Tupac Talks Donald Trump & Greed in America in 1992 Interview | MTV News - YouTube

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- This world is such a,
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and when I say this world I mean it,
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I don't mean in ideal sense,
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I mean in everyday,
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every little thing you do.
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It's such a gimme gimme gimme!
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Everybody back off,
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you know everybody's taught that from school.
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Everywhere, big business, you want to
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be successful, you want to be like Trump?
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Gimme gimme gimme!
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Push push push push!
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Step step step!
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Crush crush crush!
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That's how it all is, it's like
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nobody ever stops.
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I feel like, instead of us just being like
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"Slavery's bad, slavery's bad, bad whitey, bad whitey!"
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I mean, let's stop that.
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Everybody's smart enough to know that we've been slighted.
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and we want ours.
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I don't mean by ours, 40 acres and mule
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because we passed that.
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But we need help, I mean for us to be on our own two feet,
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us meaning youth, or us meaning black people,
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whatever you want to take it for,
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for us to be on our own two feet we do need help.
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We have been here, we have been a good friend.
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If you want to make it a relationship type thing,
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we have been there, and now we deserve our payback.
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It's like you got a friend that
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you don't never look out for.
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You know, you now dressed up in jewels,
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America's got jewels, they got paid and everything,
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lending money to everybody except us.
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And it's like everybody need a little help
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on their way to being, you know, self reliant.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's the whole thing about the album,
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about the Special Olympics,
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everybody need a little something to be independent.
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No independent persons just grew up,
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and was born independent.
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You worked, and you learned team work,
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and you learned cooperation, and unity,
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and struggle, and then you became independent.
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We have to teach that, and instill that.
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Why is it that they want to do that?
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I mean if this is truly a melting pot,
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and a country where we care about,
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and Lady Liberty got her hand like this,
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she really love us then we need to be like that.
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It needs to be the black kids,
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and if there's a white person who got money,
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then he need to help'em.
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He need to help black kids, Mexican kids,
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Korean kids, whatever.
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But they need to be real, and they need to be before we all
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die, and then you say "I made a mistake,
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we should have game them some money.
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We really should have helped these folks.".
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It's going to be too late, you know what I'm saying?
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Then that's when you gotta pay your own karma.
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And that's what God make you punish,
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when God punishes you, because I feel like
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there's too much money here.
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I mean nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million,
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and we got people starving in the streets.
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That is not idealistic, that's just real.
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That is stupid.
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There is no way Michael Jackson should have,
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or whoever Jackson, should have a million, thousand,
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triple billion dollars and then there's people starving.
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There's no way, there's no way!
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That these people should own planes,
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and there are people that don't have houses,
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apartments, shacks, drawers, pants.
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- [Interviewer] Certain people will say,
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well, they earned it., now you go out
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and you earn it for yourself.
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- If they earned it, I think that that's good,
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I think they deserve it.,
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but even if you earned it you still owe.
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Cause look at me, I don't have that mega money,
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but I feel guilty walking by somebody,
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I got to give him some mail.
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And if I know I got $3,000 in my pocket I feel like
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it's wrong to give that person a quarter,
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or a dollar, it's wrong.
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Only you know what you got in your pocket,
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and that's wrong.
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No matter what they do,
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they take it and drink it then they
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take it and drink it.
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But I mean you got, you understand?
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And we all know how hard it is, and it's not about
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if you're good, or you bad.
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So since it's not about if you're good, or you bad,
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we know that because he don't got don't mean he's bad.
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Or don't mean he's a criminal, don't mean he's crazy,
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or a drug addict or none of that.
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It just means he don't got.
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Ain't it bad you got, I mean can you imagine
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somebody having 32 million dollars?
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32!
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32 million dollars, and this person has nothing.
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And you can sleep?
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You can still go to the movies?
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These are the type of people that get humanitarian awards.
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Millionaires, how can they be humanitarians
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by the fact that they're millionaires,
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and there's so many poor people, shows how
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inhumane they are.
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You know what I'm saying, and that bugs me.
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Not saying that I'm never going to be rich,
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it's a struggle and I think everybody deserve.
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And I think there's a way to pay these people,
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I think there is a way,
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it just takes it to be revoluntionary.
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And it takes to do something out of the ordinary,
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you know what I'm saying?
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I think if we just said,
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okay I got an idea,
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no more porno buildings,
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you know what I'm saying, lets build houses.
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Or no more polo games, let's build houses for poor people.
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Or look, okay, I know you're rich,
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I know you got 40 billion dollars,
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but can you just keep it to one house?
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You only need one house.
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And if you only got two kids,
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can you just keep it to two rooms?
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I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there's
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somebody with no room.
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It just don't make sense to me, it don't.
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And then these people celebrate Christmas,
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they got big trees, huge trees, all the little trimmings,
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everybody got gifts, and there's somebody starving.
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And they having a white Christmas,
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they having a great Christmas,
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eggnog and the whole nine.
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That's not fair to me.