dress right for and you say wooden literally so this is good for him okay my name is Tupac Shakur and I attend Tama PI high school and I'm 17 years old and it's like 17 such a weird age sensor and the middle age you're not 18 yet you're older than six teams but I give this advice it's like learning stage for me well 18 will bring lots of responsibilities that don't want but it'll bring respect that I feel like that's the only way I can get it you know I try to be as mature as I can be and demand it when I can get it but 18 is like you're an adult you like today when I had to sign the release form I felt so bad cuz I couldn't sign it myself had to go get my mother's and all right but I'm 18 is it's just a scientists way of saying that you're ready but seventeen like I think I'm ready now as ready as I'm going to be in this world but so it's okay I guess seventeen design should be more responsibilities or they have much more value than adults place on well well the way my mother brought me up is no lies no you know total truth everything is real in society you know everything if something's going wrong in the house I know everything so I was it was like I was given the responsibility before I wanted it and so now I can't really differentiate what great responsibility is because I've had it for so long you know so she taught me how to be ready for it and so that's good and I think it's good because I know that and it taught me that when you get out there the responsibility is staggering and I'm ready I'm going to be a little more ready than someone who's grown up and Disney World you know what Santa Claus is coming and so you know I think I'm growing up good as in all sense of the word I think I'm growing up and learning about responsibilities everything hardest thing about being my age is proven to society that I understand what's going on like we not everybody but frequently teenagers are stereotyped in being loud music loving girl chasing car wanting not caring about the world cokeheads you drinking coke and smoking and being drug addicts and and I mean in some ways I mean I chase the girls and want the car and loud music but I like to think of ourselves really being socially aware and not just socially aware as being trendy you know being peace not that I really think that um that teenagers they got a lot of responsibilities on a lot of burdens because in fact we're not I mean we're given a horrible world we're given the gift that we're getting when we got to take over is horrible they left us they leave in this world and bad shape for us to fix up so I think that we deserve a lot of respect because you know in the 60s you change the line those teenagers were given respect because they changed a lot and he did a lot we're given no respect and we have to do a lot I mean to where I had no secret where the world is bad [ __ ] so we have to duel I've got to do a lot of good things I think we deserve a little bit more respect see you this scared that this scared of watching us grow up this scared that when we get the power or responsibilities that we won't be able to handle it and it's scared that that uh well I don't think in this generation I don't think that a lot of adults put enough into their children I'm glad my mother did but I don't think that a lot of children growing up lost in the sauce and I think that they're scared because they're realizing it now that oh we didn't really not in teaching this I teach them that really learn it look at looking unsafe sex and drugs that you could tell if you look at the statistics they were there staggering again you know and so I think they're scared because they're realizing that they goofed they really messed up and then also that they fear teenagers are angry at least this generation seems a little angry to me and little bit more rebellious and uninvolved so they're scared because they're realizing that you know what's going to happen when you know these people in power but also just because it's human nature to be scared to watch a child grow up and you don't want to give him that [Music] um I was funny being a kid like my little cousin Yoji he's three and everything to him is happy the only thing that makes him unhappy is when you turn when things are over when you turn something up and when the television goes off when it's time to go to bed or when he has to come in the house everything is over that's bad you know and when you're an adult when something is over that's like it's the opposite you know what it's over is good you know just a lot more for it it's over you know vacation it's over oh god she's out of the house my children in college it's over oh my god and so it's that difference but until you see things so great if the world can what happened is that adults complicate things and children don't you the simple as simple as this the sky is blue and adults want to go to skies blue why is it blue because birds and bees and everything wasn't meant to be analyzed and that's what our problems came in I think and that's where I think kids are happier kids are definitely happier and more relaxed and adults know actually I think it's well okay my mother for my mother's point well if you grew up happy too happy you know like in fairy tale land not fairy tale I mean if you grew up where you know every Christmas you got a president every birthday you got a present and every holiday was a holiday and everything was peachy of your parents took care everything you just grew up I don't think that prepares you for the world you know my mother had a really bad childhood and my father had a bad childhood and I had about childhood but I loved my childhood even though it was bad I loved it I feel like it's taught me so much and I feel like nothing can faze me you know nothing is war nothing can surprise me it might set me back but only momentarily only to spring back and I think it's helped me um to learn it really did help me learn since my mother had a bad childhood she knows the importance of being honest and the importance of facing each situation as it comes and not dealing in fairytale land being realistic about the problem and analyzing it and solving it see what you can do to solve it so if you have a happy childhood you tend to want your child to have a happy childhood so you tend to want to keep the bad things out and I don't think that's good because you don't prepare them for the world right we have to be realistic telling but don't get the wrong idea I feel like I'm being gloomy I don't mean just be like damn it is bad out there but I mean when the good thing is coming they aren't gonna come and everybody knows that good things are gonna come and you're gonna see them for yourself you're gonna see you think good but it's hard to see the bad things and everybody wants to shield the bad things and that's where it gets complicated and it gets real frightened that's when everybody gets surprised and oh my god I'm committing suicide that's too much overwhelming it but does it if you know about it won't be so overwhelming no sighs I think about that oh is is that you know like if you're lost if you are lost in the wilderness and you have a guide then it's not like being lost it's like learning new things as you go through so when you finally get through you forgot what you were going to you just want to talk about the path that you just went and that's how I feel like like life my child I was just totally lost at first because okay I gotta go to get it my mother was a black panther and she was really involved in the movement you know just black people bettering themselves and things like that my father was a hustler street hustler you know I think you know sold drugs and everything and how did it get together was beyond me but he just saw her as a woman doing something like you know but so my mother and father both had bad childhoods I never knew who my father was I met him but he died and I was horrible but got over that my mother took actually it's like she actually did take me through life you know when I would go when I discovers at first I rebelled against her because she was in the movement and we never spent time together because she was always speaking and going to colleges and everything and then after that was over it was more time spent with me and we both just like you're my mother and she's like you're my son and what do we do so then she was really close with me and really strict almost but now I can see how I paid off because like I can talk to mother about drugs I could talk about sex anything I can ask you anything and bring it up and she'll go okay well this isn't you to dinner and I could say mom I'm really curious about this drug and she'll go I did it and this is what happened and I don't think you should no I don't think so because I speak to my friends I speak to them and they the baffled they're like they could sit they like my friends can call my mother my first name that's a small thing but it's a big thing to them because they could just comment I was a go how you doing payin just what happened in school because he speaks to them she gives teenagers the respect they deserve unless they show that they're not worried in that respect and they like that they really do like that and they react well that's why I had that philosophy about respect because um my mother can talk I mean she's totally brilliant totally understanding and caring and she's human I mean she has mistakes and we have our little test but I understand him so much I mean she'll be wrong a lot and we can talk about it so what a lot of kids can't talk to their parents about drugs because their parents don't trust them to make the decision so they make the decision for them and a lot of kids can't talk to their parents about sex because they don't trust them anything always talking about sex is out there doing it so they don't trust them and that you know so plus their parents just like beet-red soon as you bring up the word fornication but my mother's totally just it was I was scared at first but I just bought it one day we spent I was talking about drug sex in society and 60s and 70s and 30s and everything and we just get along really good yeah a really good but but she's still my mother I mean I still like last night I came up with 2:30 and she went can't come on that late anymore hell I guess the weekend we had an argument about that but also things that you know like I mean there's we talk about things you know do you think you should be punished and I explained it to her I really get to talk to her so she's my guy through life so I really enjoy myself but it's just that if everybody doesn't think like I so society I mean poverty is it's no joke being poor and having this philosophy it's worse because no if money was nothing if there was no money and everything depended on your moral standards and the way that you behaved and the way that you treated people we'd be millionaires we'd be rich but since it's not like that then we're stone broke we're just poor because our ideals always getting away since we're not yup-yup people and we're always wait a minute let me think about that then people tend to go nope I guess I don't want you for the job and I guess you just want you know and so that that's the only thing that I'm bitter about it's growing up poor because I missed out on a lot of things still growing up or you know miss out a lot of things and I can't always have what I want or even things that I think I need so I missed a lot of things like that but I know rich people or people just well-off who are lost so I feel like my mother made that made a lot of decisions in her life and that's what we always say um she could have chose to go to college and got a degree in something and right now been well-off but she chose to analyze society and fight and do things better so this is the payoff and she's always tells me that the payoff to her is that me and my sister grew up good and we have good minds and everything and we can we're ready for society but we just didn't have money and we didn't have the things like that so the only bad thing I think is poverty if I hated anything to be that my mother taught me three things respect knowledge search for knowledge it's in a turtle eternal journey that's like my aunt got the line 360 degrees by knowledge always and and she taught me to not be quiet to if there's something my mind speaking that's what god I was a breath she always taught but also to listen and Joe is he told me this little joke that God gave you two ears to listen to one vowel to speak to ears and one mouth common sense one mom you should speak but your souls will listen and that's where the knowledge comes from listening and once you get the nods and you can speak and it helps you so she taught me respect knowledge and understanding mostly you know just listen Allah definitely oh definitely definitely but not being a yup-yup parent might get their people you know just not being oh yes dear I understand yes you can go to the party that doesn't help those produce even worse kids because it produces ambitious but unready children you know and those that have those were martyrs come from you know so I think they should listen but analyze what they're saying just put them just don't push them through the path and don't hold them from going to the path but help them through the path that's what I think should happen almost like my mom because I'm arrogant totally arrogant I agree I have to say like it work I can't hold the job I just quit my job today actually because I wanted to come and do this and it would let me and I felt like was important and it was more important in serving pizza and we had enough people so I felt like since I'm an actor they should understand they should let me do it but they didn't and they're not a cold today we're making me work in a freezer and I'm really not one to be disrespected and I felt like that was just respectful because I asked to go you know so I quit and he told me I couldn't quit and that even made me hyper and I'm arrogant so when you told me I couldn't quit and we had all these customers I chose that time to jump on the soapbox grab my leather jacket light a cigarette in front of him smoke and leave in the middle of a rush so that was natural I that's arrogance at the top that's not think I'm most like my mother and she likes that she'll see it in me and know it and we clash a lot because I'm arrogant she's arrogant and you should see us when we get knowledge attitude moves it's like husband and wife but it's brother and sister but it's father mother it's really father mother and son she's my father and mother so um yeah we get no tips and everything like it's good business almost like unlike my mother because um crazy question um well since my mother went through the 60s and everything she's more of a let me think about this first then do it because I know about how that happens and I'm more like of if I get if you get me hyped I'm a dangerous weapon if I'm hyper I mean even for not like violet like but if I'm hyper to do for my bit of run basketball and I have to go to work I'll be there late if I'm hyper to do something I can't concentrate and my mother can really concentrate and like in school what as much as I talk about needing education everything I goof in school every year it's just I can't help but I like popularity and I like being around people and I just like you know talk and everything my mother's more about get this done and then you get so that's why we're not alike you know and I trust people more and I'm more open and since she's been through those things she's more wary of trusting people but she does trust people but I'm just totally just like okay you're my friend now you know but we're more alike than we are unlike that's really weird well I hope I don't get in trouble but um school is I think that we got so caught up in school being a tradition that we stopped using as a learning tool which it should be like up to this day I mean school should be I think there should be a different curriculum in each and every like neighborhood you know because I'm going to Tam telepon high and I'm learning about the basics but they're not basic for me you know and it's like they're not to get us ready for today's world then I that's not helping it's just what they took so it's what we're going to take you know and that's why the streets of Tori and um the school is really important reading writing arithmetic but I think after you learn reading writing arithmetic that's it but what they tend to do is teach you reading writing arithmetic then teach you reading writing arithmetic again then again then again just making it harder and harder just to keep you busy and that's why I think they messed up there should be a class or drugs it should be a class on sex education a real sex education class not just pictures and diaphragms and unlogical terms and things like that there should be a drug class it should be sex education there should be a class on scams there should be a class on religious cults it should be a class or and police brutality there should be a class on apartheid that should be a class on racism in America it should be a class oh and why people are hungry but they're not there classes on Jim Kelly physical education let's learn volleyball because one day we're going to notice is there classes like algebra where I've yet to go to store it and said can I have X y plus two and give my y change back thank you you know I think you could let me out do I've lived I've lived alone by myself and the things that did I that helped me with the things I learned from our month and from the streets and reading has helped me I mean schools taught me reading which is I love reading writing and arithmetic that's it like foreign languages I think they're important but I don't think it should be required because it actually should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double-talk politicians double-talk not teaching how to understand French and Spanish and German when am I going to Germany I can't afford to pay my rent in America how am I going to Germany you know this is do i this is this what I mean by the basics are not the basics for me and I think that it should be like college you can go and take the classes that you want and I think that like elementary school should be that way where they give you the classes to take for the basics and then junior high school and high school should be the classes that you need in order to choose your path definitely not it's just a place you go during the day to keep you busy while they're at work are there work that's exactly what it is yeah actually been working already you know like I've been going to school during the day did I work eight hours at the pizza place then go home and if I'm isn't it like 40-hour week that's what adults work right and that's what I'm working for hours a week I'm still not getting a respect that adults get you know but I'm not only keep saying like I'm worried about respect and fame and honor I'm just saying that I mean ancient civilizations have survived without going to schools like this I mean they've learned from their parishes we're not being taught to deal with the world as it is we're being taught to deal with this fairyland which we're not even living in anymore it's sad because I'm telling you and it should not be me telling you it should be common knowledge aren't they wondering why um death rates are going up and suicide is going up and drugged up you aren't they wondering don't they understand that more people are coming more kids are being handed crack than they're being handed diplomas I mean it shouldn't suck I mean like okay in school we're learning to analyze and then well I learned it now they should relearn it I think adults should go through school again you know I think that I think that rich people should live like poor people and poor people should live like rich people and it should change every week and we'll have the best rounded people will be able to deal with people I mean and I mean everywhere look it's called civilizations look how we grew you know and I think we need to learn from our mistakes and stop just going through motions which we're doing now is like we're waiting for some big button to push something like that what can you do when you grow up okay then you make it there well as it is and it's honestly honestly I feel this way but society is like a mate I mean it's like you know those little things they have for the mice where they go do around the circle there's little blocks for it and everything well societies like that they'll let you go as far as you want but as soon as you start asking too many questions and you're ready to change boom their blocker come and for me and hold it doesn't start anything but for me since I'm living in a slum --is-- area and I'm black mines will come through being a statistic you know I'll get caught up in all of this and one day I'll be my friends and let's go out party you'll have a car let's steal a car okay let's just borrow a car we'll steal a car and I'll go to jail for 16 years and come out and be bitter knowing all that is saying all of this but be bitter you know and it should be I mean like like the past elections watching Jessie Jackson running and watching Dukakis run those two people Jesse Jackson and Dukakis to people who are thought we're gonna there it is I said all right finally we're gonna get a better America but what happened Bush won I couldn't believe it because every time I ask people who would you have voted for they're like those Dukakis but on a bush win I keep wondering and then that this makes me rebelle more against society because it's supposed to represent the people I don't want Bush and government I spent eight years of my 17 years on this earth under Republicans under Ronald Reagan under an ex actor who lies to the people who steals money and who's done nothing at all for me and I don't think Bush is a bad person or a bad president because from the upper class he's a perfect president and that's how society is built the upper class running while we talk about it I mean the middle class and lower class we talk about it and for the working class which is lost we're going through the motions with a quitter worker beats and they get to live like royalty yeah I think so um but they'll even even with children in their classes like um even at em there there's there's the lower Marin City class there's the low um white class the lower white class there's the middle-class white class and the middle class black class and at the middle class um I mean as their upper class white and upper class black and it's that's a shame that it has to be cut in so many pieces because what it all boils down to just one piece of money that I can't like how can this is a big question no-one's ever answered this is staggering how can Reagan live in a White House which has a lot of rooms and there'd be homelessness and he's talking about helping homelessness this is what I mean about practicality under than someone homeless in Washington DC if there's homelessness and he has the White House which has a thousand rooms why can't he take some of them people up the street and put him in his White House because he doesn't want to get dirty the White House would be a little tainted and when his rich people from Jamaica and everything comes to see him they'll be oh these people you know and that's dumb he wants to build houses and everything let him stand on what house all those rooms are not being used then he'll have people from the streets to help him make with his ideas I mean these people that homeless have done things then Devin been homeless forever they've done things in society they've done things they've had jobs before and they've done things they've worked hard that should be an automatic they get a house somewhere and live comfortably that things they can do you know and I think that's wrong I think that's really bad very interesting very insightful but it's also like what giving you let last year you were here yeah now last night was in Baltimore year before that I was in I spent three years in Baltimore my high school years going to the School of Performing Arts then before that I was in New York that's where I grew up that was my total growing up part we moved out of New York because um all it is because of my mother's choices you know and she couldn't keep it she couldn't keep her job because of her choices because it was to mother yeah no it was she was calm now I mean it was totally calm but it was like they figured out who she was and she couldn't keep a job that should be legal so she lost a job and of course we were like stranded in New York and yes so we stranded in New York so we moved to UM Baltimore which was total ignorance town to me because okay it was just like I mean and Baltimore it's just ignorant I don't know it gets me upset to talk about it Baltimore has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy the highest rate of AIDS within the black community the highest rate of teens killing teens and highest rate of teenage suicide and the highest rate of blacks killing blacks and Baltimore Maryland and this is where we chose to live so soon as I got there being a person I am I said no no I'm changing this so I started to stop the killing campaign and safe-sex campaign and AIDS prevention campaign and everything and then I came back and I felt like I did a lot of good I did good things and everything came back the second week I was in California I got a call and two of my friends was shot dead and they had two of the friends that they were working with me shot dead in it and it's just like why trying because this is what happens but I still try you know and I came to California to escape that escape that violence that I escaped New York for then I went to Baltimore escaped Baltimore for Canon California come to Marin City and there's skinheads violence there's racial violence which I deplore I and stand racism in any form shape or color I can't stand it so what I did was I talked to talk to people and everything and what happened was Tam is really integrated so there was a party and it just happened it was white girls Friday and everybody goes it doesn't matter and there's there's there's racism but it's not like that you know we understand each other and we chose but we ever talk to each other about it so everybody went to this party and I was working I was gonna go to the party right I think I don't work me and my friends so we're on it we got off work on our way to the party were laughing a joke and just going through and see our friend Jonas who's white and he's telling us um there was a fight at the party I was like what happened he said the skinheads came and told that call to blackie but [ __ ] and made him to say dare to leave and of course it was fight i was like oh my god so we were sitting there but they went home when sitting there talking and everything every my business like this couldn't happen in the 60s you know let's figure out what to do and you just said I know we'll start the Black Panthers again so we started Black Panthers but we're doing it more to fit out our views you know less violent and more silent you know more knowledge to help you know what we really want to do is get the pride back in the black community because I feel like if you can't respect yourself and you can't respect your race and you can't respect another's race and you can't respect you know you just asked to do respect like my mother taught me so what we want what we're doing is starting to buy pads begin in Marin City just getting first teaching pride and then teaching education and then we'll see where it goes from there and also as a defense mechanism for the skinheads because that's wrong and I hate to feel helpless and so skinheads hate black people and I'm going to be that I want to have this vision of just us growing and them decreasing because that's how knowledge works its contagious you know and so if there was warm peace peace wins out so I wanted to be I wanted I just want to form it and let it work and I noticed kids are gonna go like this so and I want to tape you know I just want to learn from our mistakes and I'm talking to a lot of the X members of the Pam Panthers I'm a 60s and helping me because they're less bonnet them you know they've learned so and they did a lot of good things in the past and we can do a lot of good things so since my mother was an expand turn talking to animal pride and a lot of ex-minister defenses and everything so we're going to do a lot good I feel I don't know I know soon as I walk out I go oh god she said that but um just to end the importance of growing up and I mean just growing up in America I loved my childhood but I hated growing up poor and it made me very bitter you know it's like alright now I got a job I had a dog quit now I had a job and just today I got paid and I have money in my pocket that I worked for and that greatest feeling you know that I work well I'm just getting a job and I'm working and everything that feels good but I'm still poor you know my family still forms to live in a poor neighborhood you know I still see people poor I still see things that like society she is this is supposed to be a melting pot but no one's learning from the others mistake and that's where the tragedy comes because if we were all open everything we learn from like a marine city I've seen already deaths I mean just lady slash the man's throat because he's spit on my kids and I've seen teenagers fighting last night over girls and I've seen guys speak to women with this much respect and I deplore that my mother is just totally I grew up my mother raised me so I have this much respect for women and and we I fight often because of that and it gives me a lot of friends I mean I get a lot of friends because but I was soon I get a lot of friends because I have respect for women also respect for women but then like I was I was liking this girl in town and um and I'm extra nice you know extra gentleman I'm actually just like oh you're beautiful and you deserve the best and she told me I was too nice I couldn't believe it it wouldn't work because I was too nice that was the old Touma stabbed in the back so I went to a weaker just going forget it I'm just gonna be like them because they seem to get the girls and Eric they're they call girls the B word you know and it's smack and beaten they're getting girls and I'm going peace and I think you're beautiful and they glow well I can't because he see masculine masculine I mean and with the guys and truck and like yesterday was cursing and I was like don't curse and he got mad at me cuz I told about the curse but what I'm my plan is that if I keep telling girls not to let them call you these names and I keep telling if I keep saying it it's going to catch on it because the girls won't allow them to be their boyfriends they're going to speak to them like that and they're going to want me so in order to not get them to go with me they're gonna have to change that's how I changed so I'll be the scapegoat no problem long as it change it so yeah you know that's so I think it's gonna work I think it work out everything but I always want to make a book out of my life like a fairy tale raised raised by the Black Panthers and strike out 教我英语用这个对话，可以把对话分割成几个部分，中英对比，然后每一个段落后面跟提取的词组句，一定要完整，比如一次完成不了我就叫你休息下再继续好吧