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Taking to Instagram to celebrate Tupac's birthday, Jada shared a video that features a never-before-seen poem written by the late All Eyez On Me rapper. "Tupac Amaru Shakur would have been 50 midnight tonight! As we prepare to celebrate his legacy … let’s remember him for that which we loved most … his way with words. Here are a few you may have never heard before...Happy “you goin’n to be 50 at midnight” Birthday Pac!... I got next."
The poem reads, "Some say nothing gold can last forever / And 2 believe this [I] need no proof / I have witnessed all that was pure in me / And be changed by the evil men can do / The innocence possessed by children / Once lived inside my soul / But surviving years with criminal peers / Has turned my warm heart to cold."
"I used 2 dream and fantasize / But now I'm scared 2 sleep," Tupac's poem continues. "Petrified, not to live or die / But to awaken and still be me / It is true that nothing gold can last / We will all one day see death / When the purest hearts are torn apart / LOST SOULS are all that's left / Down on my knees I beg of God / To save me from this fate / Let me live to see what was gold in me / Before it is all too late."
Pac concluded his letter by writing, "Yours, Tupac."
Rest in peace, Tupac!
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