| Tupac Shakur – Lil Homies Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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In brief, this song is about the upcoming generation of "lil homies" that Tupac has inspired, and what the future might hold for them. Tupac is the featured rapper on this track, performing all three verses. The track has a relaxed flow and is really easy to listen to, which I'm sure you already know. From the starting in the lines of the opening chorus, his combined lyrics and tone (laughter) show that he's some what proud of the fact that others have come to revere the young street soldiers that he's inspired, "Everybody duckin, my fuckin lil homies". In the first verse it sounds like he's kinda nostalgically recalling the times that he had growing up on the streets; and he does this by talking about what the latest generation of homies might do (or have already done) on the streets. However, in the second verse he cautions about the possible consequences associated with the life that they are living, including how it might hurt their loved ones, "Would your heart feel pain, watchin as your mother cries?". At the end of the second verse he goes into a hypothetical about one of the lil homies losing it and committing a shooting. In the background between verses we hear prisoners intimidating the young kid as he arrives to jail, "Juvenile delinquent-ass motherfuckers...Under eighteen.. better protect that shit!". In the final verse, he starts by vocalizing the thoughts of the young man in jail, who is reflecting on his crime and contemplating whether if living the gangster life that landed him here was really worth it in retrospect. We learn that the stimulus for the shooting was gang a order. The way in which he contemplates his bleak future, "Is there a heaven for a G?" allows us to infer that the act might not have been carried with his full heart and understanding of the repercussions. Given the turmoil that he has experienced thus far in his life, he questions whether if even death itself might finally bring him peace. Tupac then interjects his narration of the young man's thoughts with his own words and opinion on the matter: death might be better than a life of endless unrest (call it hell) on the streets. To justify his conclusion, he describes the streets as a perpetuating "cycle" of turmoil. Members of his Tupac's own crew, "call them Outlawz" are named in the closing lines of the verse, which concludes with them essentially "tellin the world to be equipped" for next violent generation of up and coming of lil homies. |
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