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The rapper compromises his more dominant bad-boy gangster side to tackle African American social issues in this magnificently brilliant song. In the first couple lines of the song Tupac raps "I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black, my stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch," these lines illustrate how many black people in America live in poverty and are not given as many opportunities to do right so instead they divert to being criminals just to get by. This concept is repeated when he raps "Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares? One less hungry mouth on the welfare." When he raps "Cops give a damn about a negro? Pull the trigger, kill a n*gga, he's a hero," he's touching the controversial topic of how African Americans, more commonly African American males are targeted by the police and if a cop kills a African American male it's not a big deal Spotify