What the fuck are yall listening to to be saying to this? I think people saying "Pac wasn't a lyricist" are stricly basing it on punchlines like Ripp said. Because when you listen to his music, he's up there in just about every other lyrical category (Storytelling, Vocabulary, Depth, etc.)
The preacher want me buried why? Cause I know he a liar
Have you ever seen a crackhead? That's eternal fire
Why you got these kids minds, thinkin that they evil?
While the preacher gettin richer you say honor God's people
Should we cry when the Pope die? my request
We should cry if they cried when we buried Malcolm X
Mama tell me am I wrong, is God just another cop
waitin to beat my ass if I don't go pop?
Memories of a past time, givin up cash
to the leaders, knowin damn well they ain't gonna feed us
In my brain how can you explain, time in B.C.
It's hard enough to live now, in these times of greed
They say Jesus is a kind man
Well he should understand times in this crime land
My Thug nation, Do what you gotta do but know you gotta change
Try to find a way to make it out the game
I leave this and hope God can see my heart is pure
Is heaven just another door?
I leave this and hope God see my heart is pure
Is heaven just another door? - "Blasphemy"
Menacing methods, label me a lethal weapon
Making niggas die witnessing breathless imperfections
Can you picture my specific plan
to be the man in this wicked land, underhanded hits are planned
Scams are plotted over grams of rock
Outlaws, mothafuckers die by the random shots
We all die in the end, so revenge I swore
I was all about my ends, fuck friends and foes
Me, a born leader, never leave the block without my my heater
got me a dog named him my Bitch Nigga Eater
What could they do to me and live to brag?
Shit them niggas that shot me are still terrified I'll get their ass
How can I show you how I feel inside?
We Outlawz, mothafuck can't kill my pride
Niggas talk a lot of shit but that's after I'm gone
Cause they fear me in physical form let it be known I'm troublesome- "Troublesome 96"
Somebody wake me I'm dreamin, I started as a seed the semen
Swimmin upstream, planted in the womb while screamin
on the top, was my pops, my momma screamin stop
From a single drop, this is what they got
Not to disrespect my peoples but my poppa was a loser
Only plan he had for momma was to fuck her and abuse her
Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me
Stranded on welfare, another broken family
Now what was I to be, a product of this heated passion
Momma got pregnant, and poppa got a piece of ass
Look how it began, nobody gave a fuck about me
Pistol in my hand, this cruel world can do without me
How can I survive? Got me askin white Jesus
will a nigga live or die, cause the Lord can't see us
in the deep dark clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine
No sunny days and we only played sometimes
When everybody's sleepin
I open my window jump to the streets and get to creepin
I can live or die, hope I get some money 'fore I'm gone
I'm only 19, I'm tryin to hustle on my own
on the spot where everybody and they pops tryin to slang rocks
I'd rather go to college, but this is where the game stops
Don't get it wrong cause it's always on, from dusk to dawn
You can buy rocks glocks or a Heroin bong
You can ask my man Ishmael Reed
Keep my nine heater all the time this is how we grind
Meet up at the cemetary then get smoked out, pass the weed nigga
That Hennessey'll keep me keyed nigga
Everywhere I go niggaz holla at me, "Keep it real G"
And my reply till they kill me
Act up if you feel me, I was born not to make it but I did
The tribulations of a ghetto kid, still I rise- "Still I Rise"
How can a nigga have dropped verses like THIS and not be considered lyrical to some of yall?