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"Thugs Get Lonely Too" is a song by rapper Tupac Shakur featuring Nate Dogg. The song was released as a 12" promo single for his 2004 posthumous album Loyal to the Game.The song was also used as the b-side to the album's lead single "Ghetto Gospel".
In the song, 2Pac raps about his paranoia and feeling he is under surveillance by the police and rival gangsters, [3] as well as being willing to live the life as a "thug nigga" and "boss player". [4] The song contains a sample of Linda Clifford's "Never Gonna Stop", originally recorded by Exile. [5]
Big Syke was a Crips gang member and Macadoshis was a drug dealer during the 1990s. Tupac, Randy "Stretch" Walker and Princess Mel formed Thug Life in 1992 with Tyruss "Little Psycho" Himes. [3] They recorded a song also titled "Thug Life". Soon Little Psycho joined the group, under the name Syke. Later Macadoshis and The Rated R joined the group.
Many of the song's lyrics were reused in 2Pac's 1992 single "Changes" . Rapper Nas interpolated "I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto" in the song "Black President" from his untitled 2008 album . The line "And though it seems heaven sent/We ain't ready to have a black president" is used repeatedly as the song's chorus.
The video contains interviews of both Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. It is the only song from the album to feature a music video. The video version mutes all language, violence and drug references, even Biggie's comment about two cops being shot (the radio version only censors all profanity except the word "bitches" in 2Pac's verse). In the video ...
The group, started by American rapper 2Pac, comprised 2Pac, his stepbrother Mopreme Shakur, and Stretch, who was heavily involved in 2Pac's previous two albums, Big Syke, The Rated R, and Macadoshis. The album features guest appearances by Y.N.V. and Nate Dogg and production by Thug Music, comprising 2Pac and Stretch, Stretch himself, Professor ...
Tupac died in hospital six days later at the age of 25. His death has sparked multiple conspiracy theories, one of which involves his friend-turned-rival, Notorious B.I.G., with whom Tupac had a ...
The music video begins with 2Pac speaking alongside the chorus, and then begins his verse in alternating scenes, first in prison, being followed by a guard (with the rest of Thug Life tagging along right behind 2Pac), followed by a scene of him behind holographic bars (depicting that he's in a cell), and then outside in his neighborhood.