| 2Pac - Thugz Mansion |
| Tupac: |
| Shit, tired of getting shot at |
| Tired of getting chased by the police and arrested |
| Niggas need a spot where we can kick it |
| A spot where we belong, that's just for us |
| Niggas ain't gotta get all dressed up and be Hollywood |
| You na'mean? |
| Where do niggas go when we die? |
| Ain't no heaven for a thug nigga, that's why we go to Thug Mansion |
| That's the only place where thugs get in free and you gotta be a G |
| At Thug Mansion |
| Tupac: |
| A place to spend my quiet nights, Time to unwind, |
| so much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, |
| I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried |
| But when I held that nine all I could see was my mama's eyes |
| No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble |
| Not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you |
| Picture me inside the misery and poverty |
| No man alive has ever witnessed struggles I survived |
| Praying hard for better days, Promised to hold on |
| Me and my dogs don't have a choice but to roll on |
| We finally found a spot to kick it |
| Where we could drink liquor and no one bickers over trick shit |
| A spot where we could smoke in peace |
| And even though we Gs, |
| We still visualize places that we could roll a piece |
| And in my minds eye, I see this place the players go and pass it |
| Got a spot for us all, So we can ball |
| At Thug'z Mansion |
| (Chorus) |
| Every corner, every city |
| There’s a place where life’s a little easy |
| Little hennesy, laid back and cool |
| Every hour, cuase it’s all good |
| leave all stressed from the world outside |
| Every wrong done will be allright |
| Nothing but peace, love |
| It’s street passion |
| Every ghetto needs a thug mansion |
| Nas: |
| A place where death doesn’t reside |
| Just thugz who collide |
| Not to start beef |
| Or spark trees |
| No cops rollin by |
| No policemen |
| No homicide |
| No talk on the streets |
| No reason |
| For no body’s momma to cry |
| See I’m a good guy |
| Im tryin to stick around for my daughter |
| But if I should die |
| I know all of my albums support her |
| This whole year’s been crazy |
| Ask the Holy Spirit to save me |
| Only difference from me and nosy Davis grey hair maybe |
| Cuase I feel like my eyes saw to much sufferin |
| Im just 20 some odd years I haven’t lost my mother |
| And I cry tears of joy |
| I know she smiles on a boy |
| I dream of you more |
| My luck goes to Afeni Shakur |
| Cuase like Anne Jones |
| She raised a ghetto king in a war |
| And just for that alone |
| She shouldn’t feel no pain no more |
| Cause one day we’ll all be together |
| Sipping heavenly champaigne |
| With angels songs, with golden rings |
| In Thugz Mansion |
| Chorus |
| Tupac: |
| Dear mama don't cry, Your baby boy's doin' good |
| Tell the homies I'm in heaven and it ain't got hoods |
| Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night |
| It had me shook |
| Drinking peppermint schnapps with Jackie Wilson and Sam Cook |
| Then some lady named Billie Holiday sang |
| Sittin there kickin it with Malcolm till the day game |
| Lil' Latasha sure grown, tell the lady in the liquor store that she's forgiven |
| So come home |
| Maybe in time you'll understand, only God can save us |
| Where Miles Davis cutting lose with the band |
| Just think of all the people that you knew in the past that passed on |
| They in heaven found peace at last |
| Picture a place that they exist, together |
| There has to be a place better than this, in Heaven |
| So right before I sleep dear God what I'm asking |
| Remember this face, save me a place |
| In Thugz Mansion |
| (Chorus) |
| 2Pac - Changes |
| {1} |
| Come on come on |
| I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself |
| Is life worth living should I blast myself? |
| I'm tired of bein' poor even worse I'm black |
| My stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch |
| Cops give a damn about a negro |
| Pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero |
| Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares |
| One less hungry mouth on the welfare |
| First ship 'em dope let 'em deal the brothers |
| Give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other |
| It's time to fight back that's what Huey said |
| 2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead |
| I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere |
| Unless we share with each other |
| We gotta start makin' changes |
| Learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers |
| And that's how it's supposed to be |
| How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? |
| I'd love to go back to when we played as kids |
| But things changed, and that's the way it is |
| {Bridge w/ changing ad libs} |
| Come on come on |
| That's just the way it is |
| Things'll never be the same |
| That's just the way it is |
| Aww yeah |
| {Repeat} |
| {2} |
| I see no changes all I see is racist faces |
| Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races |
| We under I wonder what it takes to make this |
| One better place, let's erase the wasted |
| Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right |
| 'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight |
| And only time we chill is when we kill each other |
| It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other |
| And although it seems heaven sent |
| We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh |
| It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact |
| The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks |
| But some things will never change |
| Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game |
| Now tell me what's a mother to do |
| Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you |
| You gotta operate the easy way |
| I made a G today But you made it in a sleazy way |
| Sellin' crack to the kid. I gotta get paid, |
| Well hey, well that's the way it is |
| {Bridge} |
| {Talking:} |
| We gotta make a change... |
| It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. |
| Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live |
| And let's change the way we treat each other. |
| You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do |
| What we gotta do, to survive. |
| {3} |
| And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace |
| It's war on the streets the war in the Middle East |
| Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs |
| So the police can bother me |
| And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do |
| But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you |
| Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up, |
| Crack you up and pimp slap you up |
| You gotta learn to hold ya own |
| They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone |
| But tell the cops they can't touch this |
| I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this |
| That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool |
| My mama didn't raise no fool |
| And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped |
| And; I never get to lay back |
| 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs |
| Some buck that I roughed up way back |
| Comin' back after all these years |
| Rat - a - tat - tat - tat - tat that's the way it is uhh |
| {Bridge 'til fade} |