8th track of 2pac’s posthumous album “Still I Rise” released under Tupac’s mother’s label “Amaru” also representing “Death Row” and “Interscope”.

Hustling is slang word and means to do anything you can do to make money.
The song reflects the conflict between 2 sides of 2pac – one side that wants to quit the lifestyle he’s living, considering it being past and asking for forgiveness and the other side that keeps living the lifestyle and becomes more and more brutal and heartless.

Hell might be prison, or oppression, or poverty or anything that makes people to hustle.
Tupac believed that “God blesses those who hustle, those who use their mind and overall are righteous”. But no matter what you do and no matter if you’re blessed or not, it’s still hell for hustler, because hustling itself means you have no choice but to do whatever it takes to feed your family. Which may mean going out with gun and risking your life, walking through hell just to survive.

Tupac also sees himself as messenger for young kids who want to follow him. He wants to deliver the realest and clearest pictures of what this lifestyle is like. He doesn’t tell them not to live this lifestyle, he just warns them that it’s like riding “not knowing if we live or die”.