Configa - Ode to 2Pac (Interlude Part 1) lyrics

[Taina La Poet] Ode to 2Pac First saw you with Digital Underground in the "Same Song" video I never would have believed then that today you'd be my hero I wasn't really a fan when at first you struck Thought you was cute but just another young buck And then "Brenda" dropped her baby and I saw you had a brain Able to articulate the ghettos of the insane Unable to fathom the magnitude of your intensity Little did I know you'd be a part of my destiny And it may sound pretentious to claim you as mine Especially with all these girls screamin "Pac you so fine!" I have to admit your face is divine Sex appeal so sublime, intellect genuine You carved a piece in the world's timeline Your essence leaks out of you, and everybody wants it it's true I gotta admit that yes, I do too But no, it was the conscious level to which you took my teenage mind And led me to understand the people's struggle over time Of this urban warfare on welfare not understanding what is to become of us Your words reached out to give us a soul hug Spittin your verses emphatically and precise Sometimes with rage and lyrically adept You reached into our hearts and pulled out what NEEDED to be said~! And didn't even blink those long eyelashes, not once As you said what you had to say without GIVIN a f** And that's what I liked, because I revere that rebel sh** Confident, angry, head high and verse equipped Our ancestors fought too hard for us to ignore being militant You stressed the dangers of remaining complacent And Pac, you awoke the infant rebel in me Caressed my heart when it needed to be free I can't BELIEVE you awoke this intensity in me That seems to grow bigger the more years that I see...