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Tupac Discusses Donald Trump in Unaired MTV Clip

The late rapper was way before his time. 
Tupac Discusses Donald Trump in Unaired MTV Clip
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By Sydney Scott · Updated October 27, 2020
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Tupac will always be remembered as not only one of the greatest musicians of all time, but a voice against inequality, poverty, and wealth distribution in America. In an unaired clip from MTV News, Tupac discusses all those things and calls out Donald Trump in the process.

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The 1992 clip shows Pac in a studio passionately discussing how the world views wealth and how they achieve it. 

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“This world is such a ‘gimme, gimme, gimme — everybody back off.’ You’re taught that from school, everywhere. Big business: if you wanna be successful, if you wanna be like Trump ‘gimme, gimme, gimme, push, push, push, push’, step, step, step, step, crush, crush, crush, crush’, that’s how it all is.”

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