I’ve written songs that show great love and respect for women too. “I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn’t mean I hate women. It’s true, caught up in this world I took advantage of you.” Help me raise my Black nation, reparations are due. Apologizes to my true sisters, far from bitches. “In time I learned a few lessons, never fall for riches. Now I’mma write about the women I see every day and that was ‘ Get Around.’ If I just write songs like ‘Keep Ya Head Up’ it would make me seem more than what I am, but I’m just a normal man.” “I said, I’m gonna write a song about the women like my mom, women like my sister, who I think represent the strong black women, and I did that. But why be unfaithful to her if she’s always true to you?” “I’m not saying girls are perfect, ‘cause we know that’s not true. They make it so when I meet a real woman she’s scared of me cuz of this bitch that said I raped her. But I hate bitches even more because I love women now. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.” And when he tells you ‘you ain’t nothing’, don’t believe him. “Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. Hope we make it, to better times, in this white man’s world.” I never meant to cause drama, to my sister and mama “Every woman in America, especially blackīear with me, can’t you see, that we under attack “A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.” “A man that doesn’t respect his mother, will never respect his wife.” “Ain’t a woman alive that can take my momma’s place.” Every young woman should listen to songs like “Keep Ya Head Up,” – songs that encourage women to be strong, independent, and uncompromising with those who do not show enough love. When you look at Tupac’s lyrics, you can see and feel a completely different attitude towards women, one that does not suggest he would ever do something as cruel as rape. Until his very last moment, he claimed that he had not done it. In February 1995, Tupac began serving his rape sentence. In “ Dear Mama,” he makes his mother Afeni Shakur a declaration of love, expressing his gratitude for everything she has ever done for him.Įqually touching is his song Keep Ya Head Up, in which Tupac expresses his respect for women in general, criticizing men who do not treat women around them properly. Some of Tupac’s most important and well-known songs are inspired by the female presence in his life. In this article, we will show you the best Tupac quotes about women. In some of them, women are openly regarded as a sexual object and a source of pleasure, as it often happens when it comes to art, but in others, the rapper makes a display of his feelings and expresses his admiration and love for them. Period.Women had always played an important role in 2Pac lyrics. And then outlaw is being black and minority. Tupac's mentor, rapper Big Syke, had an even more succinct and straightforward breakdown of what "thug" and "outlaw" meant, saying "I call thugs the nobodies, because we really don't have nobody to help us but us. They would never harm me, they would never rob me, they would never do me wrong." ( The Lost Prison Tapes) I believed that I didn't have to fear my own community. Tupac also spoke out firmly against Black-on-Black violence, and despite the media's attacks on him, was very clear that he thought people in his community should be using their power to organize, to build something better, and to stop violence and rape.Īfter a shooting in 2003 that put him in the hospital, he said, "I really did believe that no Black person would ever shoot me. Part of being is to stand up for your responsibilities and say this is what I do even though I know people are going to hate me and say, 'It's so politically un-correct' and 'How could you make black people look like that?' I want to be real with myself." ( Source)Įven though the media spilled endless ink fretting about Tupac's encouragement of gang activity, he didn't like the label "gangsta rap" and had a complex analysis of what gangs were.
I mean like I'm not scared to say how I feel. In an interview for MTV, Tupac responded to the criticism: "It's not thugging like I'm robbing people, 'cause that's not what I'm doing. It was also criticized from within the Black community for giving white America the impression that violence and materialism were all Black people stood for. People argued that Pac's words and behavior encouraged violence and criminal behavior, especially for Black youth. Tupac was widely criticized for embracing T.H.U.G. stood for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F-s Everyone," basically meaning that like it or not, thugs are the products of this society.
"It's not an image it's just a way of life," he said in 2005.