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(Inserts cassette tape) Interviewer: What do you feel when you hear a record like 2Pac's new one? Kendrick: Pac's loud, man Interviewer: Right, but don't you feel like that creates.. uh.. tension between East and West? He's talking about killing people; "I had sex with your wife"... Kendrick: I talk about it, too. I talk about murder; I talk about violence; I talk about all of that. But, not to glorify it. To educate you on it; to know that it's real (Kendrick talking over instrumental:) Fifth-teen, um, le-let's go to thirteen Hmm, walking from home Police pull up on the side of you "Ay, you look like so-and-so" "I'm not so-and-so" "You are so-and-so" "Get in the car and let's take this ride" "Get out the car; you're not so-and-so; we don't need you" That's one of the stories (Compton, California) Compton, California for you