Rapper Tupac Shakur once invoked Donald Trump’s name to address the wealth gap in America long before the billionaire mogul revealed his presidential aspirations.
Shakur’s epic rant came in a 1992 interview with MTV, four years before he was killed in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting.
“If you want to be successful, if you want to be like Trump, [it’s] gimme, gimme, gimme. Push, push, push, push,” he said about what it takes to get ahead in the U.S. “Step, step, step. Crush, crush, crush. That’s how it all is, it’s like nobody ever stops.”
He quickly brought race in the conversation, saying African-Americans have to do more than say “slavery was bad” and “bad whitey” in order to make any lasting changes.
“Everybody’s smart enough to know that we’ve been slighted, and we want ours,” he continued. “And I don’t mean 40 acres and a mule, because we’re past that. But we need help.”
Shakur said he felt “guilty” walking past those less fortunate than him, despite not being as wealthy as someone like Trump.
“If I have $3,000 dollars in my pocket, I feel like it’s wrong to give that person a quarter or a dollar,” he said. “Can you imagine someone [having] $32 million and this person has nothing? And you can sleep?”
Trump, the GOP front-runner for president, claims to be worth $10 billion, though Forbes estimates his worth to be closer to $4.5 billion.
