“Our future is our confidence and self-esteem” Tupac’s answer to “sorry I missed you, I’ve been tied up in meetings”. “Just got the message you’ve been calling all week / Been out here hustling on these streets, ain’t had a chance to speak” Useful for failed projects, missed deadlines, basically anything for which you’re trying to shed responsibility. “Don’t blame me / I was given this world I didn’t make it” It also sort of sounds like an HR manager talking about the new ergonomic chairs and hot-desking system. A profound critique of race relations in the US, and a stirring indictment of injustice. “Let’s change the way we eat / Let’s change the way we live / And let’s change the way we treat each other”Ĭhanges is perhaps Tupac’s most elegant track. “Picture me inside the misery of poverty / No man alive has ever witnessed struggles I survived”Ī helpful negotiating counter to the above. Tupac was talking about his mother, but this line works equally well for managers who are unable or unwilling to offer above-minimum wage increases to their staff. “There’s no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated” It seems not long at all in Foxhoven’s case, but who hasn’t wondered aloud to colleagues, often and insecurely, about your intra-office legacy? No? OK. Here are 10 lyrics and quotes from his oeuvre that won’t – hopefully – get you fired. While it might seem incongruous for a white bureaucrat in his 60s to stan the 90s hip-hop legend, a closer look at Tupac’s work reveals a social poet whose work is remarkably compatible with the everyday office grind.
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