[Chorus]
"Will there ever be peace?
Or all we all just headed for doom,
Still consumed by the beefs,
And I know, there'll never be peace (never)
That's why I keep my pistol when I walk the streets
'Coz there'll never be peace."
Tupac is such a conscience-awakening artist because so much of his music is a reminder of the pain and struggle of young Black youth, but really speaks to all impoverished urban youth the world around. In particular, Tupac's message can be seen to resonate well with minority populations that have been cut off, forgotten, and abandoned by the larger world community. And so during so-called "quiet" times according to the dominant-aggressor, the struggling minority community sends reminders to shock the dominant and dormant communities of the world into realizing that the plight for help and the struggle for survival is still on and just as intense as it's always been, even if not enough to affect change in the larger and dominant community. He is constantly reminding us to wake up and realize the gravity of the situation his community (and like-communities,) and by natural consequence, the larger community will face if things don't change for the better. This is why so many people love Tupac. He was a voice for the oppressed the world-over, and his message is really simple -
if you don't clean up your backyard, the dirt will reach up to your own patio doors, til you're forced to clean it.
If not for the right reasons, the "higher society" should at least care that they will soon face the consequences of abandoning their lower-class counterparts. And this of course, is Tupac's satire of high-class America; because according to him, they always criticize and vilify the ghettos, housing projects, and other poor neighborhoods without really caring about fixing them either, when they are in the position to really make positive changes. So he essentially turns their 'good nature' on its backside and exposes them as heartless and greedy and just about all the other adjectives his own community gets labeled as. And this one song, "Never B Peace" is only one example of a call for reform in the life of a truly prolific yet short-lived career of a budding social activist, aspiring leader and visionary. Rest in Peace Tupac.
"Shit, fuck peace
On the strength 'til my niggas get a piece
We cant have peace
How the fuck we gonna live happy if we ain't got none?
You mahfuckaz is smiling, but I'm mean mugging
Why? Cause I gotta be thuggin
I've seen drugs done turned this whole motherfucking hood out
All us niggas acting up
Wild-ass motherfucking adolescents
These niggas ain't even got no childhoods no more
How the fuck can you have a childhood
and you have a funeral every mahfucking weekend
And you mahfuckaz talking about peace?
Nigga, it ain't no motherfucking peace
You ain't seen the news motherfucker?
You ain't heard?
Little babies getting smoked
Mahfuckaz killing there whole family
'Lil kids getting thrown off buildings
Mahfuckaz gettin abused
Peace!? Nigga is you out your fucking mind??
Fuck peace!
We can't never have peace, till you motherfuckers clean up this mess you made
'Til you fucking clean up the dirt you dropped
'Till WE get a piece
Fuck peace
Westside."
Nice remix of the original "Never B Peace" (samples "When I'm Gone" by Eminem)
"Will there ever be peace?
Or all we all just headed for doom,
Still consumed by the beefs,
And I know, there'll never be peace (never)
That's why I keep my pistol when I walk the streets
'Coz there'll never be peace."
Tupac is such a conscience-awakening artist because so much of his music is a reminder of the pain and struggle of young Black youth, but really speaks to all impoverished urban youth the world around. In particular, Tupac's message can be seen to resonate well with minority populations that have been cut off, forgotten, and abandoned by the larger world community. And so during so-called "quiet" times according to the dominant-aggressor, the struggling minority community sends reminders to shock the dominant and dormant communities of the world into realizing that the plight for help and the struggle for survival is still on and just as intense as it's always been, even if not enough to affect change in the larger and dominant community. He is constantly reminding us to wake up and realize the gravity of the situation his community (and like-communities,) and by natural consequence, the larger community will face if things don't change for the better. This is why so many people love Tupac. He was a voice for the oppressed the world-over, and his message is really simple -
if you don't clean up your backyard, the dirt will reach up to your own patio doors, til you're forced to clean it.
If not for the right reasons, the "higher society" should at least care that they will soon face the consequences of abandoning their lower-class counterparts. And this of course, is Tupac's satire of high-class America; because according to him, they always criticize and vilify the ghettos, housing projects, and other poor neighborhoods without really caring about fixing them either, when they are in the position to really make positive changes. So he essentially turns their 'good nature' on its backside and exposes them as heartless and greedy and just about all the other adjectives his own community gets labeled as. And this one song, "Never B Peace" is only one example of a call for reform in the life of a truly prolific yet short-lived career of a budding social activist, aspiring leader and visionary. Rest in Peace Tupac.
"Shit, fuck peace
On the strength 'til my niggas get a piece
We cant have peace
How the fuck we gonna live happy if we ain't got none?
You mahfuckaz is smiling, but I'm mean mugging
Why? Cause I gotta be thuggin
I've seen drugs done turned this whole motherfucking hood out
All us niggas acting up
Wild-ass motherfucking adolescents
These niggas ain't even got no childhoods no more
How the fuck can you have a childhood
and you have a funeral every mahfucking weekend
And you mahfuckaz talking about peace?
Nigga, it ain't no motherfucking peace
You ain't seen the news motherfucker?
You ain't heard?
Little babies getting smoked
Mahfuckaz killing there whole family
'Lil kids getting thrown off buildings
Mahfuckaz gettin abused
Peace!? Nigga is you out your fucking mind??
Fuck peace!
We can't never have peace, till you motherfuckers clean up this mess you made
'Til you fucking clean up the dirt you dropped
'Till WE get a piece
Fuck peace
Westside."
- Tupac Shakur
Nice remix of the original "Never B Peace" (samples "When I'm Gone" by Eminem)
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