Outlawz (also The Outlawz and Outlaw Immortalz) is an American rap group fr… Read Full Bio ↴Outlawz (also The Outlawz and Outlaw Immortalz) is an American rap group from Essex County, New Jersey, founded by Tupac Shakur in late 1995 after his release from prison. Collectively, they are probably best known for appearing in the video for, and rapping on "Hit 'Em Up".
Outlaw is an acronym for Operating Under Thug Laws As Warriors. In the Earlier years of the Outlawz they were known as Dramacydal. Dramacydal first appeared on the 2Pac's 1995 Me Against the World album, the Outlawz were on the title track "Me Against The World" & "Outlaw". Dramacydal was composed of:
* K-Dog - Later name changed to Kastro
* Young Hollywood - Later name changed to Yaki Kadafi
* Big Malcolm - Later name changed to E.D.I. Mean
When he signed to Death Row upon his release from prison, Shakur recruited his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur and Big Syke. Bruce Washington and Mutah Beale were also added, and together they formed the original lineup, which debuted on 2Pac's multi-platinum smash All Eyez on Me , on the song "When We Ride ". Other times members of the Outlawz appear on the record, they are still credited as "Dramacydal".
The idea behind the group was for each member to have a rap name coinciding with the names of various tyrants or enemies of America, past and present.
* Tupac Shakur, stage name 2Pac, was the leader of the group, and gave himself the title of Makaveli after Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli; his was the only pseudonym which wasn't taken from a dictator, though Machiavelli was a philosopher for dictatorship.
* Yaki Kadafi, Real name Yafeu Fula, Godbrother and childhood friend of 2Pac, was given the name Yaki Kadafi after Lybian Colonel Gadaffi.
* Kastro, Real name Katari Cox, Cousin of 2Pac, was given the alias Kastro after Cuban president Fidel Castro.
* E.D.I. Mean, Real Name Malcolm Greenridge, was given the alias E.D.I. Mean after Ugandian president Idi Amin.
* Hussein Fatal, Real Name Bruce Washington, Introduced to 2pac by childhood friend Yaki Kadafi, given the name Hussein Fatal after former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
* Napoleon, Real Name Mutah Beale, Childhood friend of Kadafi, was given the name Napoleon after French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
* Mussolini, Real name Tyruss Himes. Previously known as Big Syke. Was in 2Pac's first group, Thug Life. Joined the Outlawz under the alias Mussolini, after former Italian president Benito Mussolini.
* Komani, Real name Mopreme Shakur. Tupac's stepbrother and previously in 2Pac's first group, Thug Life. Joined the Outlawz under the alias Komani, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
* Young Noble, Last official member.
Outlaw is an acronym for Operating Under Thug Laws As Warriors. In the Earlier years of the Outlawz they were known as Dramacydal. Dramacydal first appeared on the 2Pac's 1995 Me Against the World album, the Outlawz were on the title track "Me Against The World" & "Outlaw". Dramacydal was composed of:
* K-Dog - Later name changed to Kastro
* Young Hollywood - Later name changed to Yaki Kadafi
* Big Malcolm - Later name changed to E.D.I. Mean
When he signed to Death Row upon his release from prison, Shakur recruited his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur and Big Syke. Bruce Washington and Mutah Beale were also added, and together they formed the original lineup, which debuted on 2Pac's multi-platinum smash All Eyez on Me , on the song "When We Ride ". Other times members of the Outlawz appear on the record, they are still credited as "Dramacydal".
The idea behind the group was for each member to have a rap name coinciding with the names of various tyrants or enemies of America, past and present.
* Tupac Shakur, stage name 2Pac, was the leader of the group, and gave himself the title of Makaveli after Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli; his was the only pseudonym which wasn't taken from a dictator, though Machiavelli was a philosopher for dictatorship.
* Yaki Kadafi, Real name Yafeu Fula, Godbrother and childhood friend of 2Pac, was given the name Yaki Kadafi after Lybian Colonel Gadaffi.
* Kastro, Real name Katari Cox, Cousin of 2Pac, was given the alias Kastro after Cuban president Fidel Castro.
* E.D.I. Mean, Real Name Malcolm Greenridge, was given the alias E.D.I. Mean after Ugandian president Idi Amin.
* Hussein Fatal, Real Name Bruce Washington, Introduced to 2pac by childhood friend Yaki Kadafi, given the name Hussein Fatal after former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
* Napoleon, Real Name Mutah Beale, Childhood friend of Kadafi, was given the name Napoleon after French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
* Mussolini, Real name Tyruss Himes. Previously known as Big Syke. Was in 2Pac's first group, Thug Life. Joined the Outlawz under the alias Mussolini, after former Italian president Benito Mussolini.
* Komani, Real name Mopreme Shakur. Tupac's stepbrother and previously in 2Pac's first group, Thug Life. Joined the Outlawz under the alias Komani, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
* Young Noble, Last official member.
Black Jesus
2Pac & The Outlawz Lyrics
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Searchin' for Black Jesus
Oh yeah, sportin' jewels and shit
Yaknahmean? (You can be Christian)
Straight tatted up
(Baptist, Jehovah Witness) No doubt
(Islamic) No doubt (Doesn't matter to me
I'm a thug)
(Thugs, we praise Black Jesus, all day)
Young Kadafi in this bitch, set it off, nigga
We believed in you for everything you do
Just wanna let you know how we feel
Black Jesus
I do my shootings on a knob
Prayin' to God for my squad
Stuck in a nightmare, hopin' he might care
Though times is hard, up against all odds
I play my cards like I'm jailin'
Shots hittin' up my spot
Like midnight rains hailin'
Got me bailin' to stash more green guys
Ain't tryin' to be trapped on no block
Slangin' them rocks like bean pies
Brainstorm on the beginnin'
Wonder how shit like the Qu'ran
And the Bible was written what is religion?
God's words or a curse like crack?
Shai tan's way of gettin' us back
Or just another one of my Black Jesus' traps
Who's got the heart to stand beside me?
I feel my enemies creepin' up in silence
Dark prayers
Scream violence - demons all around me
Can't even bend my knees just
A lost cloud Black Jesus
Give me a reason to survive
In this earthly hell
'Cause I swear, they tryin' to break my well
I'm on the edge lookin' down
At this bottomless pit
Will it matter if I cease
To exist? Black Jesus
All hail, the pressure no endeavor can fail
Submissive souls turn to hoes
When exposed to jail
In times of war we need somebody raw
Rally the troops
Like a saint that we can trust
To help to carry us through
Black Jesus, hahahaha
He's like a saint that we can trust
To help to carry us through black Jesus
Stick-ups, rob past niggas
With trigger hiccups
Bodybag you punk pickups when these niggas
Go put they shit up
Nine-and-a half out of ten
Shorty be twistin' they wrists in cuffs
And for hustlin'
Go ride on the block with cop Glocks bustin'
They thinkin' that it's funny
To kill for real
Plus gettin' twenty 20 bills
Twenty minutes makin' money still
Patrollers be rollin' tryna hold
Us and haunt us all swooped up and on us
'cause we groupin' up on corners
My Black easy Jesus, please somebody feed us
I'm shootin'
Startin' a revolution with my kids
My cell block, whatever, held rock but never
Too close to the sword, he
Got jail dropped forever, black Jesus
To this clique I'm dedicated
Criminal orientated
An Outlaw initiated, blazed and faded
Made for terror
Major league niggas pray together
Bitches in they grave while my
Real niggas play together
We die clutchin' glasses
Filled with liquor bomblastic
Cremated, last wish is niggas smoke my ashes
High sigh why die wishin'
Hopin' for possibilities
I'll mob on, while they copy me sloppily
Cops patrol projects
Hate the people livin' in them
I was born an inmate
Waitin' to escape the prison
Went to church but don't understand it
They underhanded
God gave me these commandments
The world is scandalous
Blast 'til they holy high
Baptize they evil minds
Wise, no longer blinded, watch me shine
Trick
Which one of y'all wanna feel the degrees?
Bitches freeze facin' Black Jesus
All hail, the pressure no endeavor can fail
Submissive souls turn to hoes
When exposed to jail
In times of war we need somebody raw
Rally the troops
Like a saint that we can trust
To help to carry us through black Jesus
Some say, one day some day, some how
Some way we gon' fail
Either six ditches or twelve
Just stick us and leave us in jail
Oh well, I bail, blazed out drunk as hell
Waitin' to fade, 'cause Black Jesus see
Just how this world treat His seeds
His young
Beat us 'til we dumb for fun, why run
When the outcome don’t do me
Justice in the long run
So I say, "Fuck this whole world, bitch
" breathless
Time is tickin', our minds clickin'
'til we blackout
Goin' all out, overboard route for clout
And Black Jesus come and save our
Seeds 'cause we need you
All play by the same to see us, Black Jesus
We believed in you for everything you do
Just wanna let you know how we feel
Black Jesus we believed in you
For everything you do
Just wanna let you know what you mean
Black Jesus we believed in you
For everything that you do
Just wanna let you know how we feel
Black Jesus
Oh yeah, sportin' jewels and shit
Yaknahmean? (You can be Christian)
Straight tatted up
(Baptist, Jehovah Witness) No doubt
(Islamic) No doubt (Doesn't matter to me
I'm a thug)
(Thugs, we praise Black Jesus, all day)
We believed in you for everything you do
Just wanna let you know how we feel
Black Jesus
I do my shootings on a knob
Prayin' to God for my squad
Stuck in a nightmare, hopin' he might care
Though times is hard, up against all odds
I play my cards like I'm jailin'
Shots hittin' up my spot
Like midnight rains hailin'
Got me bailin' to stash more green guys
Ain't tryin' to be trapped on no block
Slangin' them rocks like bean pies
Brainstorm on the beginnin'
Wonder how shit like the Qu'ran
And the Bible was written what is religion?
God's words or a curse like crack?
Shai tan's way of gettin' us back
Or just another one of my Black Jesus' traps
Who's got the heart to stand beside me?
I feel my enemies creepin' up in silence
Dark prayers
Scream violence - demons all around me
Can't even bend my knees just
A lost cloud Black Jesus
Give me a reason to survive
In this earthly hell
'Cause I swear, they tryin' to break my well
I'm on the edge lookin' down
At this bottomless pit
Will it matter if I cease
To exist? Black Jesus
All hail, the pressure no endeavor can fail
Submissive souls turn to hoes
When exposed to jail
In times of war we need somebody raw
Rally the troops
Like a saint that we can trust
To help to carry us through
Black Jesus, hahahaha
He's like a saint that we can trust
To help to carry us through black Jesus
Stick-ups, rob past niggas
With trigger hiccups
Bodybag you punk pickups when these niggas
Go put they shit up
Nine-and-a half out of ten
Shorty be twistin' they wrists in cuffs
And for hustlin'
Go ride on the block with cop Glocks bustin'
They thinkin' that it's funny
To kill for real
Plus gettin' twenty 20 bills
Twenty minutes makin' money still
Patrollers be rollin' tryna hold
Us and haunt us all swooped up and on us
'cause we groupin' up on corners
My Black easy Jesus, please somebody feed us
I'm shootin'
Startin' a revolution with my kids
My cell block, whatever, held rock but never
Too close to the sword, he
Got jail dropped forever, black Jesus
To this clique I'm dedicated
Criminal orientated
An Outlaw initiated, blazed and faded
Made for terror
Major league niggas pray together
Bitches in they grave while my
Real niggas play together
We die clutchin' glasses
Filled with liquor bomblastic
Cremated, last wish is niggas smoke my ashes
High sigh why die wishin'
Hopin' for possibilities
I'll mob on, while they copy me sloppily
Cops patrol projects
Hate the people livin' in them
I was born an inmate
Waitin' to escape the prison
Went to church but don't understand it
They underhanded
God gave me these commandments
The world is scandalous
Blast 'til they holy high
Baptize they evil minds
Wise, no longer blinded, watch me shine
Trick
Which one of y'all wanna feel the degrees?
Bitches freeze facin' Black Jesus
All hail, the pressure no endeavor can fail
Submissive souls turn to hoes
When exposed to jail
In times of war we need somebody raw
Rally the troops
Like a saint that we can trust
To help to carry us through black Jesus
Some say, one day some day, some how
Some way we gon' fail
Either six ditches or twelve
Just stick us and leave us in jail
Oh well, I bail, blazed out drunk as hell
Waitin' to fade, 'cause Black Jesus see
Just how this world treat His seeds
His young
Beat us 'til we dumb for fun, why run
When the outcome don’t do me
Justice in the long run
So I say, "Fuck this whole world, bitch
" breathless
Time is tickin', our minds clickin'
'til we blackout
Goin' all out, overboard route for clout
And Black Jesus come and save our
Seeds 'cause we need you
All play by the same to see us, Black Jesus
We believed in you for everything you do
Just wanna let you know how we feel
Black Jesus we believed in you
For everything you do
Just wanna let you know what you mean
Black Jesus we believed in you
For everything that you do
Just wanna let you know how we feel
Black Jesus
The lyrics to "Black Jesus" by 2Pac & The Outlawz depict the struggle and hardships faced by individuals living in marginalized communities, particularly those involved in gang life. The song starts with a search for a higher power, with references to various religious affiliations. However, the singer acknowledges that being a thug, it doesn't matter what religion he follows because they all praise a "Black Jesus," symbolizing a figure who understands and guides them.
Throughout the song, the lyrics delve into the challenges faced by these individuals, such as violence, incarceration, and the constant threat of death. The artists express their frustrations with the unjust treatment they face from society, the police, and the world at large. They call upon Black Jesus as a symbol of resilience and hope, someone who can carry them through their struggles and give them a reason to survive.
The lyrics also touch upon themes of loyalty, camaraderie, and the bond shared among the members of this community. They support each other and pray together, finding solace and strength in their unity. Despite the odds stacked against them, they persevere, refusing to let the world break them. Black Jesus represents their unwavering faith and belief in a better future.
Overall, "Black Jesus" is a powerful and introspective track that sheds light on the experiences and emotions of those living in marginalized communities. It explores the complexities of identity, faith, and the resilience needed to navigate a world that often seems stacked against them.
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