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MTV unearthed a 1992 interview they had with Tupac Shakur in which he talked about wealthy Americans like Donald Trump who give very little, if anything back to those in need, no matter their race.
"I feel like it's too much money here. Nobody should be hitting the lotto for $36 million and there's people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real," 2Pac said. "There's no way Michael Jackson ... or whatever Jackson should have (massive wealth) and then there's people starving. There's no way that these people should have planes and these {other) people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants."
"What do you say to people that say, 'Well. they earned it ... now you go out and earn yours,'" the interviewer asks.
"If they earned it then I think that that's good and I think that they deserve it. Even if if you earned it you still owe," Shakur responds. "Look at me, I don't have that mega-money, but I feel guilty walking by somebody [in need]. I gotta give 'em some mail. And if I know I got $3000 in my pocket, I feel like it's wrong to give that person a quarter or a dollar. It's wrong. Only you know what you got in your pocket. No matter what they do. If they take it and drink it, they take it and drink it. But, I mean you got," he continued. "We all know how hard it is and it's not about if you're good or you're bad. Sense it's not about if you're good or you're bad. Just because he don't got doesn't mean he was bad. Or don't mean that he's a criminal. It don't mean he's crazy or a drug addict, or none of that. It just means he don't got. Can you imagine somebody having $32 million and this person has nothing. And you can sleep?"
Watch the full interview (https://youtu.be/GL-ZoNhUFmc) below.
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