2Pac - Still I Rise (Original)

[@thatcostasound]

Tupac opening verse on this record… Is arguably his best verse ever and one of my personal favorite verses in rap history…

[@therealm3818]

Agreed...

[@tionwatson597]

Love it

[@AllenHolmes-zi8bj]

He probably wrote the verse in 5 minutes too 🐐

[@TT93169]

The last one is amazing too... I was born not to make it, but i did

[@bjackson3148]

Facts!!!

[@amarulovecraft4750]

That verse should be archived in the Smithsonian museum. Poetry.

[@Nirvana5]

as a matter of fact

[@originalbastaard8057]

For Real!

[@clos1203]

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.

[@b.leegal751]

On God

[@RNicolasRuvalcaba]

If this was the only verse that Pac ever wrote he would still be a lyrical genius.

[@JS-no7zq]

If you can’t feel that first verse, your not alive. PAC hit hard.

[@melvinhaynes1322]

96 big body sitting on chrome R.I.P big syke

[@richardwere4487]

RIP Pac, Syke, Strech, Fatal, Yak, Johnny J

[@seksi.superstar]

@@richardwere4487 fuck stretch

[@richardwere4487]

@@seksi.superstar That beef was squashed!

[@ianbarksdale7726]

Erie AF Everybody on this song except the little kid is R.i.Paradise 🤔💯

[@UptownKash]

First heard this in 97...felt like Pac was speaking from the grave

[@Satyred]

Yeee brotha keep this alive We all here to rise together

[@michaelwalker5385]

Mane Pac it don't stop...RIP Big Dog

[@nickytommymancinelli8066]

He had mad unreleased content

[@jakekit2727]

Still hits hard years later.The definition of a goat leaving a legacy beyond your time.

[@donaldburch2219]

Hussein Fatals verse is unbelievable! His flow, his delivery and His Lyrics. The Outlaws are all Dope. But Hussein just rips it

[@emerancacapitao7602]

Yes yes ♥️♥️

[@j2323j]

All his features are dope

[@micsmith672]

Pac's verse on this is my fav of all time

[@tredwes7483]

Same

[@exodusexodus7608]

Same

[@waltt6710]

This is the original version off that Makaveli II bootleg joint. Only the truest PAC fans know about this!

[@cedbigby1126]

Walt T believe me we know👍

[@shawnwieber7877]

TRU ❗🎤💯😎

[@moneymon133]

Facts

[@540flips]

Walt T makaveli 2 was the shit .. hit me up 2🔥

[@authentic1933]

Show you right

[@JohnDoe-fc7hr]

That first verse leveled the rap game. Straight flame 🔥🔥🔥 There is no one greater than Pac

[@OG-COLD-N-SOLID]

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.

[@tangent1439]

The greatest rapper of all time no doubt....2023 and I am still banging it

[@emmanuelowino9626]

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.

[@mr.international23]

I didn’t even live that life but he makes me think I did . Powerful Tupac

[@TheCena353]

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

[@roscoedavis2593]

Get a man's props give the man his props

[@MrBigpapi85]

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!

[@neerajsaini603]

Hell yea I feel u baby!

[@mr.international23]

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

[@stevenforte4159]

Real talk bro

[@Satyred]

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

[@lamontphillips1677]

Makaveli the don

[@ottererg587]

❤️💯💪🏾

[@tankwhite.7036]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@oldfart9153]

Same homie, I was struggling hard on drugs but pacs music got me through the bullshit

[@bossdonwaveify]

Pac's verse in this is ridiculous. Paints a picture that hits heavy, fucking legendary.

[@pfunk781]

Takes you to a whole another place ! Powerful words

[@mrreeg]

'96 Big Body sittin' on chrome!!

[@diegoleblond268]

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

[@MicSwiftTheSoundProvider]

yea this is the original, before fuck heds starting fucking with pac's music.

[@etchosts8162]

Damn right fam!

[@sharifgrays1501]

Damm they're all dead!! But a classic Rip Johnny J, Kadafi, Fatal, Pac!💯

[@ayandamadywede2901]

And Big Syke

[@FirstAndFramerates]

😢

[@JohnBoyBeattie]

Fatal absolutely killed this, “worldwide supremacy, all y’all remember me...” 🔥

[@michaelgant584]

🔥 🔥....damn!! Why Fatal?

[@Makaveli_1971]

Crazy flow damn

[@steveharrison9377]

"Police be clockin me so I be dippin slippin sloppily.."

[@ottererg587]

Sipping vodka G, and ditching clips on private property🔥🤙

[@koolmoe1971]

@@ottererg587 Vodka B

[@tredwes7483]

One of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard🔥 pac will forever be remembered ‼️

[@El_terrible1985]

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

[@marlo700]

Classic!!!!

[@martin2140ct]

Marlo 700 Stay on rotation

[@minoemann8808]

May 28 2020 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 y’all brothers stay strong out here. This shit hits different right about now.

[@strayjones458]

You already know homie 💯

[@TXboi98]

Blazing up with a j a good friend of mine just passed away today gonna jam this for him 🙏🏼

[@bigrock213]

Yeah bruh

[@nonchalantyrn]

PAC on the mic was a gift 🔥

[@AaronDood]

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.

[@christopherrosen3757]

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

[@kennethharrisonii4681]

I remember listening to this song on the underground Pac albums back in the late 90’s. Classic!!!!

[@montezmccarter7887]

This track is all DEAD LEGENDS!! Rip!!

[@ottererg587]

Rest Up Tupac, Big Syke, Johnny J, Hussein Fatal and Yaki Khadafi

[@RollingCinemar]

Fatal killed this Even pac knew it Fatal was straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jerodowhipple8115]

This version they should've released. Been bumping this version since July of 98

[@tredwes7483]

Fax just found this in 2020 got all my homies bumping it that’s fosho ‼️

[@lisafan6365]

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....

[@mr.international23]

Fax

[@junioferreira4529]

Respect from Brazil , Love Tupac the best ❤❤

[@leirikal]

jayz has nothing on this man

[@YossiA13]

This beat 🔥

[@VLCZO]

THE KING OF RAP OF ALL TIME LONG RIP

[@jameswright4595]

Classic with Johnny J on the beat. One of my favorite Pac songs

[@w-carlos-w]

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

[@MrGenoboss]

Pac just summed up the black experience in one verse

[@fredmiller4110]

You ain't gotta be black to feel that verse

[@jaymoeayit]

@@fredmiller4110 say that 1 more time brother. You damn straight.. 💙👊🏼

[@MrGenoboss]

@@fredmiller4110 true

[@clos1203]

​@@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

[@rorojenkins4937]

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.

[@peterrakoma7613]

Fatal was underrated, to me he was the best amongst the outlaws. Listen to reincarnation, made niggaz, hit em up and dumpin

[@chandler5312]

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.

[@echavezg138]

@@chandler5312 Yes my man...The Yaki's Metric Technique...was unique....die so young...damn...

[@nujerz_]

@@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

[@ambersart5883]

Kastro had flow, too. But Fatal N Felony do it for me

[@sz5971]

Big up NJ! Through all the good n bad times ... Still I Rise!

[@JosephO75]

this is my shit since middle school

[@tredwes7483]

Fax bro fr

[@LoneshootaBooter]

This classic right here bring back so much memories smh 🔥🔥🔥 RIP 👑 2024 Still bumping this shit

[@supersugarcrisp5996]

Amazing vibe "' 2pac still in 2022 😎👍🏽

[@jamaaldavis3222]

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!

[@lonewolf3828]

This must be one of the realest things ever spitted. I mean true real words in the form of poetry. Props to the outlaws of course!

[@Chsrlesm]

Absolutely.!! I had the cd. They have different versions but this is the original

[@CaliPaliGuy]

One of the greatest songs, the beat just Sends me to doing alternate reality of contemplation, west side!!!!

[@540flips]

November 22 2019 .. STILL JAMMING

[@xoxoleonoeloxox]

540flips 3/25/20 and forever

[@ducksoon9981]

Nobody makes songs like this but 2PAC! MAKAVELI R I P REAL LIFE STRUGGLES IN SONGS... TO UPLIFT YOU UP! STILL I RISE....

[@K.Sovereignson]

All the contributors to this song have left us 🙏🏾💯

[@Mikerangel-u8r]

Nothing but the original very nice, Tupac the star 🌟 from above (all eyes on me) much love ❤️ Iowa,

[@americansantacruz6080]

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..:

[@robonrich6549]

Absolute Masterpiece 💯

[@th_smiti160]

The best version, nostalgic Memories 😔🌅 the time flies 🌎 rest peace pac 🕊️

[@tearorangi_____]

Wow wish PAC sung the whole thing tbh his voice is mesmerising

[@axelfoley4439]

1st verse was 💣💥...imagine the 2nd or even 3rd verse...STRAIGHT 🔥 🚒 🚑 🚓🚔

[@gmoneyslotmachinevideos]

Me too, I never cared for the other guy that sang in this song. Tupac is the absolute greatest of all time!

[@jonnellsmith-tyler5328]

I’ve been looking for some of these versions for decades

[@fmfdfirefighter7827]

Fatel’s verse was sick!!!

[@peterrakoma7613]

I feel as though Fatal was underrated. Listen to reincarnation, made niggaz, hit em up and dumpin

[@JohnBoyBeattie]

@@peterrakoma7613 Fatal was criminally underrated. He was by far the best Outlaw after Pac. Head and shoulders above the rest.

[@nujerz_]

@@JohnBoyBeattie facts...and its not even close

[@JohnBoyBeattie]

@@nujerz_ Amen, brother!

[@Baby_Suge]

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.

[@MichaelDominguez25]

I heard this in 97 on a bootleg straight 🔥

[@naynayapril]

CLASSIC JERZEEEE

[@benjaminrippel4829]

This song brought back the pure eccentricity of hip hop from coast to coast. Fact.

[@Kevinguth]

I remember this version so much better than the album version just like the original version of black Jesus 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@adamkumi7122]

Pac killed this shit 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ericpaulson8213]

Thanks to pac made I trough the 90s!still I rise in 2022

[@Mistah-Lokee]

Rest in Peace Makaveli,Kadafi,Fatal,Big Syke,Johnny j We still listening🙏 🕊

[@jit_cool_grewal]

Masterpiece 🔥

[@teambattlefronttb9000]

I was born not to make it! The tribulations of a ghetto kid still i rise!! Still i rise!!

[@lamontphillips1677]

This my shit I love this song it motivates me for some reason

[@SpankyDizzleD]

In the deep dark clouds of the projects, aint no sunshine, no sunny days and we only play sometimes

[@mr.international23]

Deep

[@beverlymahaley6234]

TRUTH.😊

[@ambertanner3681]

Thank you god the almighty for my life. The air I breath and my body and momma ❤

[@desronbishop9927]

This that Realness!💯❤️💪🏿! Ma Fav Mc! R.I.P PAC!💪🏿💯.......

[@alphonsuschatembwa5583]

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

[@mr.international23]

Love my pac fans ! We the best !

[@abdouze3889]

Diserve 1BN views !! People dont like real rap

[@patrickbates6701]

PAC ain’t a rapper he’s a soul speaker 🔊

[@bigcav925]

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"

[@Diwie8]

The OG versions of the songs on the album got a whole different feel.

[@DXVI9]

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.

[@Sdcitywalksd48]

THIS IS MY FAV BERN SONG!! and i found out my fav rapper did the origianl holy shit !!!

[@MrBizzym14]

2023 aint no sunshine still!

[@mikecama5]

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.

[@Satyred]

I believe you homie..... Sometimes you just dont give a fuck no more I feelz

[@holesking]

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.

[@mikeltsmith]

Yes, had this in the early 2000's. Only original Makaveli will do!✊🏿💯

[@jaythompson8061]

Pac verse was 🔥 but Fatal & Kadafi be killing shit too

[@jackiehendersonjr5731]

Yes agree

[@SRT92]

It's the acoustics that gets me in this song yo 😂

[@Mebliss]

Magical..simple 👌🏾

[@blackjesuz8597]

THIS SHIT ON LOOP🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@gregthomas9gt]

Hardest 🔥

[@COLOMBYACOLO]

🎵2PAC🎵MUSIC🎵 🎵C🎵O🎵L🎵O🎵

[@kylecollins3777]

Listened to this so many times on bootleg. I still hear the DJ tags at certain spots in the song in my head. “Mutha Fu*kin Express!”

[@igg3937]

Kinda peak Pac here like. A bit like '94 era but with more maturity. Really smooth and just flows off the tongue.

[@vintagedaz]

94 & 96 was his best era tbh I felt like that Death Row kinda messed up everything

[@kodaccollins4805]

Use to love going to the music store buying the unreleased Makaveli tapes..Die Hard

[@Tricolorrr533]

shit man thats why i dont listen to a new pac song everyday, theres no way u cant like it, i prefer to listen to a pac song which is new for me, for like a month, u know but mostly when i listen to a pac song i didnt know before it makes me think and everything

[@marvinmonroe9490]

When i first heard this back in 96 or 97. I thought automatically. 2Pac was talking about a 1996 Mercedes Benz S 500.

[@DEVULBOY]

whoever owns death row should release all these original versions as a collection or something

[@MR-qy3ry]

Johnny J's beats tho!

[@echavezg138]

the best....

[@timothycummins6425]

💯💯💯

[@jimjones4533]

Sept 13 2020 Revenue Tha Ru was here... Love u Pac..

[@shawneybird]

Damn this dude is a genius

[@marcoperdomo283]

I was born not to make it but I did, indeed I did it tnx to him love you my nigga!

[@marcoperdomo283]

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

[@davehernandez4678]

Hits in the heart

[@KPthePM]

2023 still I rise

[@barryozark692]

2025

[@jasonfalcon1025]

I miss Pac…..he was the realist….he got me through hard times