The chorus of the song goes:
I won't deny it I'm a straight ridah
You don't wanna fuck with me
Got the police busting at me
But they can't do nothin to a G
Even if "ridah" by some miraculous fuck-up was meant to allude to Tupac's poetic abilities, the rest of the chorus seems to have nothing to do with it. For one, no one uses writing to fuck with another writer in the sense that "you don't wanna fuck with me", "bustin at me" and "can't do nothin to a g" implies. Furthermore, the latter two lines when seen in context confirms that he is talking about being a rider, and not a writer. Why would the police go after a writer? And what about being a writer enables Tupac to not be phased when they attempt to bust on him? To flip the question around, does it not seem to make a lot more sense that the reason why the police can't bust on Tupac is that he is a ridah, not a writer, and that a ridah has the necessary skill sets to survive a police encounter (considering a "ridah" is a down ass motherfucker)?
I took this from urban dictionary:
1. rider
a straight up, easy going, dont give a fuck about what you think type a person.
2. rider
person whos down with their crew gets in on the action just with no gang affiliation and is down for life.
Now pardon my source as I make my point. Throughout the song, Tupac makes references to having battle scars, being rugged and raw, not giving a fuck about anybody cause that's what the public loves, having lots of wealth, frequently smoking weed and having sex, it being on because he said so, making a million, spitting at adversaries, rather dying before being caught by the police, fuck peace and the police, dying like a man when it's time to go, staying off the block and evading cops. He ends his last verse saying he's gonna get revenge on everyone that played him during the trial period, and everybody who was down with anybody who tried to play him. I ask of you, brother, how you can make any of these things out to support your theory that Tupac is rapping about being a great poet? To me, it sounds much more like he's trying to preach about how to keep your mind straight in the game. His verses end with "now you got me right beside you, hoping you're listening, i got you paying attention to my ambitions as a ridah. So he's suggesting he's reading over your words and making sure your poetry is strong? How do any of these qualities or actions that Tupac describe in his verses work in a writer/poet's favor, in the context of how good his writing is and how he can improve it? How is the fact that Pac doesn't give a fuck about the police a good argument for why you should pay attention to his ambitions as a writer?