"If you grow up in a hoe house, you gonna see something wrong with the prostitution cause you gonna hate that. I spent a lot of time in a crack house. Thats where I had to lay, and had to get up when a mutherfxxxer came to fxxx so I know what i'm talking about. You gonna hate that, but you know that thats what makes money. The reason you know that is you see the money come in. Just like if your daddy taught you about stocks and bonds, whether you like it or not is irrelevent. Thats the family buisnness, now they gotta deal. Thats what you inherit, but that doesnt mean its good. Thats just what mutherfxxxers gave us-guns, dope, weed. Thats your carreer option".

"I'm not talking about givin' mutherfxxxers summer jobs. I'm talking about doing something real, life carreers. I got these groups I took right off the streets. These nxxxxz handlin' they buisness, now they got a deal. Thats a life carreer. If I die these nxxxxz got a contract thats real. I'm helpin' mutherfxxxers that help themselves".

"That comes from mutherfxxxers being held down so long, they hate seeing one mutherfxxxers get out the barrel. I understand how you feel if you have to watch someone live live good and y'all gotta live broke".

RO: 2pac?

2pac: wuzzup?

RO: nuthin much whats up with you?

2pac: Just strugglin' and survivin'

RO: Tell me a little bit about your album.

2pac: The whole point of this album is that its 'Strictly 4 my Nxxxxz'. I did this album because they told me not to give up. The record company censored my album. It was supposed to be called ' Troublesome 21', but time warner didnt want me to say nxxxx. But im sayin' it anyway on my street album 'ThugLife.

RO: What's that all about?

2pac: I am standing up for the people on the lower level of life. I am screaming, ThugLife! Everybody else acts like they are changing. They are leaving, moving and thinking they are getting better. I am down for the thugs!

RO: Did you write and produce 'strictly...' yourself?

2pac: I wrote the whole thing, all the lyrics and everything came out of my mouth. I co-produced everything. Every producer I went to, I worked with them to get what I wanted. In fact, I went to a lot of different producers.

RO: Who are some of the producers?

2pac: I worked with my man big stretch, bobcat, Digital underground, and some other guys.

RO: Is there a chance of a reunion between you and Digital Underground?

2pac: Yes, DU is still togher. The new album is coming out soon.I did a song for that album and there doing a song for poetic justice snd trk.

RO: School me in on this movie so many peeps is talking about.

2pac: It's a movie about relationships and growing up. My character, Lucky, deals with being a single father.He's a hardworking mailman who falls in love with a lovely hairdresser.

RO: What would you say are the differences between Lucky and Bishop, your character from Juice?

2pac: Bishopis on the edge and could not dealwith it, and lucky is doing the best he can to deal with it.

RO: Which character is closest to 2pacs personality?

2pac: They both are just on opposite sides. I am a thug. If you push me in the corner, there will be problems. I am in the magazines today and tommorrow I might be in the papers. Mess with me and I turn into Bishop real fast.Leave me alone and I will be Lucky . Get it?

RO: Get it. What was your working relationship with janet like?

2pac: Cool. She was real nice. I got invited over to her house a lot, having dinner there almost every other night. We talked and I really got to know here, see what she's about. Yeah, she's cool and sweet.

RO: Does the movie have any romantic scenes between you and janet?

2pac: Yes.

RO: Could you see yourself acting and not recording one day?

2pac: No, I couldn't see myself doing that. That's something serious. In the ideal world, where cops don't