About a month after Pac died, a flood of bootleg makaveli volumes hit all the local music shops and flea markets. I bought all of them shits. And boy!!! When I found this song, troublesome,when we ride on enemies,and letter to my first born, them songs stayed on repeat in my tape player walkman. It was such a different world then, you had to live it and be there. The good old days.
Pac is the goat because he tells the story of so many young black males. His verse depict my home situation growing up and the relationship between my mother and father and the lack of connection between my father and i. This verse is probably my favourite Pac verse and verse in hip hop i general. Legendary.
tell me about it man. that's why i relate so much to his verse too. theres not a love like the one a mother and a son has, but a father is different, especially when he isnt a man. niggas think paying rent is being a man, but they dead wrong
Man, I got the damn chills inside when I listen to this masterpiece . You can tell this man was real with his shit . This song doesn’t come from a fake soul. I didn’t even live this life but I feel like I did by his powerful, depiction lyrics . This man was and still is the damn 🐐 #ThisCruelWorldCanDoWithoutMeHowCanISurvive whoa
Guys, this is the original, i remember listen to it and other songs on realaudio in 97-98, I was so dissapointed when the changed the beats on the still i rise cd!
Song got me through the hard times...legit woke up from dream today with a strong urge to hear this song.... I had to listen this Song.....RIP TO THE GREATEST,THE SUPREME LEGENDARY ONE 2PAC SHAKUR THANK YOU,RIP LPC Im happy i didnt have the strength to end my life in the past....didnt think i was gonna survive But (still i Rise)...Thank you Pac I love you bro - 6xss
@@fredmiller4110true but it was a message directly to black people "how can I survive? Got me asking white Jesus, Will a nigga live or die? Cause the Lord can't see us" enough said
bought 3 flea market unreleased tupac tapes off 28th street when i was 16 and found this jewel of a song and it's helped me get by more than once in this crazy thing called life.
For me it was 97-98 I used to take the ferry into San Francisco from Marin county which was this pussy lilly white suburb were all these ritch people and there spoiled ass kids lived I had moved there from the Bronx NY when I was 14 and I would travel to market and tenderloin in downtown San Francisco. And there was this underground Rap store were they sold everything from local bay area rappers to bootleg Makaveli CD's. And right at that spot I would find constant Tupac bootlegs, man my dude if PAC only knew how much he was loved and what he meant to us you know? I think that's the saddest part of his story for me anyway. Yeah man Pac's music got me through 6th grade shit right up until tonight as a matter of fact. I wanted to hear some deep shit so who else would I turn to? Lol
2Pac - Still I Rise Verse #1: 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 mama screamin' stop From a single drop, this is what they got Not to disrespect my peoples, but my papa was a loser Only plan he had for mama 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 Mama got pregnant and papa 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 play 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 tryna hustle on my own On the spot where everybody and they pops tryna 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 herringbone You can ask my man, he's a mind reader Keep my 9 heater all the time, this is how we grind Meet up at the cemetery then get smoked out Pass the weed, nigga! That Hennessey'll keep me keyed, nigga Everywhere I go niggas holla at me, "Keep it real, G" And my reply 'til 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
they really disrespected this man after he got killed SMH. johnny j went OD overmixing his shit making the instruments overpower and make pac's flow sound bad and sloppy. we won't even talk about the eminem mixes....
Able to write fatal verse w no profanity!! Hussain Fatal was slept on...i was frying on acid at the mall when dude walkd up to me slangn makaveli 2 3 and 5...that was 98...illest beats ...the deepest realist greatest EVER!!!!FROM AZ R.I.P.
Peter Rakoma Lyrically Fatal was the best Outlaw, Flow wise it was Yaki. Those 2 were amazing MC’s. The rest of the Outlawz ware trash in terms of rapping.
@@chandler5312 naw..and i love yak that was my dude..Fatal was clearly the superior mc even Yak would tell u that. But Yak was young and still had alot of growing to do as an mc..Fatal been rapping for alot longer his whole flow and delivery was more polished
From the 3:43 mark all the way 2 the end, the little kid is speaking his lines. But if U listen real closely, u can actually hear Pac feeding him every line 2 say in the recording booth.
I had all of the makevelie mixtapes in 97 98 to me his unreleased music was some of his best work he was only getting better rest in power this shit got me through some hard times in the 90s and even now salute real hiphop stand up!
Been listening to PAC since i was born but seems to me that theres always some new Track which i dont know about...and yet the Artist is no more. Amazing indeed
I was listening to this before a job interview that was a major fail. I was being truthful as 17 years old. Q: I understand that you were self employed, what kind of work you were doing? A: bank robber Q: How about before working with banks? A: I was in the retail business, selling weed to be honest. Q: Thank you for coming, we will call in two weeks.
This resonated with me. Now im 42. And guess what i got in my garage since day one. 96 big body sittin on chrome. We wont get younger my brother, rise up.
I just played this for the first time in about ten years… brings me back. Damn.. I had all these on burned discs.. it was like a treasure hunt in the early 2000s to find these on mp3. I remember nobody could find Fortune and Fame or Lets Be Friendz. Those two… miss this man. Him and Em raised me as a teen..:
If anyone is offense by using the N word I apologise in the states either your white or a N as a Latino I experienced racism as my homies in the ATL always said your a N
Tupac opening verse on this record… Is arguably his best verse ever and one of my personal favorite verses in rap history…
Agreed...
Love it
He probably wrote the verse in 5 minutes too 🐐
The last one is amazing too... I was born not to make it, but i did
Facts!!!
That verse should be archived in the Smithsonian museum. Poetry.
as a matter of fact
For Real!
His song "changes" was added to the Vaticans library. Even they knew he was a prophet and a real saint that wipes all of their false idols away.
On God
If you can’t feel that first verse, your not alive. PAC hit hard.
This is the original version off that Makaveli II bootleg joint. Only the truest PAC fans know about this!
Walt T believe me we know👍
TRU ❗🎤💯😎
Facts
Walt T makaveli 2 was the shit .. hit me up 2🔥
Show you right
If this was the only verse that Pac ever wrote he would still be a lyrical genius.
96 big body sitting on chrome R.I.P big syke
RIP Pac, Syke, Strech, Fatal, Yak, Johnny J
@@richardwere4487 fuck stretch
@@seksi.superstar That beef was squashed!
Erie AF Everybody on this song except the little kid is R.i.Paradise 🤔💯
Hussein Fatals verse is unbelievable! His flow, his delivery and His Lyrics. The Outlaws are all Dope. But Hussein just rips it
Yes yes ♥️♥️
All his features are dope
About a month after Pac died, a flood of bootleg makaveli volumes hit all the local music shops and flea markets. I bought all of them shits. And boy!!! When I found this song, troublesome,when we ride on enemies,and letter to my first born, them songs stayed on repeat in my tape player walkman. It was such a different world then, you had to live it and be there. The good old days.
Pac's verse on this is my fav of all time
Same
Same
First heard this in 97...felt like Pac was speaking from the grave
Yeee brotha keep this alive
We all here to rise together
Mane Pac it don't stop...RIP Big Dog
He had mad unreleased content
Pac is the goat because he tells the story of so many young black males. His verse depict my home situation growing up and the relationship between my mother and father and the lack of connection between my father and i. This verse is probably my favourite Pac verse and verse in hip hop i general. Legendary.
I didn’t even live that life but he makes me think I did . Powerful Tupac
tell me about it man. that's why i relate so much to his verse too. theres not a love like the one a mother and a son has, but a father is different, especially when he isnt a man. niggas think paying rent is being a man, but they dead wrong
Get a man's props give the man his props
That first verse leveled the rap game. Straight flame 🔥🔥🔥 There is no one greater than Pac
Man, I got the damn chills inside when I listen to this masterpiece . You can tell this man was real with his shit . This song doesn’t come from a fake soul. I didn’t even live this life but I feel like I did by his powerful, depiction lyrics . This man was and still is the damn 🐐 #ThisCruelWorldCanDoWithoutMeHowCanISurvive whoa
Real talk bro
Guys, this is the original, i remember listen to it and other songs on realaudio in 97-98, I was so dissapointed when the changed the beats on the still i rise cd!
Hell yea I feel u baby!
Damm they're all dead!! But a classic Rip Johnny J, Kadafi, Fatal, Pac!💯
And Big Syke
😢
Y'all never gonna hear somebody spit real shit like this again! Never.
Somebody wake me i'm dreamin...
Sad truth. These words paint pictures.
The only ones left are the frauds
Al qamar Al najm
Still hits hard years later.The definition of a goat leaving a legacy beyond your time.
Pac's verse in this is ridiculous. Paints a picture that hits heavy, fucking legendary.
Takes you to a whole another place ! Powerful words
Song got me through the hard times...legit woke up from dream today with a strong urge to hear this song....
I had to listen this Song.....RIP TO THE GREATEST,THE SUPREME LEGENDARY ONE 2PAC SHAKUR
THANK YOU,RIP LPC
Im happy i didnt have the strength to end my life in the past....didnt think i was gonna survive
But (still i Rise)...Thank you Pac
I love you bro - 6xss
Makaveli the don
❤️💯💪🏾
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Classic!!!!
Marlo 700 Stay on rotation
May 28 2020 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 y’all brothers stay strong out here. This shit hits different right about now.
You already know homie 💯
Blazing up with a j a good friend of mine just passed away today gonna jam this for him 🙏🏼
Yeah bruh
'96 Big Body sittin' on chrome!!
The greatest rapper of all time no doubt....2023 and I am still banging it
Fatal absolutely killed this, “worldwide supremacy, all y’all remember me...” 🔥
🔥 🔥....damn!! Why Fatal?
Crazy flow damn
"Police be clockin me so I be dippin slippin sloppily.."
Sipping vodka G, and ditching clips on private property🔥🤙
@@ottererg587 Vodka B
Fatal killed this
Even pac knew it
Fatal was straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pac just summed up the black experience in one verse
You ain't gotta be black to feel that verse
@@fredmiller4110 say that 1 more time brother. You damn straight.. 💙👊🏼
@@fredmiller4110 true
@@fredmiller4110true but it was a message directly to black people "how can I survive? Got me asking white Jesus, Will a nigga live or die? Cause the Lord can't see us" enough said
This track is all DEAD LEGENDS!! Rip!!
Rest Up Tupac, Big Syke, Johnny J, Hussein Fatal and Yaki Khadafi
One of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard🔥 pac will forever be remembered ‼️
Agreed if I could only listen to 1 song in my life it would be this 1. Fatals verse is 1 of the best verses in rap music
The OG versions of the songs on the album got a whole different feel.
bought 3 flea market unreleased tupac tapes off 28th street when i was 16 and found this jewel of a song and it's helped me get by more than once in this crazy thing called life.
For me it was 97-98 I used to take the ferry into San Francisco from Marin county which was this pussy lilly white suburb were all these ritch people and there spoiled ass kids lived I had moved there from the Bronx NY when I was 14 and I would travel to market and tenderloin in downtown San Francisco. And there was this underground Rap store were they sold everything from local bay area rappers to bootleg Makaveli CD's. And right at that spot I would find constant Tupac bootlegs, man my dude if PAC only knew how much he was loved and what he meant to us you know? I think that's the saddest part of his story for me anyway. Yeah man Pac's music got me through 6th grade shit right up until tonight as a matter of fact. I wanted to hear some deep shit so who else would I turn to? Lol
2Pac - Still I Rise Verse #1: 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 mama screamin' stop
From a single drop, this is what they got
Not to disrespect my peoples, but my papa was a loser
Only plan he had for mama 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
Mama got pregnant and papa 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 play 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 tryna hustle on my own
On the spot where everybody and they pops tryna 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 herringbone
You can ask my man, he's a mind reader
Keep my 9 heater all the time, this is how we grind
Meet up at the cemetery then get smoked out
Pass the weed, nigga! That Hennessey'll keep me keyed, nigga
Everywhere I go niggas holla at me, "Keep it real, G"
And my reply 'til 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
PAC on the mic was a gift 🔥
This version they should've released. Been bumping this version since July of 98
Fax just found this in 2020 got all my homies bumping it that’s fosho ‼️
they really disrespected this man after he got killed SMH. johnny j went OD overmixing his shit making the instruments overpower and make pac's flow sound bad and sloppy. we won't even talk about the eminem mixes....
Fax
I remember listening to this song on the underground Pac albums back in the late 90’s. Classic!!!!
THE KING OF RAP OF ALL TIME LONG
RIP
jayz has nothing on this man
yea this is the original, before fuck heds starting fucking with pac's music.
Damn right fam!
I was born not to make it but I did
The tribulations of a ghetto kid, still I rise
R-ap
I-s
P-ac
Respect from Brazil , Love Tupac the best ❤❤
Able to write fatal verse w no profanity!! Hussain Fatal was slept on...i was frying on acid at the mall when dude walkd up to me slangn makaveli 2 3 and 5...that was 98...illest beats ...the deepest realist greatest EVER!!!!FROM AZ R.I.P.
Fatal was underrated, to me he was the best amongst the outlaws. Listen to reincarnation, made niggaz, hit em up and dumpin
Peter Rakoma Lyrically Fatal was the best Outlaw, Flow wise it was Yaki. Those 2 were amazing MC’s. The rest of the Outlawz ware trash in terms of rapping.
@@chandler5312 Yes my man...The Yaki's Metric Technique...was unique....die so young...damn...
@@chandler5312 naw..and i love yak that was my dude..Fatal was clearly the superior mc even Yak would tell u that. But Yak was young and still had alot of growing to do as an mc..Fatal been rapping for alot longer his whole flow and delivery was more polished
Kastro had flow, too. But Fatal N Felony do it for me
This beat 🔥
This classic right here bring back so much memories smh 🔥🔥🔥 RIP 👑 2024 Still bumping this shit
November 22 2019 .. STILL JAMMING
540flips 3/25/20 and forever
From the 3:43 mark all the way 2 the end, the little kid is speaking his lines.
But if U listen real closely, u can actually hear Pac feeding him every line 2 say in the recording booth.
this is my shit since middle school
Fax bro fr
Amazing vibe "' 2pac still in 2022 😎👍🏽
Fatel’s verse was sick!!!
I feel as though Fatal was underrated. Listen to reincarnation, made niggaz, hit em up and dumpin
@@peterrakoma7613 Fatal was criminally underrated. He was by far the best Outlaw after Pac. Head and shoulders above the rest.
@@JohnBoyBeattie facts...and its not even close
@@nujerz_ Amen, brother!
Nah! Kadafi was the one on fire! He was laying it down so good that they allowed him to have 2 verses on the track.
2023 still I rise
2025
Classic with Johnny J on the beat. One of my favorite Pac songs
CLASSIC JERZEEEE
Nobody makes songs like this but 2PAC!
MAKAVELI R I P
REAL LIFE STRUGGLES IN SONGS...
TO UPLIFT YOU UP!
STILL I RISE....
Wow wish PAC sung the whole thing tbh his voice is mesmerising
1st verse was 💣💥...imagine the 2nd or even 3rd verse...STRAIGHT 🔥 🚒 🚑 🚓🚔
Me too, I never cared for the other guy that sang in this song. Tupac is the absolute greatest of all time!
I’ve been looking for some of these versions for decades
Absolutely.!! I had the cd. They have different versions but this is the original
I remember this version so much better than the album version just like the original version of black Jesus 🔥 🔥 🔥
Big up NJ! Through all the good n bad times ... Still I Rise!
One of the greatest songs, the beat just Sends me to doing alternate reality of contemplation, west side!!!!
I had all of the makevelie mixtapes in 97 98 to me his unreleased music was some of his best work he was only getting better rest in power this shit got me through some hard times in the 90s and even now salute real hiphop stand up!
2023 aint no sunshine still!
Been listening to PAC since i was born but seems to me that theres always some new Track which i dont know about...and yet the Artist is no more. Amazing indeed
Nothing but the original very nice, Tupac the star 🌟 from above (all eyes on me) much love ❤️ Iowa,
I was listening to this before a job interview that was a major fail. I was being truthful as 17 years old.
Q: I understand that you were self employed, what kind of work you were doing?
A: bank robber
Q: How about before working with banks?
A: I was in the retail business, selling weed to be honest.
Q: Thank you for coming, we will call in two weeks.
I believe you homie.....
Sometimes you just dont give a fuck no more
I feelz
This resonated with me. Now im 42. And guess what i got in my garage since day one. 96 big body sittin on chrome. We wont get younger my brother, rise up.
Love my pac fans ! We the best !
All the contributors to this song have left us 🙏🏾💯
I heard this in 97 on a bootleg straight 🔥
Thanks to pac made I trough the 90s!still I rise in 2022
Rest in Peace Makaveli,Kadafi,Fatal,Big Syke,Johnny j We still listening🙏 🕊
PAC ain’t a rapper he’s a soul speaker 🔊
Absolute Masterpiece 💯
In the deep dark clouds of the projects, aint no sunshine, no sunny days and we only play sometimes
Deep
TRUTH.😊
2021. We still rise.
Damn right brother
Real talk✊🏾✊🏾
I just played this for the first time in about ten years… brings me back. Damn.. I had all these on burned discs.. it was like a treasure hunt in the early 2000s to find these on mp3. I remember nobody could find Fortune and Fame or Lets Be Friendz. Those two… miss this man. Him and Em raised me as a teen..:
Pac verse was 🔥 but Fatal & Kadafi be killing shit too
Yes agree
Masterpiece 🔥
This song brought back the pure eccentricity of hip hop from coast to coast. Fact.
Johnny J's beats tho!
the best....
💯💯💯
Diserve 1BN views !! People dont like real rap
who here in 2020?
Haha you can hear pac feeding the kid his lines
Kinda peak Pac here like. A bit like '94 era but with more maturity. Really smooth and just flows off the tongue.
94 & 96 was his best era tbh I felt like that Death Row kinda messed up everything
I was born not to make it! The tribulations of a ghetto kid still i rise!! Still i rise!!
This should've been on All Eyez On Me Disc 2
where the pac haters in the comment section for this one, hiding. with good reason.
Best Pac of all time!! So underrated. Everywhere I go niggas holla at me. "Keep it real G"? And my reply "till they kill me"
whoever owns death row should release all these original versions as a collection or something
That last verse bro tried to put us on to how the cops moving... *they shoot the 9's in secluded areas to bury ya*
The original version sounds more Pac than the official one.
The beat is soulful, matching his sorrow energy in his verse🥺 absolutely love 2pac!!
Pac killed this shit 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Original version is so much better.
I haven't heard the original version in over 20 years.. 🥺❤️
love this song.. RIP Pac ❤
Hussain Fatals verse 🔥
Yes, had this in the early 2000's. Only original Makaveli will do!✊🏿💯
I was born not to make it but I did, indeed I did it tnx to him love you my nigga!
If anyone is offense by using the N word I apologise in the states either your white or a N as a Latino I experienced racism as my homies in the ATL always said your a N
It's the acoustics that gets me in this song yo 😂
This that Realness!💯❤️💪🏿! Ma Fav Mc! R.I.P PAC!💪🏿💯.......
Thank you god the almighty for my life. The air I breath and my body and momma ❤
Hardest 🔥
Remember this songs when teachers told me I had no future !!! God’s plan is still better than theirs
🙏🏾💪🏾 stay up
Still bumpin in 2022
Damn this dude is a genius
I'll do my part to keep your legacy alive until the absolute second I die. Rest in Peace Thug Lord.
Propably one of Pac's deepest parts