1- Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight... Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing in sight... Why am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try... Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?

2- Ain't a woman alive that can take my momma's place...

3- For every dark night, there's a brighter day...

4- Only God can judge me...

5- You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on...

6- They got money for the war but can't feed the poor...

7- I aint a killer but dont push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy...

8- I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living should I blast myself?

9- This fast life soon shatters; cause after all the lights and screams; nothing but my dreams matter

10- It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down...

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

12- Unconditional love. Talking bout the stuff that don't wear off, it don't fade. It'll last for all these crazy days, these crazy nights. Whether you wrong or you right, I'mma still love you, still feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with unconditional love

13- I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward...

14- A coward dies a thousand deaths... A soldier dies but once...

15- I want to take your misery... replace it with happiness... but i need your faith in me...

16- I'm not sayin I'm gonna rule the world, or that I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world...

17- We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart

18- It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE

19- See you got some niggas on your side, that say they're your friends... but in real life they your enemies... And then you got some muthafuckers that say they your enemies... but in real life they eyes is on your money... See the enemies will say they true, but in real life those niggas will be the snitches...

20- What you won't do do for love... You tried everything, but you don't get love...

21- I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle... I make mistakes but learn from every one and when it's said and done... I bet this brother be a better one. If I upset you dont stress... Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet...

22- I know death follows me, but I murder him first...

23- Reality is wrong... Dreams are for real...

24- I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing... Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that... So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up, and handle it...

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

26- Though things change, the future's still inside of me...

27- But now that you're gone, I'm in the zone... thinkin I don't wanna die all alone...

28- If we really are saying that rap is an art form... then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics... If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die... it just matters that you didnt save them...

29- Driven by my ambitions, desire higher positions, so I proceed to make g's, eternally and my mission is to be more than just a rap musician the elevation of today's generation, if I can make 'em listen...

30- Wars come and go... but my soldiers stay eternal...

31- Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me...

32- Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes...

33- Got me starin' at the world through my rear view....

34- My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated...

35- Whatever it takes to switch places with the bustas on top...

36- Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all... because we all die in the end, no matter how hard we fight...

37- The only thing that comes to a sleeping... man is dreams...

38- We might fight amongst eachother, but i promise you this we'll burn this bitch down get us pissed...

39- One thing we all adore, something worth dying for... nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searchin for fortune and fame...

40- Switching up on you ordinary bitches...

41- What people do for the struggle of power is madness...

42- Keep your mind on your riches, baby... keep your mind on your riches...

43- Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

44- Niggas Talk a lot of shit but thats after we’re gone cuz they fear us the the physical form let it be known we troublesome...

45- You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it... silly rabbit, why ya sweat me...

46- Expose foes wit my... hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows...

47- There’s gonna be some stuff u gonna see that’s gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but through whatever you see, Through all the rain and all the pain... you gotta keep your sense of humor. you gotta be able to smile... through all this bullshit...

48- Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been... I`m not the thief who grabs your purse... I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others... I`m just a brother who fight back...

49- EVEN THOUGH I’M MARKED FOR DEATH... I’MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH...

50- Money gone, fuck friends, i need a homie that know me when all these mothafuckin cops be on me....

51- NOW I’M TRAPPED IN THA MOTHERFUCKIN’ STORM...

52- Everybody’s at war with different things... I’m at war with my own heart sometimes...

53- All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world... die in violence. They don’t die in regular ways...

54- I believe that everything that you do bad... comes back to you So... everything that I do that’s bad, I’m going to suffer from it... But in my mind I believe what I’m doing is right So I feel like I’m going to heaven...

55- I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?...

56- Live by the gun die by the gun...

57- Oh Lord, help me change my ways... Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em’ play me for a busta, Makin’ hell for a hustler...

58- Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is thegreatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight...

59- When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or... a belief that I have lived for

60- I thought i had friends but in the end niggaz dies lonely...

61- Picture Me Rollin...

62- I’m just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things... Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to... be at me. They’re going to come 100 percent...

63- We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King JR, but It’s time to be like them, as strong as them... They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don’t want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says... this is who i am, this is what i do. I say what’s on my mind...

64- The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since...

65- I am societies child, this is how they made me, and now im sayin what’s on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America...

66- I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn’t high I’d probably blow my brains out...

67- Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven’t taken music from us yet. So that’s how I’ll fight. People tell me don’t quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear...

68- The american dream wasn’t meant for me, cause lady liberty’s a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom, education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold...

69- Let the Lord judge the criminals...

70- Life’s a wheel of fortune and it’s my chance to spin it...

71- Support me... If you don’t understand me don’t write about me...

72- Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don... you understand? But I'm the underboss, the capo... That’s my job to what’s best for Death Row...

73- People might be, like, “This niggas conceited,” but fuck it. I feel like I shine. And I don’t give a fuck how many white people, the Media, black people, playa haters, police, whoever, try to darken my shine, Im’a always shine through...

74- I never thought I was the best rapper the best nothing... I think I’m the realist nigga out there...

75- All I can say is I always try to be a real nigga in my heart. Sometimes its good, sometimes it’s bad; but its still us. Its never to hurt anybody...

76- I truly believe I’ve been blessed by God, and God walks with me...

77- If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid... grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can’t even see that I’ve come up from out of that...

78- We are in the midst of a very dangerous, non-productive, self-destructive civil war. And it’s not just rap shit. It’s ideals. And this rap shit is just bringin’ it to a head. The East Coast believe one thing, and the West Coast believer one thing. The East Coast got one way of life, the West Coast got another wayof life, it always co-existed. We’re coming to the turn of the century where we gotta mash together. But we can only do it one way, one style. And that’s what we’re trying to figure out now, and I think the world is watching that...

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

80- America, America, America, I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault...

81- One day I’m gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn’t find a trace of humanity...

82- Why isn’t it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it’s ok. It’s music, it’s hip-hop, it’s ground breaking. When I do it, it’s war...

83- I don’t bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I’m bangin’ for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel...

84- I was the truest nigga involved in Biggie’s success...

85- Biggie is not a playa. He’s never been. He’s never had bitches until he got some fuckin’ money. That’s a trick-that’s not a playa...

86- Everything he wanna have I got...

87- Biggie forgot. The same shit that made him wanna kick it with me is the same shit that’s whoopin’ his ass right now...

88- I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will... Already people can’t look at Biggie and not laugh...

89- Stole my lyrics... I stole his bitch. Took my rhymes... I took his wife. If he talk all that shit about being a playa and I got his wife two days after I got outta jail- imagine that gangsta shit he’s talking, imagine how plastic that shit is...

90- Can’t nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I’m takin’ every movin’ target out...

91- How many bruthas fell victim to the street rest in peace young nigga there’s a heaven for a G, It’d be a lie if I told you that I never thought of death, My niggaz, we the last ones left, Life goes on...

92- Bury me smilin’ with G’s in my pocket Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe Gimme... a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don’t get in...

93- Last year we poured out liquor for ya’ll This year nigga life goes on We’re gonna lock down Get money, evade bitches, evade tricks, give playaz plenty of space And basically represent for you baby Next time you see your niggaz we gonna be on top They’re gonna be like damn them niggaz came up That’s right baby, life goes on...

94- Maybe now niggaz feel me now Picture my pain Embrace my words Make the world change And still I smile nigga...

95- Gangsta Rap is dead. I’ve moved on...

96- There ain’t nothin’ like a Black woman...

97- I heard a rumor I died Murdered in cold blood dramatized Pictures of me in my final state You know mama cried But that was fiction Some coward got the story twisted Like I no longer existed Mysteriously missin’ I’m known worldwide baby I ain’t hard to find...

98- I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to ‘em, they stressed out and goin’ under....

99- don’t player hate don’t discriminate participate before i punch you in your face, cause you know i don’t play.....

100- Your body is bangin’ baby I love it when you flaunt it Time to give it to daddy nigga now tell me how you want it...

101- I’m not the king. I’m not the teacher or nothing like that... but I feel like I don’t have no peers. l’ve been out les than a year, convicted of allegations that usually end niggas careers. Shot five times in the nuts and the head... I came out and in less than a fuckin’ year and outsold Biggie almost three times. I sold more records than his whole fuckin’ label...

102- I’m gonna change the rules in the rap game... You know, how, like politics, the Republicans are in now; well, I represent that style; I’m the new nigga, I’ma shake up the whole Congress, by puttin’ out a double-album-that nobody ever did-I had the most expensive album on the Charts... and I outsold everyone of them muthafuckas. And I did it in two months...

103- Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost... Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost...

104- To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I’m a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything...

105- Sheddin tears, reminiscin on my past fears Cause shit was hectic for me last year It appears that I’ve been marked for death, my heartless breath The underlying cause of my arrest, my life is stressed And no rest forever weary, my eyes stay teary for all the brothers that are buried in the cemetery...

106- My music is not for everyone. It’s only for the strong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It’s not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it’s spiritual... My musiC is spiritual. It’s like Negro spirituals. except for the fact that I’m not saying ‘We shall Overcome.’ I’m saying that we are overcome...

107- I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn’t fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn’t have no buddies that I grew up with…Every time I had to go to a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself. People think just because you born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don’t fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White people’s world, that’s criminal... Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at any moment...

108- The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That’s why I’m not on this all-White or all Black shit. I’m on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there’s some [foul] niggaz out there [in the streets]; the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus Christ- every brother ain’t a brother. They will do you. So just because it’s Black, don’t mean it’s cool. And just because it’s White don’t mean it’s evil...

109- To me, it reall y troubling because I took over at that’s successful- Marky Mark, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, New Kids On The Block selling twenty-two million copies... and I want that [kind of success] so badly, but I can’t do that. I would be wrong to do that, knowing what I know and having the brain that I have, for me to even go... and write some simple shit would be wrong even though I would get paid and I would get more people’s money. I would rather leave something so that when people pick up 2pacalypse Now or any of my other albums in 1999, they’ll go, Damn! Brothers had it hard back in the day, but brother were working it out...

110- Dangerous and ambitious while schemin’ on gettin’ riches. I’m spittin’ at tricks... cuz I’m addicted to pretty bitches. Currency motivated, not easily terminated, Now that we made it, my niggaz can never be faded. This is my prophecy... I gotta be paid All you cowards that try to stop me is beggin’ for early graves I thought we was cool I was a fool. Thinkin’ you could be true, when I don’t fuck with your punk crew...

111- That which does not kill me can only make me stronger

112- I’m in jail now, but I’m free... My mind is free. The only time I have problems is when I sleep...

113- I guarantee if people keep supportin’ me…. Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me... I’ma keep givin’ money. Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I’m putting money up for community centers

114- And now i’m like a major threat, ‘Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget...

115- There’s no way I can pay ya back, but my plan is... to show ya that I understand...

116- I didn’t get that power from gunz coz there’s no gunz in jail I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing That’s what I want little niggaz to see...

117- Don’t shed a tear for me, nigga I ain’t happy here, I hope they bury me and send me to my rest, headlines reading murdered to death, my last breath...

118- Mama raised a hellraiser why cry.. That’s just life in the ghetto, do or die...

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

120- I don’t see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me... how to live my life (you know), Let me live baby, Let me live...

121- Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what’s, next, In this world full of countless threats...

122- I don’t advocate senseless violence of any human being. I’m the one who’s been beat down. But I will not be a victim again...

123- Fuck the fame, I still won’t change, are you still down???

124- And did you ever stop to think that I’m old enough to go to war but I aint old enough to drink

125- How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie but I’ll kill all of y’all...

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

127- Walked in the store what’s everybody staring at, They act like they never seen a mutha fucker wearing black, Following a nigga and shit, Ain’t this a bitch, All I wanted was some chips

128- God come save the youth Ain’t nothin else to do but have faith in you Dear Lord I live the life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my mistakes, I gotta play my hand...

129- They claim that I’m violent just cuz I refuse to be silent...

130- Mr. Police, Please Try to see, That there’s a million muthafuckas stressin’ just like me...

131- United we stand divided we fall. They can shoot one nigga. But they can’t take us all...

132- So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery...

133- I guess cause i’m black boy, I’m supposed to say ‘peace’, sing songs, and get capped on.

134- They should’ve shot me when I was born... Now I’m trapped in the muthafuckin’ storm...

135- We ain’t meant to survive, cause it’s a setup, And even though you’re fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up...

136- It’s kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted...

137- They say it’s the white man I should fear... But it’s my own kind doin’ all the killin’ here...

138- I’m tired of being a nice guy, I’ve been poor all my life, but don’t know quite why.

139- I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

140- Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn’t make it.

141- I was raised in this society so you can’t expect me to be a perfect person cause Ima do what Ima do.

142- Don’t ever stop, just push until you hit the top, and if you try, atleast you know you gave your all, be true to you, and that way... you can never fall be true to you, believe that there is no one bigger, cause they can all suck dick...

143- And I hope I’m forgiven for Thug Livin when I die...

144- While I’m dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.

145- I ain’t racist but lets trade places.

146- A thug nigga drinkin hard liquor, This ghetto life has got me catchin up to God quicker.

147- I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha old school.

148- No longer living in fear... my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year...

149- They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin’ in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell...

150- Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear???

151- He was a nice middle class nigga, But nobody... knew the evil he’d do when he got little bigger.

152- Study your lessons, don’t settle for less.

153- Gettin high, livin’ everyday, like i’m gonna die.

154- Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn’t pay the rent I hate the studio... cause that’s where all my money went.

155- Questions for the lord, why he don’t like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

156- Went to church but don’t understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

157- First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and... watch them kill each other.

158- And every breath I breath untill the moment I’m deceased. Will be another moment ballin’ as a ‘G’.

159- Throw it up y’all, throw it up, Throw it up Let’s show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it’s tha best side.

160- Bill Clinton Mr. Bob Dole You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

161- Stabbin for a fee, it gets hard on the fuckin streets, It’s like a madness, fuck making gravy I rhyme and do crimes, cuz either way pays me A little rough with a hardcore... theme Couldn’t rough something rougher in your dreams.

162- When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I’m livin’ large you tell me, its trouble.

163- Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

164- “Now I was born alone, took my first joint and I got high alone Now I’m an Outlaw nigga, I never die alone.

165- Down to die, for everything I represent Meant every word, in my letter to the President.

166- You want us to fight your war What the fuck I’m fightin for? Shit, I ain’t got no love here I ain’t had a check all year.

167- Burnin’ churches, fearin’ God Who can be so cruel We all ignorant to AIDS Till it happens to you.

168- I am crazy, but you know what else: I don't give a fuck.

169- How can I survive? Got me askin white Jesus will a nigga live or die, cause the Lord can’t see us in the deep dark clouds of the projects, ain’t no sunshine No sunny days and we only play sometimes.

170- And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change...

171- And in turn I’m hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em...

172- Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

173- You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way... we treat each other. You see the old way wasn’t working so its on US, to do what we gotta do to survive...

174- Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

175- Deloris Tucker you’s a muthafucker instead of tryin’ to help a nigga you destroy a brotha.

176- Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

177- To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

178- I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

179- Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

180- Of course I’m going to say "I’m a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I’m still HERE!!!

181- ‘Cause if God wrote the Bible, I’m sure there would have been a revised copy by now... ‘Cause a lot of shit has changed... I’ve been looking for this revised copy. I still see that same old copy that we had from then. I’m not disrespecting anyone’s religion, please forgive me if it comes off that way, I’m just stating my opinion.

182- As far as jealousy, being a celebrity, No matter who committed the crime, they all yell at me. And the media is greedier than most. You could sell em your soul and they’ll be on ya till a nigga’s a ghost. And everyday I read the paper, there’s another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

183- What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

184- Thinkin with your brains blown that would make the pain go No!!! You got to find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

185- heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.

186- If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just matters that you didnt save them.

187- But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They’re going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I’m going to lose. And thats why I’m losing.

188- What is we all fear, reflections in the mirror We can’t escape fate, the end is getting nearer

189- Don't cry, just ask why, and try not to die as I take you through a ghetto nigga's lullabye

190- Nothing a court can do to punish me, more then I’ve been punished already

191- 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 skill to be real, time to heal each other.

192- Now who's to say if I was right or wrong? To live my life as an outlaw all along Remain strong in this planet full of playa haters They conversate, but Death Row full of demonstrators.

193- Someone who hates you normally hates you for one of three reasons. they either see you as a threat. they hate themselves... or they want to be you...

194- Out on bail fresh, outta jail, California dreamin' Soon as I stepped on the scene, I'm hearin' hoochies screamin'.

195- I heard Brenda's got a baby... but Brenda's barely got a brain A damn shame, the girl can hardly spell her name.

196- Grab your glocks when you see Tupac Call the cops when you see Tupac Who shot me, but you punks didn't finish Now you're 'bout to feel the wrath of a menace...

197- They say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots.

198- All I need in this life of sin, is me and my girlfriend Down to ride to the bloody end, just me... and my girlfriend...

199- Different things at different times. My own heart sometimes. There's two niggas inside me. One wants to live in peace, and the other... won't die unless he's free.

200- some games you play... some games play you...