Paranoid

I told y'all we bad

Hey, hey, hey, hey

When Tyson get in the ring, he knock motherfuckers out

Well, that's what 2Pac gon' do

When niggas come against me, I'ma knock they punk ass out

They told me Makaveli, that's the hard name to get

Motherfucker, I was born with a target on my back

the fame and the money, I just wanna find a freak

Down, countin' down the hours while they sharpenin' they

I see a look in they eyes when they pass me in the hall

Whisperin' behind my back like I ain't already know

Every nigga that I love turned into a rat with a badge

And the ones that stay loyal catch a bullet in the back

the street don't come around

Paranoia got me checkin' locks and turnin' off the sound

They just wanna see me buried six feet in the ground

But I been dead inside since the day they shot McDaniel

I walk the corridor slow like I ain't got nowhere to be

Eyes steady scattin' every corner, every doorway, every tree

Fuck a bodyguard, I know exactly what they plannin'

Niggas that'll try to sell my life for pocket change, motherfuckin' cloaks

Friends turnin' cold in me fast, I flip a spliff on all of them

But the future still look flattened

Got a Bible in my pocket and a pistol on my hip

I'm for the show, I'm for the

I've been havin' dreams that want me screamin' in the night

White walls closin' in and I can't find no light

They say death comes quick, but that's a motherfuckin' lie

I've been dyin' slow since then, I can't reply

The future in the water on the floor

Reflections show the casket that they dressin' me for

I'm just a young nigga out here tryin' to make it right

But they want me in the ground before I see the light

I ain't scared to die, but I'm scared of how they do it

Sneakin' up behind me, make it quiet, make it smooth

Fuck that, I'm a lion, I'm a bull

Before I fall, if I'm goin' out of standin' tall

It's not a threat, that's a promise

I'm not even gon' be here

I'ma be so far from where I am now in four years

God willin', I'm alive

It's on, I guarantee you we will, we will have our own political party

And it won't be just for black people, it's gonna be for Mexicans

It's gonna be for Mexicans, it's gonna be for black people

It's gonna be for Armenians, I don't give a fuck

All you lost tribe motherfuckers right now

We need to have our own political party

'Cause we all have the same motherfucking problem

We built this nation and we get none of the benefits

I already have famous records, kid

I'm in this shit for the honor and the respect

That's why this shit feels so good

For the violence

Yeah, it's for the violence

But to be a family, to be known as something

To get this, this, this, this dark cloud off of us as a race

I wanna just, some kind of sunshine, some kind of exceptional deed

So we can all stop sucking Malcolm X and Michael Jordan dick

You know what I mean?

Like, we don't never have to be shit

'Cause we got Jordan and Malcolm X

I'm not with

They say Makaveli, you the illest in the game

But the illest still bleed and I'm feeling every vein

Every scar, every wound that they tarp into my skin

I'm a warrior born, but I'm dying like a man

I sit alone in empty rooms and talk to empty chairs

Asking God up in the sky, do he even hear my prayers?

Fuck the guap, I

want somebody holdin' my hand

When the lights go out forever and I leave this land

I turn the lobby into mattress, secrets in the vault

But none of that can save me, won't erase my biggest foe

I let the wrong ones in, and now I'm payin' for it all

Every lesson taught and blood written on the wall

One eye open, that's the code I live by now

Every shadow in the corner got me reachin' for the sound

Hollow point to hollow soul, that's a match made in hell

If I'm goin' down, I'm takin' niggas with—

I just wanna send another message out to the dudes that shot me

I'm still here

All five bullets touched me, but you couldn't kill me

So all you did was really just give me that much more ambition

That much more, uh, drive to go forward

You really won't be able to stop me

'Cause I'ma be unstoppable

Because my heart is strong, my drive is strong

I mean, I feel like God put his hands on me

So thanks to everybody that supported me

the dudes that shot me

Thanks, but no thanks

I'm still alive, you missed

Haha, I'm hard to kill

Blah blah, na-na-na-na-na

2Pac Shakur

I'm a poet with a pistol and a preacher with a pen

Writing sermons for the sinners, but I'm bound like I'm

They gon' read my words out loud when I'm six feet below

And finally understand I'm painted off the net and go

It's pop one time for the ones who held me down

And I'll fuck you till the snakes end up swimming all around

Where is your mom?

I'm rising like the tides

As I decide the end, motherfucker, I ain't gone

So I'm sleeping in this shit, last thing that I know

Is I love with all my soul

And I chose the truth even when the truth was cold

Fuck a legacy, I just wanted to be here

But heaven's got my door and it's ringing in my ear

Is this the hallway?

Stomping at my door

Just like a hammer on the floor

I don't move, I don't breathe, I just listen to the sound

Waitin' for the moment that they finally put me down

But the steps keep on walkin' past me like I'm made of air

And I'm nothin' with my heartbeat but none in my silent prayer

They say paranoid, but I know what I know is true

Every hour that I'm grievin' is an hour that I'm due