What was 2Pac trying to say with these lyrics?

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This song is GOAT status but I never understood this line

"Cause crime pays and in time you'll find a rhyme'll blaze
You'll feel the fire from the nikkas in my younger days"

Any brehs/brehettes know what he meant? :patrice:
 

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It's fairly simple.


The crime that he did in his younger days allows him to write the blazing rhymes that he's spitting now and get paid, hence "crime pays".

The shyt he's spitting is a reflection of the fire he had in him as a youth, along with young nikkas just like him doing the crimes he was talking about.
 

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It's fairly simple.


The crime that he did in his younger days allows him to write the blazing rhymes that he's spitting now and get paid, hence "crime pays".

The shyt he's spitting is a reflection of the fire he had in him as a youth, along with young nikkas just like him doing the crimes he was talking about.

It all makes sense now :lupe:
 
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