I feel like f--kin’ somebody up, Snoop says after watching old Tupac speech

Snoop was on Ari Melber’s MSNBC interview series Mavericks when Melber played some footage of the late rapper discussing the Black Panther Party.

Tupac, in the footage, talked about how the Black Panther Party helped African Americans in ways that inspired him. Then the footage showed Tupac saying he and his fellow black people were tired of asking to be treated better.

“We was asking with the Panthers; we was asking with the Civil Rights Movement,” Tupac said. “We was asking. Now those people that were asking, they’re all dead and in jail, so now what do you think we’re gonna do? Ask?”

“F--k no,” Snoop immediately responded to Tupac’s words. “Now you get it. Even watching that, my spirit is bubbling right now. Like I feel like f--kin’ somebody up from just hearing that, just because I know it puts me in that era, that zone when our voice didn’t matter back then. Things we were speaking to as far as corruption and violence and all that, they would take it and reverse it back on us as if, ‘No, you got a problem. You’re violent.’

Snoop discusses Tupac (right, in the background) Pulse

America is violent

“No. America’s violent,” the 50-year-old Snoop went on say. “We was peaceful. The Black Panthers was put together to bear arms and do all this peaceful stuff. Y’all came and shot them down and knocked them down, and now we don’t have a voice. And now when we try to speak as rappers, you wanna lock us up and say our music is making people kill each other and this and that, and then we can’t bear arms.”

Snoop added, “All the stuff he was speaking to is happening right now, but this was 25 years ago. If we don’t stand up and make a difference and make a chance, it won’t change. That’s why we do what we do and we movin’ like we movin’ right now.”

Indeed, and Snoop’s response to Tupac’s words show that the latter’s words still have the power move people.