https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnmLl6Fm1MM


I was watching an interview of 'pac and when it came to this part, I was amazed. Thought I should share.

I found a transcription for those who cannot use the link

Where do You stand On Religion?


I'm the religion that to me is the realist religion there is. I try to pray to God every night unless I pass out. I learned this in jail, I talked to every God there was in jail. I think that if you take one of the "O's" out of "Good" it's "God", if you add a " D " to "Evil", it's the "Devil". I think some cool motherfucker sat down a long time ago and said let's figure out a way to control motherfuckers. That's what they came up with-the bible. Cause if God wrote the bible, I'm sure there would have been a revised copy by now. Cause a lot of shit has changed. I've been looking for this revised copy-I still see that same old copy that we had from then. I'm not disrespecting anyone's religion, please forgive me if it comes off that way, I'm just stating my opinion.

The bible tells us that all these did this because they suffered so much that's what makes them special people. I got shot five times and I got crucified to the media. And I walked through with the thorns on and I had sh1t thrown on me and I had the thief at the top; I told that nigga "I'll be back for you. Trust me, its not supposed to be going down, I'll be back. I'm not saying I'm Jesus but I'm saying we go through that type of thing everyday. We don't part the Red Sea but we walk through the hood without getting shot. We don't turn water to wine but we turn dope fiends and dope heads into productive citizens of society. We turn words into money. What greater gift can there be. So I believe God blesses us, I believe God blesses those that hustle.

Those that use their minds and those that overall are righteous. I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing in my heart is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven. I think heaven is just when you sleep, you sleep with a good conscience-you don't have nightmares. Hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see is all the bleeped up things you did in your life and you just see it over and over again, cause you don't burn. If that's the case, it's hell on earth cause bullets burn. There's people that got burned in fires, does that mean they went to hell already? All that is here. What do you got there that we ain't seen here? What, we're gonna walk around aimlessly like zombies? That's here! You ain't been on the streets lately? Heaven now, look! (referring to his plush apartment) we're sitting up here in the living room-big screen TV- this is heaven, for the moment. Hell is jail I seen that one. Trust me, this is what's real. And all that other sh1t is to control you.

If the churches took half the money that they was making and gave it back to the community, we'd be alright. If they took half the buildings that they use to "praise God" and gave it to motherfuckers who need God, we'd be alright. Have you seen some of these got damn churches lately? There's one's that take up the whole block in New York. There's homeless people out here. Why ain't God lettin' them stay there? Why these niggas got gold ceilings and sh1t? Why God need gold ceilings to talk to me? Why does God need colored windows to talk to me? Why God can't come where I'm at where he sent me? If God wanted to talk to me in a pretty spot like that, why the hell he send me here then. That makes ghetto kids not believe in God. Why? So that's wrong religion-I believe in God, I believe God puts us where ever we want to be at. They didn't make sense that God would put us in the ghetto. That means he wants us to work hard to get up out of here. That means he's testing us even more. That makes sense that if you're good in your heart, you're closer to God but if you're evil than your closer to the devil; that makes sense! I see that everyday all that other spooky shit, don't make sense.

I don't even believe, I'm not dissin' them but I don't believe in the brothers, I've been in jail with 'em and having conversations with brothers; "I'm God, I'm God." You God, open the gate for me. You know far the sun is and how far the moon is, how the hell do I pop this fuckin' gate? And get me free and up outta here. Then I'll be a Five Percenter for life.

http://www.2pac2k.de/religion.html

jayriginal:
The bible tells us that all these did this because they suffered so much that's what makes them special people. I got shot five times and I got crucified to the media. And I walked through with the thorns on and I had sh1t thrown on me and I had the thief at the top; I told that nigga "I'll be back for you. Trust me, its not supposed to be going down, I'll be back. I'm not saying I'm Jesus but I'm saying we go through that type of thing everyday. We don't part the Red Sea but we walk through the hood without getting shot. We don't turn water to wine but we turn dope fiends and dope heads into productive citizens of society. We turn words into money. What greater gift can there be. So I believe God blesses us, I believe God blesses those that hustle.

jayriginal:
But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing in my heart is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven. I think heaven is just when you sleep, you sleep with a good conscience-you don't have nightmares. Hell is when you sleep, the last thing you see is all the bleeped up things you did in your life and you just see it over and over again, cause you don't burn. If that's the case, it's hell on earth cause bullets burn.

jayriginal:
If the churches took half the money that they was making and gave it back to the community, we'd be alright. If they took half the buildings that they use to "praise God" and gave it to motherfuckers who need God, we'd be alright. Have you seen some of these got damn churches lately? There's one's that take up the whole block in New York. There's homeless people out here. Why ain't God lettin' them stay there? Why these niggas got gold ceilings and sh1t? Why God need gold ceilings to talk to me? Why does God need colored windows to talk to me? Why God can't come where I'm at where he sent me? If God wanted to talk to me in a pretty spot like that, why the hell he send me here then. That makes ghetto kids not believe in God. Why?

Deep.

word!

My Brothers always argue that Pac stands toe to toe with Fela and Bob Marley in depth of thought.

I always said that was disrespectful to Fela and Bob.

Not with "U claim to be a nigga and i f**cked your wife" and all that.

Nevertheless, he was young, very young still.

Obviously a profound mind at that age.

Lemme state what I think Tupac meant and I think. The concept of the Devil is to have a scapegoat to mock for evil in the world. In truth, both good and evil come from God.

Reason I always dance to his song title 'change'. The guy is real deep

Deep Sight:
My Brothers always argue that Pac stands toe to toe with Fela and Bob Marley in depth of thought.

I always said that was disrespectful to Fela and Bob.

Not with "U claim to be a nigga and i f**cked your wife" and all that.

Nevertheless, he was young, very young still.

Obviously a profound mind at that age.

Indeed! He was 24 at the time of this interview.

You have to take other things into consideration. The environment he lived in surely has its own role to play in his output and much like Fela and Marley, he was a voice for his people.

Uyi Iredia: Lemme state what I think Tupac meant and I think. The concept of the Devil is to have a scapegoat to mock for evil in the world. In truth, both good and evil come from God.

Tupac comes off as a deist or the closest thing to it. He believes in God, but none of that "spooky" sh1t

Another Pac quotable

Its like this, the masses, the hungry people, they outweigh the rich so as long as I appeal to the hungry and the poverty stricken people, its all good. I'mo have a job for life.
Its the rich people who're worried about the food than the poor people.

Everybody knows crime out there, everybody knows what type of situation we in in the streets. All Im doing is showing you and telling you. Why get mad at the brother thats bringing the news? Get mad at the person thats making it happen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMHo2TAxRYo