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a quote from  Khalil Harris in chapter 1 of the book about the meaning of "THUG LIFE" :

"Listen! The Hate U-the letter U-Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody. T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out. Get it?"

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But, from where does the phrase originally come from ? 

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But, from where does the phrase originally come from ? 

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The origin of this term is Tupac Amaru Shakur and it refers to the hard live that one fights through, even if they don't have much.

THUG LIFE was also the name of an American hip-hop band, that included  2Pac and other rappers like Big Syke, Kato, Macadoshis, Mopreme Shakur, Sketch and The Rated R.

They released their album Thug Life: Volume 1 in 1994.

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The sixteen-year-old black teenager Starr Carter attends a party in her neighborhood, called  "Garden Heights" with a childhood friend. At the party she runs into Khalil Harris, her childhood best friend, whom she hasn't seen in a long time. Khalil offers Starr to take her home with his car as gunshots interrupt the party. On their way, a white police officer with the badge number One-Fifteen confronts and pulls them over. One-Fifteen orders Khalil to get out of the car and to stay where he is. As the officer goes back to his patrol car Khalil opens the car door and is being shot by One-Fifteen. A while later Starr and her mother go to the police station to testify Khalil´s shooting but then they realize that the police is more interested if he was a troublemaker and had drugs with him, instead of the murder. The news that One-Fifteen is not prosecuted leads to protest in Garden Heights. Furthermore Starr does an interview with a major television network about the case with Khalil, After Starr´s testimony in front of the grand jury, it is decided to not indict One-Fifteen. Therefore Starr joins another protest for racial justice and leads a chant in front of the protest with a megaphone. She continues fighting for justice on behalf of all black people, who are killed by the police.

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Starr Carter

-sixteen-year-old black teenager
- friends with Khalil and the witness of his death
-lives in black neighborhood "Garden Heights" but attempts school with mostly white people
-fights for racial justice and promises to never stay silent again

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Khalil Harris

- black teenager
-Starr´s childhood best friend
-lives in "Garden Heights"
-sells drugs to get some money for his sick grandma and to payoff his mothers debt
- is shot & killed by white police officer
-murder is the reason for the protests against racial injustice throughout the community

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"keep ya head up"
With this song 2Pac spoke to black women and defended them from within a genre that was and still very much is a man’s game.Black women are so often stereotyped, and "scapegoated" in hip-hop and in pop culture in general, but 2Pac embraced the strength and importance of black women.
music video:
https://youtu.be/XW--IGAfeas
Lyrics:

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2Pac may have been a gangsta, but he had feelings too! This is a feminist anthem from Pac, with references to pro-choice politics and what one might call “rape culture”. In a 1995

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This clip includes the protest scene for racial justice and is specified on Khalils death.
Starr holds a speech about it.

https://youtu.be/xd_1W2f4Rso