.
Ever since, it's been on.

- Tupac, rock this
- I clown around when I hang

around with the underground

girls who used to frown
say I'm down when I come around

gas me and when they pass me
they used to diss me

harass me but now they ask me
if they can kiss me

get some fame, people change
wanna live their life high

same song, can't go wrong
if I play the nice guy

claiming fame must have changed
now that we became strong

I remain, still the same
because it's the same song

I look back
with the greatest fondness.

Those were some of the best times.

Watch this one.

I'm gonna fuck you up.
I'm gonna fuck you up.

Dj Mark, “the 45 king"
this is your thing

check out how we swing
look at my ding-a-ling

and know that I am the king
a lyrical lunatic

I can rap slow or quick
about fishing or politics

it don't matter because girls
be on your dick

Tupac: Atron had been shopping
my demo tape as a solo album.

All of a sudden,
interscope got in touch with us,

and I was told that Ted field,

this millionaire, multimillionaire,
his daughter had heard my demo,

and she liked it. So he was like,
"that's how I picked you."

And I was like,
"well, tell your daughter thanks."

You know you gotta love
the sound, it's from the rebel

the rebel of the underground

so I went from being unknown
to now having a platinum record.

2pacalypse now is a story of a young
black male, from track one to 13,

whether it be about teenage pregnancy,
police brutality or poverty.

Also, I tell my own personal problems.

All my songs deal with the pain
that I've felt from my childhood.

That's what makes me do what I do.

My inspiration
for writing music is, like,

Don mclean when he did Vincent,

Lorraine hansberry
with raisin in the sun,

Shakespeare when he does his things.

Like deep stories, you know,
like raw human needs.

I just try to speak about things
that affect me and our community.

Sometimes I'm the watcher
and sometimes the participant.

Sometimes it's just allegories
or fables that have a moral

or theme,
like the ghetto lifestyle.

Brenda's belly's getting bigger
but no one seems to notice

any change in her figure
she's 12 years old

and she's having a baby
in love with the molester

who's sexing her crazy

she thinks that he'll be
with her forever

and dreams of a world
where the two of them are together

whatever

I seen that, the crack babies,
what we had to go through,

losing everything and being poor
and getting beat down.

Being the person I am, I said,
"no, I'm changing this."

I'm trying to think of a good analogy.

It's like you've
got the Vietnam war, right?

And just because the reporters
show us pictures at home

of the vietham war, that's what made
the Vietnam war end when it did,

or the shit probably
would have lasted longer.

If no one knew
exactly what was going on,

we just thought they were just dying
valiantly, in some beautiful way.

But because we saw the horror, that's
what made us stop the Vietnam war.

I thought, "that's what I'l
do as an artist, as a rapper.

"I'm gonna show the graphic details
of what I see

“in my community,
and hopefully they'll stop it, quit."

Hello, I'm Tanya hart,
and welcome to our show.

My guest today has experienced

a truly horrendous life
to just be 20 years old.

His family portrait could well be
a poster for America's most wanted.

His lyrics are controversial but also
a reality of life as he has seen it.

Tupac: My ear is to the streets.

I represent 20 years
on this planet earth

and what I've seen.
This is my report.

It's like my battle cry to America.

They got me trapped

uh-uh, they can't keep
the black man down

they got me trapped

no, they can't keep
the black man down

in my album, the number one enemy
is the crooked police officer.

They got me trapped
can barely walk the city streets

without a cop har-asking me
searching me then asking my identity

and the ironic thing
is that it never happened to me.

I was speaking
from the stories of my peers.

Cuffed up, throw me on the concrete
coppers try to kill me

I mean, I said all of these things,
and then it happened to me.

I had no record, all my life, no
police record, until I made a record.

As my video was debuting on mtv,
I was behind bars,

getting beat up
by the police department.

Good morning.
My name is John burris,

and I am here today with my client,
Tupac amaru shakur,

as well as other members of the, uh,
digital underground, uh, rap group

and some members of the
digital, uh, underground, uh, rap group,

a combination
of the various, um, groups.

Tupac: Basically, I walked across
the street at 17th and Broadway.

The police officers stopped me on
the sidewalk and asked to see my ID.

They sweated me about my name.
The officers said:

"You have to learn your place."

They were charging me
with jaywalking.

I was riffing, arguing about why would
they charge me with a petty crime.

I kept yelling, asking them
to give me my citation and let me go.

Next thing I know, my face
was being buried into the concrete,

and I was laying facedown
in the gutter,

waking up
from being unconscious in cuffs

with blood on my face. And I'm going
to jail for resisting arrest.

That's harassment to me,

that I have to be stopped
in the street and checked,

like we're in South Africa
and asked for my ID.

Officer boyavich repeatedly
slammed my face into the floor,

while Rogers put the cuffs on.
That's not called for, for jaywalking.

I got a ten-million-dollar lawsuit.
They said they would settle,

but nobody cared.
That wasn't blew up all over the news.

They didn't see me on TV with my eye
and head busted. There are pictures.

In Oakland?
Yes. You don't see them.

You see pictures of Tupac
coming out of jail in cuffs.

You don't see pictures of police,
beating my brains in.

You don't see that.
But I see that. That's what I see.

We have seen what they did
to Rodney king.

The whole world has seen
what happened to Rodney king.

Baby, let me show you
what they did to Tupac shakur.

All that movie, that didn't
mean nothing to opd.

I was still an n-i-g-g-a,
and they proved it.

And if you can see this,
Mr. cameraman,

this is scars
I'll go to my grave with.

I can see it.

These are
"learn to be a nigger" scars.

- You're suing them?
- For ten mil.

What else can I do? See what happens.
You know how that go.

Rodney king's still fighting for his,
and they got it on tape.

They got it on tape.

One day I'm gonna bust
blow up on this society

why did you lie to me?
I couldn't find a trace of equality

- they settled with me.
- Tabitha Soren: They did?

They gave me 42,000.
I had to pay my lawyer a whole bunch

and bought a car.

I settled
because I was tired of court.

I could have won more,
but I was tired of going to court.

I felt like any dollar from any police
department was good money.

- So you got $42,000 for jaywalking?
- That's a hell of a ticket.

After that case,
people perceived me as a menace.

I've had chief of police,
vice president,

the leader of the
black national women's council...

Everybody against me. Why? Why me?

I have not brought violence to you. I
have not brought thug life to America.

I didn't create thug life.
I diagnosed it.

What's up?

When I did juice,
my image got even more scary.

Everything starts from now.

We all go down
unless we stay together.

No one's above the crew.
You know that shit.

You're crazy, man.

When I auditioned for juice,
that was another good-luck time.

It was my first big part, and I just
took everything and internalized it.

You're right.

I am crazy.

But you know what else?

I don't give a fuck.

Bishop is a psychopath,
but more true to his character,

bishop is a lonely,
misguided, young kid.

His heroes are James cagney
and scarface, those kind of guys.

- Made if, ma. Top of the world.
- "Made it, ma. Top of the world."

Tupac: Know what I'm saying, "shoot them
up, go out in a Blaze" type gangsters.

If you've gotta go out,
that's how you go out.

That motherfucker took his destiny
in his own hands.

Tupac: When I get a part,
at first I just try to find out,

how does this character feel?

Like, I make the person up in my mind.

What he looks like,
try to put a face to him.

Even though it's my face, I'll give
him a walk and give him an attitude.

All you have to do
is relate to your character.

Even away from the set I just let
myself go. I just stopped caring.

I stopped worrying
about what people thought

and started staring people down more.
I really just got into the part.

- Yo, bishop, man, give me the piece.
- No.

No? What the hell you mean, no?
Give me the gun.

I mean I'm holding onto this
till I say so.

I'm not playing.

Oh, really?

Tupac: When I'm playing a character,
I'm really that character.

There's nothing fake.

Oh, shit!

Tupac: I just took everything
and internalized it.

Tell us about your character.
I know you're the villain.

Yo, I play me,
straight ruthless villain,

straight killer,
straight take no sszzz-s.

You know what I'm saying?
Straight popping partners.

Yo, Tupac will go ahead
and rock this.

Juice helped me
because it gave me that trust.

It let me trust my instincts.

I was confident about what I could do
and what it would look like afterward.

My next guest has not only become one
of today's most talented new stars,

but he's becoming one of today's
most talked about new stars.

Please welcome Tupac shakur.

Tupac: I know what I feel like when
I'm in the zone, when I'm there.

So I was just trying
to get that feeling.

Why are you always so mad?

The exciting performance in the film
is the one of Tupac shakur.

What do you want from me?

I think you're kind of fly. Shit.

We could start
with your phone number.

This is a 22-year-old young actor,
Tupac shakur.

He's been in the film juice,
and I hope to see him again soon.

Tupac: When I was doing poetic justice,

I had to tone myself down
a lot to be lucky.

Lucky is doing the opposite of bishop.
He's working, responsible,

deliberate about things,
caring for his daughter.

I'm a gemini, so I got both sides.

See, I get a feeling
there are two tupacs.

See, I mean, you're this kind,
sensitive, friendly guy,

yet you're involved
in so much controversy.

I'm talking about Tupac shakur,
who had an incident

with a limo driver
during a taping of in living color.

Tupac shakur is free on bond tonight

after his arrest
this weekend in Atlanta.

The 22-year-old singer and actor
was charged with shooting

two off-duty police officers.

The wounds were not serious.

Newscaster: The fight that led
to the shooting in marin city

reportedly broke out in this field
on Saturday night.

Marin festival usa was in full swing.

Neighbors say Tupac should not
have let anyone bring a gun here.

Since he got big,
they claim he's changed.

That change has broken some hearts.

Tupac was homeless.
He's from here. We helped him out.

Tupac: Over my career,
I got arrested, like, 12 times,

some by mistake, some fate
and some unwarranted.

But for whatever reason, I got
to see police more than I wanted to.

In some of my cases,
they dropped the charges.

But because of trouble
in these court cases,

it was hard at that point
for me to be trying to do a movie.

I wasn't professional.
I think I was talented,

but I didn't have the concentration.
And I was immature,

and my ego was out of control.

Harry connick ain't got nothing on me.
Check it.

I had to get humble again
before I could do this.

More hot water may await Tupac,

based on what he tells
the new issue of the source

about costarring with Janet Jackson
in her film debut, poetic justice.

Among other complaints,

Tupac says Janet's people
asked him to take an aids test

- before shooting a love scene.
- I don't know if it came from Janet,

but suddenly they wanted me to take
an aids test for this love scene.

I did not disagree if we were
really gonna make love.

I said, "if we can make love,
I'll take four aids tests."

But if I'm doing a love scene with her
just like somebody else did,

and they didn't take a test,
I'm not.

Not only am I not taking a test,
but get out of my trailer.

And they sent, like, four
different people to ask me.

First they sent the producer, then the
black dude, then John, then a girl.

It don't matter who you send,
I'm not taking one.

To me, it was just like an insult.
We had a good experience on the set.

You look like the type of guy to care.

What's the type?

Tupac: I thought I made a friend.

I thought,
"I know Janet Jackson for life."

When the movie was over, it was like,
"boop. This number has been changed."

And it was like a movie.

I mean, it was like the day
after the movie wrapped.

"I'm gonna call you." "All right."

"This number's been changed.”
I said, "oh, okay."

Still, when I see her again, I'd run
up and hug her. We was real cool.

I love women. I'm not gonna lie.

I love women with a passion.
I do. I do.

Sometimes I just wanna call prince
and be like, "can we hang?"

Because I love women
like he love women.

Hold on. I've been talking
to little girls all day.

Seeing somebody my age.
How you doing?

Fine, how you doing? Yourself?

I have ultra respect for women.
I like being around females,

I'm comfortable with them
on every level.

I don't get a predator thing going
when I'm around demure females.

Woman: Don't be shy.
Tupac: Y'all making me blush.

You got me blushing.

I'm not uncomfortable
around strong women.

- Sorry. I'm not enough.
- No, I'm looking you up and down.

On TV, they'll go,
"look how he looking at Tabitha."

Don't do that.

Tupac: Madonna is real nice. She's
a good person. She helped me a lot.

She was real cool,
like any one of my homeboys.

Jasmine guy, she helped me.
She's a good supporter.

Jada pinkett. Jada's my heart,
you know what I mean?

She will be my friend
for my whole life.

Well, I'll scoop you up later in life
if you ain't all shriveled up.

We'll be old together.

Be like ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Pic, you always
got a place in my heart.

Tupac: She can have my one heart,
my liver, my lungs, my kidneys,

my blood, marrow, all of that.

Keep your head up

ooh, child, things are gonna get easier

- keep your head up
- Ooh, child, things will get brighter

Tupac: My mother taught me to understand
women a lot more than my peers can.

When I was young,
I was surrounded by strong women.

My sister's the bomb.
She's my biggest critic.

She's real smart, funny as all hell.
She's real funny.

My mother was a matriarch.
If you raised by a woman,

you're gonna think like a woman.

And our game from a woman

I wonder why we fake
from our women

why we rape our women
do we hate our women?

I think it's time
to kill for our women

time to heal our women

be real to our women

but I'm not a woman.
I'm just a normal man.

To me, I'm the hardest man around,
the hardest nigga, because I'm real.

But I'm also very soft.

I'm very sensitive, but that's why I'm
so harsh, because I'm so sensitive.

And that's what I think
has made me successful and famous.

So sensitive.
Don't be so sensitive, Tupac.

- Well, basically...
- Bugaloo.

Woman: Bugaloo? Boogaloo?

Marlon wayans,
I am playing the role of bugaloo.

What is bugaloo?
Where did that name come from?

Some white guy's sitting there,

"what's a homeboy hip-hop name?
Bugaloo!"

"What are they calling each other
these days?"

Check it out - I get around

- what you mean you don't know?
- Round and round, round we go

I get around

the underground just don't stop
for ho's

I get around

Tupac: When I got famous,
I got famous friends.

Mickey Rourke was a good friend,
good person. He's really funny.

My memory of him is the night
he's arguing with carr, his wife.

He didn't know what to do. I was like,
"man, buy her some cristal.

"Cristal will make someone
forgive you, trust me."

They be like,
"what was we fighting about?"

He's like, "that's a good idea, 'pac.”
I was like, "he gotta be twice my age,

"and I'm giving him ideas."

Ain't no party like a thug life party
because a thug life party don't stop

Tupac: I always gave biggie
lot of props. The notorious b.I.G.

I thought at the time
he was my friend.

Mike Tyson, we used to kick it. He's
a real cool brother, a big brother.

The only difference in us
is that he's big and I'm small.

But I got the same heart he got.
I want to knock everybody out.

My brother, I'm telling you,
you were good.

- Woman: I enjoyed your performance.
- Appreciate it. Thank you very much.

I like that people come to me
and go, "you did a good job."

I was loving that somebody said,
"Tupac, you a great actor."

- I'm telling you, Tupac a real nigga.
- Tupac: Being famous gave me confidence.

Ed lover: Is Tupac a sexy motherfucker?
Tupac: The crowd gave me confidence.

Crowd: Go Tupac, go Tupac, go.
Ed lover: Let me hear you say:

- "Go thug life, go thug life, go."
- Crowd: Go thug life, go thug life, go.

That's what I wanna hear.

Now, I'm my own man.

I got you now! I got you now!

I put it down. I wanna get
into the head seat. Excel at it.

Do it one more time,
clear as possible.

Can we double it,
see what it sound like?

I'm a natural-born leader.

If not, everybody lose their jobs.
Everybody lose their jobs!

Back to servant.
Playing the drums in the corner.

But nobody could call me a sellout.
I'm not going for that.

I didn't want to change.

I loved that even though I was
with Janet Jackson in big movies,

I'll be up at the dirtiest
house party in the 'hood.

Damn, sweetheart
you got some thighs on you

now I can't wait to get you home
get you all alone in my bedroom

people could not believe it.
I used to thrive off that.

Being up in the party, and somebody
go, "oh, my god, that's Tupac."

Going crazy because I'm
in a dirty party, no security,

lights out, drinking, hella drunk.
Drunk with everybody else.

But that's what kept my sanity,
kept me right, kept me going.

My fans know that I'm real.
My fans go to jail just like me.

They understand me.
Half my fans are white.

The white fans listen
as much as the black fans.

The ones that have approached me
have been genuine fans.

These people will have jobs in
the future and will hire my family.

Get down, man!

But many of my fans don't have ID.
Some have jobs, some don't.

Some are on welfare, you know?
Some are not.

Some are rich and some are poor,

but they all share
that hopeless feeling.

I got the underdogs on my side.

Body bags of adversaries
that I had to bury

Tupac: I'm almost more in awe of the
people in awe of me than they are of me.

Crowd: Outlaw, outlaw, outlaw

Tupac: Everybody just be screaming,
and I get uncomfortable.

It's similar to a deer
caught in the headlights.

It's like a battle to find the right
words to say at the right time.

I live thug life
and let the money come to me

because they could never take
the game from a young g

I'm getting money

it was cool. I got to speak to young
black males all over the country

about this new idea
called "thug life"...

Which is a new kind
of black power.

When I say, "thug life",
I mean that shit

because these white folks
see us as thugs.

I don't care
if you think you a lawyer,

a man, an African-American.

If you whatever the fuck
you think you are,

we thugs and niggas
to these motherfuckers!

Until we own some shit,
I'll call it like it is.

How you gonna be a man
and we starving?

Walk about five different houses,

there ain't a man in either one
of them motherfuckers.

How we gonna be African-Americans
if we all need a gun?

We thugs and niggas
until we set this shit right.

Trust me when I tell you that shit.

Young black males identify with
thug life, but I couldn't handle it.

I could handle it, but not right away.

- Mr. shakur, can we get a comment?
- Hell, no. Thug life.

- Pardon me?
- Thug life. That's my comment.

What's that mean? I don't understand.

- What did happen?
- Thug life.

Tupac: Imagine you have 14,000 people
ready to do whatever you want.

You have, all over the country, people
waiting to hear what you wanna do.

I got people in the penitentiary,
bigtime og criminals, calling me,

telling me they want me
to lead their movement.

I mean, I'm gonna have a problem.

So they told me to watch my language.

Fuck that.

I'm gonna have
a small identity crisis.

I felt like,
"I got every man in America

"who wants to take orders from me,
who wants to know what I wanna do."

Holler if you hear me
pump, pump if you're pissed

wants to know my plan for young
black males. That makes me scared.

My homeys in the back streets
the black streets

they fear me when they rolling
in they phat jeeps

this ain't just a rap song
a black song

telling my brothers, get they strap on
and look for me in the struggle

hustling to the other brother's bubble
holler if you hear me

and I'm 22.

I was having concerts sold out,
white boys, Mexicans, blacks,

and they would do what I say.
I could tell them to turn in a circle,

and they would do it.
I was having love,

like, undeniable love,
and I was scared.

Holler if you hear me

I was scared, but so was America,
so was somebody else.

- I'm a liberal democrat.
- I'm a conservative republican,

but we both worry about
the society our children live in.

Tupac: But that makes me want
to rise to the occasion.

It makes me want
to give my whole life to it.

And I will give my whole life to
this plan that I have for thug life.

That's my new posse,
my new way of thinking.

That's how we rolling
in the nine-three, thug life.

By "thug", I mean, not criminal,
someone that beats you.

I mean, the underdog.

The person that had nothing
and succeeds is a thug

because he overcame all obstacles.

It has nothing to do
with the dictionary's version.

To me, thug is my pride, not being
someone that goes against the law,

not being someone that takes,
but being someone that has nothing,

and even though I have nothing and
no home to go to, my head is up high.

My chest is out. I walk tall.
I talk loud. I'm being strong.

I'm against racial,
ethnic entitlements.

I think they are un-American.

Tupac: I don't understand why America
doesn't get thug life.

America is thug life.

How is me saying,
"I don't give a fuck,"

different than Patrick Henry saying,
"give me Liberty or give me death"?

What makes my freedom
less worth fighting for than Bosnians

or whoever they wanna
fight for this year?

They should give money to the ghetto.

Even gangs can be positive.
It just has to be organized.

It has to steer away
from being self-destructive

to being self-productive.

I organized the ogs on the east
and west coasts in penitentiaries

to come up with
codes of ethics for criminals.

It's called the code of thug life.

It's a code, putting order
to the violence on the streets.

In watts, Compton,
Chicago, wherever.

People all over the country say,
"we go by this code.

"We're against attacks on people
not involved with the street gang,

"the drug trade
or the illegal business at all.

"All that kidnapping and shooting
drive-bys, we against that."

Thug life ain't just a bunch
of niggas going crazy.

We wanna patrol our streets.
So all we saying is,

if every motherfucker out here
right now gave up one dollar

to this thug life fund,
the money don't go to me,

it go to somebody
from y'all neighborhood,

and we do this shit every month.
I'll bring new rappers,

I'll bring snoop,
whoever y'all want.

I'll go snatch them niggas.

For that shit to happen,
we can't have violence,

and everybody gotta be down
for that shit.

We gonna start slowly but surely
taking our communities back.

Regulate our community. Organize.
Start taking care of our own.

We gotta start somewhere, and I don't
know about anything but this.

- What is the message, though?
- All the people you threw away,

the dope dealers, criminals, they will
be legit next to you in first class,

thanks to your boy.

You know those
little things for mice,

where they go through
and there's little blocks?

Well, society is like that.

They'll let you go as far as you want,
but when you ask too many questions

and you're ready to change,
boom, that block'll come.

Crowd: Is not all right.

There is no reason
for a record like this

to be published
by a responsible corporation.

Never before has there been
such a will to use music

to advertise
self-destructive violence.

It glorifies violence. It's creating
a culture of guns and rape.

Female reporter: Adding insult to
injury, she says, is rapper Tupac shakur

being nominated
for an naacp image award.

Tupac: I got the whole world fearing me,
and I ain't even started.

I don't have my plan,
and they're trying to stop me.

I challenge the view that those
who revel in violence and depravity,

on the screen or in the song,
bear no responsibility

when that spirit spreads
into our culture.

No disrespect to Bob dole.
He don't know what he talking about.

He's just talking.

Some card somebody gave him,
he's just reading off a card.

But he's cute, you know?
He's my grandfather.

- Tabitha Soren: Right.
- He's an old dude, talking mess.

You don't have to use
vile and ugly language.

Commentator: Wpgc in Washington, D.C.
dropped violent or demeaning lyrics.

Kace in Los Angeles followed suit.

You're yelling, "shoot!" In
a community that is crowded with guns.

Tupac: I'm not looking for approval
from the black community.

We are a part of it.

I'm a thug, and I rap about
the oppressed fighting back.

Yes, my raps are filled with rage.

You have to be logical. You know?
If I know that in this hotel room

they have food every day, and I'm
knocking on the door every day to eat,

and they open the door,
let me see the party,

let me see them
throwing salami all over,

I mean, just throwing food around,

but they're telling me
there's no food.

Every day, I'm standing outside
trying to sing my way in.

We are hungry, please let us in
we are hungry, please let us in

after about a week that song
is gonna change to:

We hungry, we need some food

after two, three weeks, it's like:

Give me the food
or I'm breaking down the door

after a year you're just like:

I'm picking the lock
coming through the door blasting

it's like, you hungry,
you reached your level.

We asked ten years ago.
We was asking with the panthers.

We was asking with them, the civil
rights movement. We was asking.

Those people that asked
are dead and in jail.

So now what do you think
we're gonna do? Ask?

I put my gun away and grab my ak
it's getting hectic, I can't call it

house full of alcoholics
now we're niggas under pressure

there's a bad part because
kids see that and mimic you.

I haven't figured that out yet.
But the positive side

is the kids who live in a house
where the mother is a crackhead,

he hears the rap. He's like,
"oh, that's every day.

"So I don't have to feel ashamed."
It cuts both ways.

To me, it's like, when I sing:

I live the thug life
baby, I'm hopeless

one person might hear that
and just like the way it sounds.

But I'm doing it for the kid

that lives a thug life
and feels like it's hopeless.

So when I say, "hopeless",

and when I say it like that,
it's like I reach him.

And even if, when I reach him,

it makes it look glorious to
the guy that doesn't live that life,

I can't help it. It's a fad.
He'll drop the thug life soon.

But for the person I tried to reach,

he'll pick it up,
and I'll be able to talk to him.

I try to be responsible,
but it's hard.

If you worry about what you're saying,
I get writer's block.

Kind of like, "ll can't say that.
That's too harsh. Can't say this."

I have to block it out and trust my
heart that I'm doing the right thing.

Pretty spit... I was spitting.

Chill out. Chill out.

That's my style. That's my new style.

- That's my new style.
- 'Pac, chill out.

That's my new style.

Hey, have a good summer.

Have a good summer, bitch!

But I'm not saying
I didn't make mistakes.

Like some of the things I said when
I was fighting the Hughes brothers.

I beat up the directors
to menace il society.

- All right, tell 'em why you did that.
- These chump, punk, slump...

- You'll be able to rebuttal to that.
- No, they better come now.

Check this out, they fired me
in a roundabout, punk, snitch way.

So I caught them on the streets
and beat they behinds.

I was a menace to the
Hughes brothers. It ain't over!

I still got more for you chumps!
I read what you said about me!

I'm gonna kick their ass!

Tupac: My big mouth.

Mind y'all business, I'll mind mine.
I do what I gotta do,

you do what you gotta do.
Long as I give you 12 tracks,

you give me my $12, and we even.
I don't gotta be a role model.

I don't gotta hold your hand.
I don't gotta do shit.

My big mouth.
I got a big mouth, can't help it.

I talk from my heart, I'm real.

We talked about

people in this business that you feel

don't have a love
for their own people.

We was talking about
spike Lee, arsenio hall,

Eddie Murphy and the rest of them.

I thought I was charming,
but I was immature.

I did things without thinking.

Michael Jackson, Randy Jackson,

Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul,
all of them.

She wants to not be black,
but sell to blacks.

I don't appreciate her going
out of her way to say she's not black.

My actions came before thought.
Things that I did, things I said.

So many things I wanna take back.

Eddie Murphy, with all that dough he's
making, hasn't done nothing for us.

- He does a lot of charity.
- Charity doesn't get to the ghetto.

Everybody knows that.

I was young and dumb.

Being mad at spike Lee
and all those people, all of that.

The thing I said of Quincy Jones,

he shouldn't mess
with white women.

I said I was sorry
personally for that.

I didn't think of how
it would hurt people.

I'm gonna catch y'all in traffic and
be the roughest nigga you ever seen.

That turned into
more legal problems.

Woman: The people truly believe that
Mr. shakur has shown no remorse

whatsoever for his action
in this case.

We view Mr. shakur's appearance
on yo! Mtv raps as bragging.

He was proud of what he did
and does not feel sorry.

I just want to say, judge,
that I have a great deal of remorse.

As far as I want you to treat
me different, I don't want that.

I just want the chance to make right
from all the bad things that I got.

I got things against me
and people that look up to me.

I don't want the last place
they see me to be jail.

Judge: I guess it's now time
for me to render the sentence.

I obviously find that the defendant
is a talented individual.

However, this court believes that
jail time is warranted with a battery

with some injury involved.

The defendant will serve 15 days
in the county jail.

I think the judge was fair.

I still don't feel like I got
the decision that I wanted,

but he was as fair as he could be.

Really, to my homeboys, I mean,

a fight is a fight,
battery is battery.

A two and a half minute problem
just cost me 15 days in jail,

and that was lenient.

But my most serious legal problems
came from women.

How I was acting with women.

The underground
just don't stop for ho's

I get around...

I will no longer sit passively,
allowing this degradation

to be continued by our children.

Tupac: I think we live
in a very sexist society,

and everybody's pointing
the finger at me.

When somebody asks me,
"do you exploit women?"

With her permission, I might
smack a girl on the butt in the video.

I might be drinking champagne,
but everything in moderation,

and everything with class.

Fingertips on the hips as I dip
gotta get a tight grip, don't slip

loose lips sink ships, it's a trip
I love the way she licks her lips

see me jocking, put a little twist
in her hips because I'm watching

I don't have fo always do a song
with the good woman.

I don't see women as all one thing.
I think all women are different.

You wonder why they call you bitch
you wonder why they call you bitch

we African-American women,
particularly,

are tired of being called ho's,
bitches and sluts by our children.

Dear Ms. delores Tucker
you keep stressing me

fucking with a motherfucking mind
I figured you wanted to know

why we call them ho's bitches

if I do something
that has a bad woman,

people go, "he hates women."

No, look. I don't think like that.

But there are definitely
a type of female,

label them a bitch, whose main thing
is to get what they can,

and they revel
in breaking a nigga's heart

and taking what he owns.

Shut the fuck up!

There's male bitches foo.

Women know there are bitches.
I don't know why they're surprised.

They know. They say it louder.

They think we say they're all bitches.
That's not what we're saying.

I give a holler
to my sisters on welfare

Tupac cares
and don't nobody else care

that's keep ya head up and get around.

I said, "I'm gonna write a song

about women like my mom,

"who represent a strong black woman."
I did that.

I'll rap about women I see daily.
That's get around.

If I just did keep ya head up,
it would make me seem more than I am,

but I'm just a normal man.

America, America

god shed his grace on thee

stop.

Man: I'm gonna close the door.

Tupac: Come on, Mr. cameraman.

This is some real private shit
that's about to happen, Mr. cameraman.

Bye.

Anyway, I'll let you hear the sounds.

Is there a double standard
for men being promiscuous?

Yeah, but we didn't start
that double standard.

- I'm not saying you did.
- And I'm not saying it's fair.

I'm saying this is how it is.

How can we rap about a world
that is not like that?

- This is how it is.
- Do you look down on male friends

if they're as promiscuous as women?

I don't look down on anybody
that's promiscuous.

I only look down on people
who don't control the situation.

If a girl sleeps with a lot of guys,
she's still my homegirl.

You're only a bitch,
not if you sleep with a lot of guys,

but if you're sleeping
with them for money.

- So you put a price on yourself.
- Because they have a nice car.

Guys, when they sleep around,
they do it for free.

At that time, a lot of girls,

they'd seen my face on TV so many
times that that's what they want,

they wanna be associated
with that person.

It's the fame that gets these people.
It's not me. It's the fame.

I've seen females look at me
when they didn't know who I was,

and I can see it, nothing.

Then as soon as
somebody whisper who I was,

it's this glare in their eyes.

- You make yourself want them.
- How do you feel about that?

I don't understand how people can
stand next to you one year,

and next year, they cannot.
They're going crazy, screaming.

They can't take it that you're there.
But last year I was in the same club,

walking around,
lonely like a motherfucker.

Couldn't get a date or a dance.
I was too skinny, too something,

and now, "he's just adorable.
He's just, oh!"

But I still enjoyed sex
without the emotional connection.

And it was always a fantasy
for me to have sex

with a lot of people in the room.

But I didn't play
one situation correctly.

Rap singer Tupac shakur
was released on $50,000 bail today,

accused of a sexual attack
in a New York hotel.

The singer was arrested Thursday night
after a woman claimed

that he and three other men
overpowered her in a hotel suite.

- Are you disappointing your fans?
- Very, but they're gonna support me.

Reporter: With bodyguards and attorneys,
he went into Manhattan criminal court.

There, the 22-year-old rapper
and two friends

were charged with first-degree sodomy.

The allegations stem
from an incident last Thursday

in which a woman claims
she was held down

as he and two others
allegedly sodomized her.

The allegations by this young lady
are without merit.

Reporter: Defense attorneys say
the woman went there consensually,

and answering machine tapes
that indicate her interest in shakur

were erased by police.

Okay, so you tell me when your lawyers
have asked you to stop.

The girl who claims that...

What does she claim?

- I can't even say it, man.
- Okay.

But technically, it's a rape case.

Tupac: I wasn't convicted
of no rape charge.

My charge was sexual abuse,
forcibly touching the buttocks.

I have a female saying that...
I can't say it, but...

It just bothers me so much, you know?

To go through my life
and everything I did,

coming out of a family and household
with just women,

to get to this point to have a woman
say that I took something from her.

It was hard.

Reporter: It was an emotional day
for a 20-year-old female fan,

who admitted that she had consensual
sex with shakur on Sunday night,

four days before her alleged rape
in the hotel room.

During her cross-examination,
defense attorney Michael Warren

painted a picture
of a starstruck, naive girl

anxious to have sex with shakur.

Word is, you had a relationship with
this woman prior to all this friction.

If you can say that's a relationship.
I bumped in a club. I'd seen her.

Let's use a clinical term.
There was oral copulation?

Yeah, she performed oral sex
on the dance floor.

A lot of guys could say
what they wouldn't do

and what they would do,
but when it happens, you know...?

- Yeah.
- It just goes down.

And it's... really.

She did some things there at the club,
and we got together later that night.

I saw her again another time with
these guys that introduced me to her.

Everybody was having a good fime,
nothing sexual, just a good time.

Me and her went in, she gave me
a massage, went to sleep, woke up,

she's screaming,
"rape, rape." I raped her.

And she's yelling at me, "this is not
the last you're gonna see of me."

I'm cursing her out because I'm not
thinking she's really gonna do that.

And the next thing I know,
I'm going to jail.

In your opinion there was no truth
to the sexual abuse charges?

Not on my part at all.

Reporter: The defense
pounded away at her,

asking her why
she didn't scream for help

at the time of the alleged attack.

The woman testified
that shakur's friends said:

"Tupac needs his fans.
Don't go to the white man with this.

"Millions of girls would love
to be in your shoes right now.”

Tabitha Soren: What about your cronies?

That was a big misconception.
The people with me weren't friends.

- Why were they in your room?
- I hang with lots of people.

And that's how I am.
It's similar to like you said,

about led zeppelin. They don't
know all of the people with them.

This guy got the weed?
Okay, you can kick it.

Got the money? You can kick it.

This guy has connections to the clubs?
Okay, you can kick it.

I don't know him.

But that was my fault, I had that
kind of environment around me.

I didn't do nothing. I'm charged with
being in concert with some guys.

Well, where are they at?

Why me? Because I'm Tupac...

I'm not mad at them.
I'm mad at the system.

I don't want nobody to go to jail,

but I don't wanna go
for something I didn't do.

I just don't wanna be the scapegoat.

I just couldn't believe
this was going on in my life.

See the cameras. It wasn't like
I had a chance for justice

like a normal citizen.

Reporter: Hi, Tupac. Can you tell me
how you're doing today?

Well, 1 just had to listen
to the prosecution's closing argument,

and it was so far from the truth

that it has me drained
at the end of the day.

But I'm leaving it in
the hands of the jury.

I'm learning a lot about people's
innermost fears in this trial.

It's not even about my trial no more.
It's just about

loud rap music, tattoo-having thugs.

It's about some nightmare
that these people are having.

I can't understand why it's so close.

There's no evidence I sodomized her,
even though you put that in the paper.

Print the facts so everybody
can sort it out.

My life is ruined because nobody
has a chance to get the facts.

Reporter: Fact is,
there was no semen found.

No semen found, no forcible entry,
no entry into the anal, no nothing.

I wanted to explain it.

Tabitha Soren: If you could go back
to the night when the abuse occurred,

is there anything
you'd do differently?

Yeah. What?

I would not have closed my eyes
until she was out of the room,

until everybody was out of the room.

So when you left the room
and left her with those people...

I didn't leave her with those people
or bring her to them.

- She came over?
- Right.

She came over, knew those people,
knew everything.

I just didn't grab her out of there.

I'm guilty of not being a smart man,
not being a goodhearted man,

I guess, or being more considerate.

At any point, were you aware
she was involved in something she...

- Cut. That's a problem right there.
- Man: Excuse me.

None of these legal matters
can be asked.

I have a list of the stuff
you'll have to cut out. Sorry.

- All right.
- Man: The gentleman is out on bail.

Tabitha Soren: I see.

I couldn't defend myself.

This would never have happened
to anybody else.

They have no evidence on me,
and it's about to come out.

Now my life is over.
This is a year later.

A year after the world's been thinking
I'm a rapist.

The whole world owes me an apology.

I went through it and didn't
kill myself like Kurt cobain.

And I should, because this is
some crazy madness.

Man: Central, I got a black male
shot at 48th and 7th.

Last night, just after midnight,
at 7237th Avenue,

that's between 48th and 49th street,

rap star Tupac shakur
and three members of his group

were robbed and shot.

Tupac: They shot me, straight up.

I just kept thinking,
"they really did shoot me."

When I wasn't dead,
immediately I was like, "oh, man."

I was like, "no, this ain't it."

I know how it's gonna be when I die.
It's gonna be no noise.

You ain't gonna hear people screaming.
I'm gonna fade out.

And I didn't...
None of that was there.

I was like, "I got shot five times.
I'm not dead. They missed. I'm back.”

Reporter: When shakur resisted,
he was shot five times,

twice in the head
and twice in the groin area.

And his most serious wound,
a gunshot through the hand,

hitting an artery in his thigh.

He's listed in serious
but stable condition.

Tupac: Until it happeneaq,
I really did believe

no black person would ever shoot me.

I believed that I didn't have to
fear my own community.

You know, I was like,
"I represent them.

"I'm their ambassador to the world.
They would never do me wrong."

I believe that this was a robbery.

Anybody who was gonna walk into
that building was gonna be robbed.

Tupac: The police don't wanna find out
who shot me. They're happy.

As far as that vibe interview,
just read everything over

and read my reply, read
their reply, read what people say.

Everybody that was there
knows what happened.

My recollection was, I was shooting
a video, the second half of warning,

which is the b-side of big poppa,
and I was shooting around the block.

And I heard my man

was up at the studio doing
a junior ma.F.La. Session.

So I got off at the reception area,
and I saw Andre and little Shawn.

I said, "what's up?" About to get on
the elevator, and he comes out shot.

The Tupac article had me pissed off,
you know what I'm saying?

Because first of all,
he dissed my man,

saying he turned his back on him,

and I know for a fact
it didn't happen.

And, like, the rumors that's spreading

is on some tip like we set him up.
And that's crazy.

Puffy combs: As soon as he comes out
shot, me and my man try to sit him down.

He called his mom. He asked
my man if he can roll him a blunt.

We asked if he was all right.

He's like, "yeah,
I don't know what's going on."

We were just trying to comfort him.
Andre harrell called the ambulance.

And everybody there was
very supportive of him.

It was just the total opposite.
He came out and everyone ran to him.

It was nothing but love and concern.

They got different accounts of it,

and I'm the one
with the bullet wounds.

Biggie smalls: / also understand that
if you was to get shot five times,

your mind is just completely spinning.

You're real confused
about your situation.

It'll make you say things
you don't mean.

I was there for the whole thing.

No one else was there
for the whole thing.

I don't know the purpose of why
the story was said in another context.

It's not important that others know
what happened. I said it.

Now that I said it, it's dead.

Believe me or not,
I did what I had to.

God knows the truth.

There's no religion
about getting shot.

I don't want any converts.

After getting shot, I was like,
"shit, I don't know who to trust.”

Reporter: In a bizarre twist of events,

Tupac shakur checked himself out
of bellevue hospital Wednesday night.

Reporter 2: After surgery, Tupac
checked himself out of bellevue

against doctor's orders.

Tupac: It was just time to leave.
I didn't feel safe there.

I kept getting
these crazy phone calls.

At that point, I'm just paranoid,
just bugging out.

I couldn't sleep or rest. I was like,
"I'm just tired, and I wanna just..."

And I felt like I'm like a victim,
a target.

I couldn't even sleep at home.
People could kill me at home.

And are the police gonna
come in and kill me?

You know, is there secret police?

I was so deep into the weed
at that point.

And I was like,
"I'm petrified. I'm vulnerable.”

I felt like just a prisoner
to my own fame.

That's why I wanted fo die
at that point.

I felt like,
"if everybody's so worried,

"why ain't nobody came to help?”

Reporter: Mr. shakur?
Bodyguard: Open up, please. Open up.

Bodyguard: Excuse me.
Bodyguard 2: Step back, please.

- Just keep it tight, that's all.
- Reporter: How are you this morning?

Reporter 2: The jury deliberated, then,

after days of twists worthy
of a Hollywood drama,

Tupac shakur has finally had
one question answered.

Tonight, the jury found him guilty
of three counts of sexual abuse,

but innocent on six other charges,
including sodomy.

Man: Tupac!
Bodyguard: Back it up! No!

Please, give me some space.
Please, man.

Reporter: Why did you decide
to leave the hospital?

Please, y'all are not letting me get
through, man. Let me get through!

- Back it up.
- Why did you leave?

Reporter: And sentencing for this trial
has yet to be scheduled.

Tupac: Where I was sent was
a maximum-security penitentiary.

I know when I was young, I couldn't
wait to get to jail, straight up.

I mean, I was scared and everything,
but I felt that's part of being a man.

Now that I'm here,
this is not the spot.

I know everybody that comes out says,
"this ain't the spot."

This isn't the spot.

Somebody tells you when to get up,
when you can shower, do this, do that.

They can speak to you any way they
want to, and you've gotta accept it.

You can die here, know what I mean?
Yesterday, a dude was murdered.

He wasn't in here on no murder beef.
He was in on a drug beef.

He's gone. He's dead in jail,
you know what I mean?

By another prisoner who had life.

He had nothing to lose,
you know what I mean?

I came to jail. I'm telling you,
it's dirty. It's filthy.

It's like you're an animal.

At first, me and the guards
had problems.

I got smacked and treated bad.

They did whatever
they could to break me

because I used to talk a lot of shit.

As soon as I got there, they went,
"there he goes, the rich nigger.”

I was like,
"oh, shit, he said nigger!"

Everybody's looking at me like, "so?"

And I was like, "my god,
this is where I'm gonna be staying?"

He just said "nigger"!

You've got “niggas”
in one of your records.

Niggas. He's talking about niggers.

Niggers was the ones on the rope,
hanging off the thing.

Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,
hanging out at clubs.

I learned things there.

In jail, it's like
how we should be in life, humble.

I was talking to skinheads because
if you don't like black people,

all right, that's fine.
That's your opinion.

I want people to respect
my opinion when I'm rapping,

so I'll respect yours.

You treat me with respect,

I'll treat you with respect,
and we'll get along.

This skinhead, "hate black people" all
over, getting autographs for cousins.

I accomplished something.

I know, by him getting my autograph,
that meant something to me.

He couldn't hate black people
and get my autograph.

- The food was terrible, I guess.
- Tupac: Oh, my goodness.

They've got this liver surprise thing.

The liver surprise. They're trying
to pump that jail on the menu.

They're trying to get it to go
prime-time, get it in the rotation.

I was like, "we had this yesterday.
I liked it already, goddamn."

- No tater tots?
- No. Are you crazy? Tater tots?

I used to get baked potatoes
with a huge finger imprint on it.

- All right.
- It was bad.

No, you don't wanna get me started.
Jell-o with hair all in the mold.

I'd be like, "damn, man,
how are you gonna mess up jell-o?"

Jell-o is so wholesome
and family-like.

It just ruins it for me.

To have a hair in there, yeah.

I mean, I'm like, "come on,
bill cosby pumps this, man!"

Put the hair in my jell-o.

And you can't go, "there's a hair in
my jell-o. I'd like to send this back.

"Can I see the cook, please?"

The cook is a big dude
named bubba Joe.

The first eight months I spent in
solitude 23 hours a day, reading.

I wrote a script called live 2 tell.

I got how to write a screenplay,
that big famous book by Syd field.

I got that, and I remembered
all of the scripts I ever read,

and I wrote one.

I read a lot of good books.

I read a lot of Maya angelou's books.
The art of war by sun tzu.

But in terms of writing music
and lyrics, I couldn't do it.

Everybody's like, "he's in jail now.
He's gonna have the bomb album.”

But it's the opposite.

Prison kills your spirit, straight up.
It kills your spirit.

I couldn't write. My inspiration was
gone because I was a caged animal.

But when I was in jail,
a lot of people supported me.

Jasmine guy, Jada pinkett,

Mickey Rourke,
he just wrote me funny stories.

The name that sticks out the most,
I'll keep saying this, is Tony danza.

To me, he is the bomb forever.

I will be his number one fan forever,

because when I got his letter,
I was like, "whoa!"

I was screaming out to everybody,
"guess who wrote me!"

They had a story on the local news
that Madonna was coming to visit me.

Madonna has so much power that
the guards gave me an extra shower

because they thought
she was coming to visit me.

Tabitha Soren: Wow.

I had guards walking me downstairs,
everything, trying to peep a look.

- Did she come?
- No. No, I'm glad.

- But you got the extra shower?
- Hey, I got the shower.

The person that supported me
the most was my mother.

When my mother got clean,
we got real close again.

And even as a crack fiend, mama
you always was a black queen, mama

I finally understand, for a woman
it ain't easy, trying to raise a man

I don't blame her for anything.

My mom's the bomb, you know.
The world's best mom.

You are appreciated - lady

don't you know we love you
sweet lady

dear mama is the song
I wrote for my mother.

But it's also for all the mothers.

I'm proud of that.
It affected a lot of people.

It was from me against the world,

which was completed
before I went to jail.

It's just me against the world

me against the world, baby

it was the number one record.

Me against the world was
one of those... my career highs.

It was a trip in jail.

They'd say stuff like,
"you're in jail.

"Won't be any rapping
for a long time. Ha, ha."

I'd be like, "my album
is number one in the country.

"It just beat Bruce Springsteen."

And they'd be like,
"go back to your cell."

I used to get entertainment weekly
and see where my record was

and just trip out and be like,
"number one in the whole country.”

To me, it will always be my favorite,
and jail made me wanna dig deeper.

It took five bullets for me to see
what was really going on.

In jail, you get perspective, and you
start looking at things differently,

like everything is not so important.

You know, you try not
to take it personal.

Because you're talking to killers.

They say something you don't like,
you can't say, "what?"

You gotta be like, "okay, look man,
would you mind not calling me...?"

Anger management like a mother.

In jail, I tried not to have
negative feelings towards nobody.

It's not like I wanted to get out
and go shoot somebody up.

People said, "you softened up.”
ain't nothing soft. Nothing changed.

If anything, my mentality was like,
"trust nobody.

"Trust nobody."

It's not like I'm untouchable.

I could be killed
as soon as I get out.

I just thought,
"I already took five bullets,

"and if I can help it,
I don't plan on taking more."

Rapper, actor and convict,
Tupac shakur,

walked out of jail last week,

bailed out to the tune
of $1.4 million

by suge knight
of death row records,

which signed shakur to a deal.

My closest friends did me in.
My closest friends, my homeys.

I took care of their whole family,
took care of everything,

looked out for them, put them
in the game, turned on me.

So I just thought, "how could I make
them sorry they ever did this to me?

"How can I come back, like,
50 times stronger and better?”

Fear is stronger than love. Remember
that. Fear is stronger than love.

The love I gave meant nothing
when it came to fear.

No question, sign with death row.

Suddenly, I was out on ball,
pending appeal.

If I win my appeal, which,
if god wills, 1 will,

I would've done 11 months
for nothing.

You see that, judge? I didn't curse.
Probation people, I didn't curse.

Give me my props. Let me stay free.

I was relieved, happy to be home.

I wanted to drive up
and down sunset

because I love L.A. with a passion.
I love sunset, everything about L.A.

Can I get tatted up real quick?
I want a crown here.

You know, the energy, that's L.A.

- Hello?
- I'm saying,

we on venice beach. It's what you do.
I've been in jail 11 months, Tabitha.

You're supposed to put “I love you...

You got to let me get a look
at something.

It's a trip when last week
you were in a cell,

and then, next week, I'm up at monty's
with cristal champagne

and filet mignon and lobster
and shrimps.

Everybody went, "let me take you out.
You're home? Let me take you to this!"

We was all up in Roscoe's.
I even celebrated at El pollo loco

because I was dreaming about
El pollo loco the whole time.

Then I went straight to the studio.

And I did 24 tracks in
less than two weeks.

You can mix it later and have niggas
that love being in the studio

just add the drumbeat and shit. You
can do that after the rappers leave.

That's when it's fresh.

Get that beat popping, throw them
niggas on the track, put it down.

Everybody will listen, be like,
"this is the hook."

We'll go lay the hook.
That's the song.

Plus, I had so much to say,

I figured this was
the best way to vent,

instead of paying some
psychotherapist $50 million.

I went in the studio. It was cheaper.

Here we go! California, get up!

Out on bail, fresh out of jail
California dreaming

soon as I step on the scene
I'm hearing hoochies screaming

fiending for money and alcohol
the life of the West Side player

where cowards die
and the strong ball

only in Cali, where we riot, not rally
to live and die

in L.A., we wear Chucks, not ballies

dressed in locs and khaki suits
and ride is what we do

flossin' but have caution
we collide with other crews

you gotta realize one thing:
Tupac is death row.

I feel I have more than just
a business relationship with him.

He can be like a brother, a friend.

I like everyone on the record company.
I like suge, snoop and dre.

I hang out with them anyway,
now it's official.

This is Tupac and Dr. dre,
and this is the week in rock!

- Week in rock, baby!
- Week in rock, baby!

I came out, I was like,
"dre, I want some beats right now."

He's like, "I'm working on
California love."

I said, "you know you owe me this.

"I'm new on death row,
fresh out of jail.

"You ain't gonna be finishing
your album soon."

I love collaborating with creative
people that's as talented as 'pac.

He got right in and wrote his lyrics
while he was behind the Mike

and dropped it, and it's funky.

Say what you say
but give me that bomb beat from dre

let me serenade the streets of L.A.

Me coming to death row,
for another reason was snoop.

Announcer:
Please welcome America's most wanted

snoop doggy dogg and Tupac.

Tupac: The man got so much style.

Ya'll know we down with this rock
thing, nine-six flavor, death row.

But who knew it would last,
this West Side staff?

Yep, yep, yep. This is me and snoop,
2 of amerikaz most wanted,

the bomb track. It's the first single.

It's gonna be like the anthem
of west coast rap.

This is gonna shake the whole
music scene, guaranteed.

Daz:
Ain't nothing but a gangsta party

Tupac: Oh, shit
you done fucked up now

you done put two of
America's most wanted

in the same motherfucking place
at the same motherfucking time

y'all niggas about to feel this
break out the champagne glasses

picture perfect
I paint a perfect picture

bomb the hoochies with precision
my intention's to get richer

with the s-n-double-o-p dogg
my fucking homey

you's a cold-ass nigga
on them hogs

I keep my hand on my gun
'cause they got me on the run

now I'm back in the courtroom
waiting on the outcome

Tupac: Me and snoop represent
the nucleus of the entire ghetto.

Snoop represents the more calm,
all legit, by the book,

no waves,
let's get our business handled.

You're doing your job every day

and then you work so hard
till your hair turn gray

let me tell you about life
and about the way it is

you see, we live by the gun
so we die by the gun's kids

tell me not to roll with my glock
so now I gotta throw away

floating in a black benz
and trying to do a show a day

Tupac: I represent the hard-core,
no-holds-barred,

no-prisoners, relentless thug.

They wonder how I live with five shots
niggas is hard to kill on my block

schemes for currency
and dough-related

affiliated with the hustlers
and so we made it

we both represent
both sides of the game.

The calm one and the relentless one.

My nigga, dogg, with me
eternally the most wanted

here's my commercial for
death row records.

If you come to death row,
you will see

your art brought to a bigger plateau,

and you will be paid
one of these days.

Death row. Count with me.
Count with me.

This is for my homeboys in jail.

These are 100s.
And they ain't counterfeit.

If I said it was the money,
the struggle continues.

I got money, but I have to pay
everybody even more money.

I owe money to death row.

So it's not just, "oh, he's paid.

He's living large.”
it's not like that.

People wanna sue you,
ahd I have to seftle for this and that

when I know I didn't do anything,
just because it's like:

“I don't wanna go to court another
eight months." Makes you work harder.

Next year, death row is gonna
print our own money.

We make so much,
we need to start printing our own.

It's gonna be me and suge
on the $100 bill.

Me, suge and damu gonna be
on the $100 bill.

I felt I'm getting pimped.

This is the $100 bill
on death row money, here.

But you have to come up, start from
the bottom and work up to the top.

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome acclaimed rap artist

and grammy nominee, Tupac.

Tupac: People fail to realize
this is not just play. I work.

Run! Scatter, scatter!

Drag k off the stage.
Y'all come on, man.

Do it for real, man. One, two, three.

When it's time to get down
and do my business, I'm going to.

I can't get no blood on the set?

Shit.

I believe I'm more responsible,
more mature and more focused.

You don't say you need me

you don't sing me love songs

y'all don't bring us flowers anymore

Tupac: When I was in jail, I couldn't
remember why I was rapping.

But I was away from it so long,

I said,
"I really like going to the studio.

"I really like creating.”

Living held down
my game plan, to be trained

and military mind of a thug lord

I ike music, and I like acting.
I like doing it.

She's a super freak
super freak, she's super-freaky

I can be me. I can be whoever
because I'm true to me.

The reason I sell six million records,

the reason I can go to jail
ahd come out without a scratch...

The reason lam who lam is
because I can look

into my face and find my soul.

It's there. I didn't sell it.

So lash out and get a glass

done finally got his own drink
call it the best

introducing a special brew
made for a chosen few

I'm thugged out
while snoop dogg's sipping blue

I thought, "I'm a superpower.
Death row is a superpower.

"Let's combine superpowers and ally.”

Damu! My dog's going crazy,
ready to kill a few people.

- Woman: Yeah. Yeah.
- He wanna kill.

I love my artists.

I don't consider my people artists.
I consider them family.

It's just a big difference, if they
decided to turn in rapping or singing,

they'd still be my homeboys.
We'd still travel together.

If they needed something,
what's mine will still be theirs.

It's no situation where I'm dealing
with them strictly for business,

because they're good.
It's not like that.

You've gotta have more respect
for your people.

Plus we've got a death row east
going on.

- I'm sure you heard about that.
- Tell me about that.

Hold on. Damu! Damu, sit!

But death row has a reputation
for having a thug-like mentality.

Won't that get you in trouble?

Death row has a bigger reputation
for success than anything else.

Reporter: The reason for all of the fear
involves the world of this man,

the man getting out of the limousine.

Six-foot-three, 335-pound
Marion knight,

known by the nickname of "suge,"
short for "sugar."

It's an efficient camp over here,

professional, business-oriented.
I like that.

Reporter: At the age of only 30,
and with a lengthy criminal record,

including three felony convictions,

suge knight has managed
to become the head

of a $100 million record company

and one of the most powerful
and feared men in the music industry.

The controversy
over death row records

and its owner
being sort of a gangster.

Tupac: Everybody's asking
about death row.

- Suge ain't no gangsta. He's chilling.
- No?

No, man, suge a rider.

I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard

good morals when you're
living in a crazy, bad world.

If you're in hell,
how can you live like an angel?

You're surrounded by devils,
trying to be an angel?

That's like suicide.

I'd like to tell Tupac to keep
his guards up. We're with him.

One other thing I'd like to say,

any artist out there
that want to be an artist

and wants to stay a star
and don't wanna have to worry

about the executive producer
trying to be all in the videos,

all on the records, dancing,
come to death row.

Tupac: When I got out of jall,

the west coast-east coast
shit was really starting.

Wait, the east coast don't love
Dr. dre and snoop dogg?

The east coast
ain't got no love for Dr. dre

and snoop dogg and death row?

Tupac: West coast was death row.
The east coast was bad boy.

Puffy combs: Check this out.

I'm the executive producer that
a comment was made about earlier.

Tupac: Everybody thought it was a war,
a war for record sales and attention.

But to me it was personal.

I love the east coast.
I'm from the east coast.

But I felt like
puffy and biggie wanted

to dirty up everything I worked for.

So it made me come back
more relentless.

I'm mad at biggie. I'm rushing
the nigga. What's the problem?

Yo, piggie, man,
we got it going on, baby.

It's on and cracking, man.
He's gone, baby. You the man.

Tupac: So I directed videos.

'Pac, you alive? I mean, you safe?
Man, I'm so happy you're free.

Heh. Yeah? Happy to see you,
lying piece of shit.

'Pac, please don't kill me.
It was buff's idea.

- No, man.
- I'm just a rapper.

Please don't take me out of the game.

I ain't going to kill you.
We was homeboys once, pig.

Once we homeboys,
we always homeboys,

even if you is a fat phony.

Tupac: And I did a song
with faith, biggie's wife.

Faith's my homegirl.

I just want to send a shout-out
to faith. Hey, girl.

Then I did hit 'em up.

That's why I fucked your bitch
you fat motherfucker

which is a classic battle record.

First off, fuck your bitch
and the clique you claim

West Side, when we ride
come equipped with game

you claim to be a player
but I fucked your wife

we bust on bad boys
niggas fucked for life

I'm a self-made millionaire

thug living out of prison
pistols in the air

biggie, remember when I used
to let you sleep on the couch

and beg a bitch
to let you sleep in the house

- now it's all about versace
- You copied my style

- five shots couldn't drop me
- I took it and smiled

now I'm about set the record straight

with my ak, I'm still the thug
that you love to hate

grab your glocks
when you see Tupac

call the cops when you see Tupac

who shot me?
But you punks didn't finish that

you're about to feel
the wrath of a menace

everything happened
so fast at that point.

I was looking at things,
the east coast-west coast thing,

it just got out of control.

Dudes was getting killed,
and I felt responsible.

But I couldn't stop it.

We ain't mad at the whole New York,
just certain people.

I got this project coming
out along with

some brothers called one nation.

It's like an east coast-west coast
collaboration

to kill this whole new vibe.

Everybody want it to be a war

between the east coast
and west coast.

It's really a problem
with two rappers.

The east coast-west coast thing
is something journalists

are making up to get paid off,
so it can drag out

and everybody can have albums. They
perpetuate this, so it can be drama.

When it go down,
don't look at me and biggie

and be like,
"why is there a big war,

"when you're shooting this
to 3,300 homes, 300 countries,

"telling them about a war
that they would never know exists."

That's where information
becomes a problem.

We both need
fo exercise greater restraint.

Damn, sometimes life gets
messed up.

When I was on death row,
I was successful but not happy.

Tabitha Soren: Tupac, your life has
been marred by considerable pain.

Do you think you'll get to the point
where you can live a normal life?

No. But, I, uh...

I'm going for it. I'm trying for it,
and until then

I have to make the life that I do live
as happy as I can

and try to do the best
with what I have.

Live the best life I can live,
be as happy as I can be.

Nothing is perfect for anybody,
I don't think.

I felt trapped.

They say, "you made your bed,
lay in it"?

I tried to move.
I can't move to no other bed.

I felt I can't live
a different lifestyle.

This the life they gave me,
this the life I made.

I felt I can't change, not for
the courts, not for the parole board,

not for nobody. This is it.

I also felt like something was gonna
happen to me because I'm paranoid.

And I put it in my videos.

That nigga ain't want none.
I been drinking. Where he at?

No, no, no, where he at?

Yo, watch out.

Tupac: It was a prophecy.

I had a prophecy about my death.

That's why I go in the studio and do
three songs a day, get things ready.

We don't have time or the luxury

to spend all of this time
doing one song. We don't have it.

If I die, it can happen.

If anything were to happen to me,
that album's ready to go.

So it's all good.

I felt as if the only thing
that can kill me is death,

and even then my music
will live forever.

Reporter: At approximately 9:00 P.M.,
security cameras at the mgm grand

captured Tupac, suge knight and
members of the death row entourage

beating an alleged south side crip,
Orlando Anderson.

Reporter 2: Tupac, suge
and others jumped Anderson,

punching and kicking him.

Terrified bystanders scattered
as the group streamed into the casino

then out info the street.

Tupac: Whoa.

Reporter: Just after
the Mike Tyson fight,

shakur, with record company
executive, suge knight,

a car with four people pulled up
and fired on shakur and knight.

Reporter 2: Shakur was shot
several times in the chest.

The driver, his record producer,
was grazed in the head.

Reporter 3: He's returned
to intensive care after another surgery,

still in critical condition.

Reporter 4: All week long fans of Tupac
have gathered outside the hospital.

Reporter 5: He's undergone
two operations.

His right lung was removed.
He's intermittently conscious.

Jesse Jackson's been here.
Family is keeping vigil.

Despite reports that his wounds
were not life-threatening,

people at the hospital continue
fo tell us

he is in very serious condition.

Reporter 6: At 4:03 this afternoon,
Tupac shakur was pronounced dead.

Tupac: Who shot me?
Shit, I don't know.

Sorry.

My death, it's a tragedy
like Shakespeare, I guess.

But I have no bad feelings.
I have love for everybody.

Please welcome the mothers
of biggie smalls and Tupac shakur,

afeni shakur and voletta Wallace.

Tupac: Coming to grips
with my past, it was hard.

I don't feel what I did was evil.
I feel like the way I was living

and my mentality was a part
of my progression to be a man.

But we grow. We all grow.
We're made to grow.

You either evolve,
or you disappear.

I don't want to be forgotten.

I'll always be a troublemaker
to some people.

But I still get love
from my community.

Tupac: I owe them everything. That's why
I owe everything to the 'hood.

I've got love there.

I've got love from thugs
and the street dudes.

And that focuses me back
on what I should be doing,

lay out the real mat
oh the world and how it is.

The message is,
young black males could do anything

if you just give us a shot,
stop trying to beat us down.

And to my homeboys, we need
to be in control of ourselves.

I'm not saying I'll change the world,
but I guarantee I'll spark

the brain that will change the world.

So keep your head up.

Do what you've gotta do.

And then inside of you,
I'll be reborn.