2pac - Tupac: Resurrection; THUG LIFE lyrics

When I'm saying Thug, I mean not criminals; someone who beats you up and that I mean the underdog, the person that nothing succeeds; he's a thug, because He overcome all obstacles, it doesn't have anything to do with the dictionaries Version of thug, for me thug is my pride, not being someone who goes against the law Not being someone to take, but being someone who has nothing, and that he don't have nothing And there's no home for him to go to, my head is up high, my chest is out, I walk tall, I talk loud I'm being strong! I don't understand why America doesn't understand Thug Life. America is Thug life. What makes me saying ‘I don't give a f**' different than Patrick Henry saying ‘Give me liberty or give me d**h'? What makes my freedom less worth fighting for than Bosnians or whoever they want to fight for this year? They should give money to the ghetto I mean I think 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 n***as going crazy We wanna patrol our streets. So all we saying is If every motherf**er 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 sh** every month. I'll bring new rappers I'll bring Snoop, whoever y'all want I'll go snatch them n***as. For that sh** to happen, we can't have violence And everybody gotta be down for that sh**