We shouldn't be angry and my raps that I'm rapping to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with the same atrocities that they gave to me? In the media, they don't talk about it. So in my raps, I have to talk about it.
— Tupac Shakur Contemporary

Rapper, poet

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Interview, defending the anger in his music

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1994

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Humorous

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