Posted on 06/16/2014 5:56:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tupac would have turned 43 today. In age of Trayvon and Jordan Davis, here's why we have a hard time letting him go.
Tupac Shakur lived for twenty-five years. I was nine years-old when he died and twenty-five seemed so grown to me. Twenty-five sounded like you had lived. It wasnt until I started approaching twenty-five myself that I realized how close to black boyhood Tupac, born forty-three years ago to the day, was when he died.
I think thats part of the reason we have a hard time letting him go. For all of his faults (and there were many), he continues to show up in our conspiracy theories and urban legends, as a hologram at Coachella and an inspiration on Broadway, in our art, our style, our memorials, our fantasies, and our histories because of what he represented. Tupac wasnt the most impressive rapper. Only a diehard mourns the loss of his actual rhyme skills. But more than any other figure of that time, and probably since, Tupac articulated black boy rage in a way that was authentic, relatable, and easily translated to a nation determined to kill us. When he rapped, his vocal strain came directly from the gut, where he held his pain. He spoke with his entire body and you could damn near see the fury and anger pulsating just underneath his skin. Tupac screamed in Americas face on behalf of black boys in Brooklyn, Compton, Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis, Baltimore, Miami, and all over who had been terrorized by white supremacy.
Which is why reading this never-before-told account of his last words wasnt the least bit shocking....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Good riddance.
WTF is this nut talking about? Is he on bath salts?
Unreadable slate-prate crap from a brain damaged pin head.
Tupac who?
John Derbyshire was fired for writing a truthful and far less inflammatory article.
All 85 IQ points were wasted in writing this article.
We????
You got a frog in your pocket, moron?
Tupac was a gang-banging piece of shit.
Good riddance.
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You loaned him 45 points?
“... who had been terrorized by white supremacy.” Western Civilization is a white race product. It is to the benefit of ALL races today, if they can get past this foolishness of raging for the signifyin’ rush of it. When the economy collapses and these same raging boys are slaughtering and eating their own in the cities of starvation, how many black people will be praising the ragers for their signifyin’ against ‘white supremacy’?
I had never listened to his “music” until a few months ago. I came across a program about him and looked him up. I had not missed a thing. I do not consider that real music.
“relatable, and easily translated to a nation determined to kill us. “
It ain’t Whites who are killing the Blacks who are slaughtered way out of proportion to their percentage of the population. And Tupac never saw 5 seconds of meaningful ‘White supremacy’ in his life.
Not only that, but have all the aeroplanes and ships stopped going to Africa? If not, why doesn’t he get on one?
Neither do I. It's recitation with some drumming in the background.
The fate of a rapper is around 1,205,366, 164,741 on my 2-do list.
That also lists rappers in the ladder of talent and ability.
Like I do with most things, I picked up some of his CDs at garage sales to listen to them.
It’s hard to believe they like to listen to that stuff and go attack whitey, but I guess it is the background music to their personal movie.
Maybe he ought to visit a prison, like Richard Pryor did, and see if he still feels the same way
Was my lucky day in Vegas, the night they gunned to turd down!
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