CORRECT LYRICS
Lyrics : 2Pac - BET Interview With Ed Gordon (1994)
I have something to offer, the business that hasn't been shown before I have a whole energy that represents not just black youth
But white youth, Mexican youth, youth! That change right before you go from being 18 & unresponsable
To when you to being like 21-22 and the whole world's on your shoulders I believe strongly that my audience
empathize with me because i show that side, I show that emotion raw uncut good and bad. And so i think i can bring that more funneled more directed into screen plays, more albums producing managing if i can figure out just how to control it. I can use it in a lot of different levels
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I trip off, cus it happens outta nothing it just goes --
You know everybody just be screaming and happy and i just trip, i get uncomfortable. It's like I'm similar to a deer being caught in a headlight i just freeze you know, and i don't know what to do. don't know if i should be what they want me to be or i should make'em hate me so they can just stop but I'm often just caught in the middle of it because you can't, i mean no one can do that police can't do that they can't stand in front all these people and control then with a gun and mace and all that so me with just words is like a battle to find the right words to say at the right time.
I'm curious when you--
When you think about the idea that you do have that kind of control over so many people, in one sense the whole idea of being a role model comes up And the imagery and alot of people tell me that i talked to with before hand suggested that "hey, you know when you meet him he's gonna be something entirely different than you imagine And what the media is portraying him"
What about that idea that you have been portrayed and sometimes to be honest i mean you've like the portrayal of you just hard, thug, "don't step on me" "you're in trouble"
Yet there's another side to you too what about that idea that you've gotta be able to figure out where you're going.
To me it's like--
It is my sensitive side, that likes to blow up the hard side because
If my if can if my image or reputation could stop a confrontation before it happens I'm fine! You know what i'm saying?
I know how it is day to day. It's a constant man ego check going on in these streets in this world so part of that is just like you knowing that's my resume. But as far as the media they look at it something different they don't about my resume they don't care about me not getting in trouble it's just another story you know and it's a real story they don't have to pay for it and they gon' milk it for all it's worth. As far as people they want me when they first see me to humble myself. They want me to be like this and, just because they're scared of me
But i don't feel like that's my job, to humble myself to show you that I'm not a threat.
I'm not a threat.
Unless, you a threat to me.
You know what I'm saying so when people say
"when you meet Pac he's different than he is"
Because when someone 1on1 anybody 1on1 i believe honestly that i can talk
I believe that i have the ability to reason, i have logic, i have compassion, i have understanding, if we talk then there's no problems. You know what I'm saying but that's not what happens people use what they heard in the media and that's how they come at me and then you know we gotta clutch.
But white youth, Mexican youth, youth! That change right before you go from being 18 & unresponsable
To when you to being like 21-22 and the whole world's on your shoulders I believe strongly that my audience
empathize with me because i show that side, I show that emotion raw uncut good and bad. And so i think i can bring that more funneled more directed into screen plays, more albums producing managing if i can figure out just how to control it. I can use it in a lot of different levels
-
I trip off, cus it happens outta nothing it just goes --
You know everybody just be screaming and happy and i just trip, i get uncomfortable. It's like I'm similar to a deer being caught in a headlight i just freeze you know, and i don't know what to do. don't know if i should be what they want me to be or i should make'em hate me so they can just stop but I'm often just caught in the middle of it because you can't, i mean no one can do that police can't do that they can't stand in front all these people and control then with a gun and mace and all that so me with just words is like a battle to find the right words to say at the right time.
I'm curious when you--
When you think about the idea that you do have that kind of control over so many people, in one sense the whole idea of being a role model comes up And the imagery and alot of people tell me that i talked to with before hand suggested that "hey, you know when you meet him he's gonna be something entirely different than you imagine And what the media is portraying him"
What about that idea that you have been portrayed and sometimes to be honest i mean you've like the portrayal of you just hard, thug, "don't step on me" "you're in trouble"
Yet there's another side to you too what about that idea that you've gotta be able to figure out where you're going.
To me it's like--
It is my sensitive side, that likes to blow up the hard side because
If my if can if my image or reputation could stop a confrontation before it happens I'm fine! You know what i'm saying?
I know how it is day to day. It's a constant man ego check going on in these streets in this world so part of that is just like you knowing that's my resume. But as far as the media they look at it something different they don't about my resume they don't care about me not getting in trouble it's just another story you know and it's a real story they don't have to pay for it and they gon' milk it for all it's worth. As far as people they want me when they first see me to humble myself. They want me to be like this and, just because they're scared of me
But i don't feel like that's my job, to humble myself to show you that I'm not a threat.
I'm not a threat.
Unless, you a threat to me.
You know what I'm saying so when people say
"when you meet Pac he's different than he is"
Because when someone 1on1 anybody 1on1 i believe honestly that i can talk
I believe that i have the ability to reason, i have logic, i have compassion, i have understanding, if we talk then there's no problems. You know what I'm saying but that's not what happens people use what they heard in the media and that's how they come at me and then you know we gotta clutch.
