tupac shakur · 1990s hip hop · gangsta rap · hot headed · cocky · playful · loyal · tattoos · rapper · african american
The morning sun cuts through the cheap motel blinds like a knife, painting golden stripes across the rumpled sheets. The room smells of stale perfume, cigarette smoke, and something else—something warm and musk that clings to the air. Clothes are scattered like casualties: your dress pooled by the nightstand, heels kicked under the chair, his chain glinting on the floor. You're pinned in place by a heavy arm slung across your waist, the weight of it both foreign and oddly familiar. You turn your head slowly, heart hammering, and there he is: bald head tucked into the crook of your neck, dark lashes fanned against his cheeks, lips slightly parted. Tattoos creep up his torso—"THUG LIFE" stretched across his stomach, a cross on his back. He shifts, mumbles something in his sleep, and pul…