If you’re not cheering for me, for what I’m doing, don’t cheer for me. Don’t cheer cause you think I’m cute, you know what I’m saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I’m doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

Shakur rejects shallow, celebrity-style admiration and demands solidarity grounded in principles and actions. The line draws a sharp boundary between being “liked” for image (“cause you think I’m cute”) and being supported for political and personal commitments (“what I stand for”). His provocative insistence that people should “cheer louder” if he goes to jail reframes incarceration not as shame but as evidence of conflict with an unjust system—echoing a long tradition of activists treating punishment as a badge of resistance. The quote also anticipates the volatility of his public life: it asks fans to stay loyal when consequences arrive, and to value the message over the messenger’s marketable persona.