Posted on 03/16/2018 8:59:35 AM PDT by rktman
Vice’s music site Noisey is reassuring readers, “You Don’t Have to Worship 2pac.” And I, for one, am relieved. I wasn’t wild about getting that “Thug Life” tattoo.
It seems that “Recent criticism of the rap icon from Lil Xan and 03 Greedo forces us to ask whether or not our heroes are beyond reproach.” Heroes assuredly are not beyond reproach. Neither is Noisey’s definition of “hero.”
It’s certainly not for me to judge Tupac Shakur’s music, but people who can tell the difference (and I’ll assume Lil Xan and 03 Greedo are among them) haven’t been uniformly impressed. According to Noisey contributor Lawrence Burney, “While covering Shakur’s 1995 trial for allegedly raping a woman in a hotel in 1993 for the Village Voice, hip-hop journalist Touré proposed that while Pac was one of the most famous rappers on the planet, he was ‘merely an average vocalist and lyricist …’” (That’s the same Touré who’s for years been a talking head on MSNBC. Surely he can afford a last name by now?)
Did you catch the context there? A rape trial. A few sentences later we learn that “Users accused Pac of pimping out the gangsta persona once signing to Death Row, while others cited his shooting of two off-duty cops in Georgia as reason for why he was the realest of all rappers.”
Hmmm. How else did Noisey’s “hero” keep it real? Some highlights:
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Revolting to see Tupac and these other punks elevated to hero status. Pop culture is a sewer.
I prefer sixpac myself. ;-)
But rock stars who have orgies with underage girls and sing Satanic lyrics are OK though.
Well heck yeah. Pervs United local 871.
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The left has won the war for TV material, at a time when “people that matter” realize TV usually just makes people stupid. This pandering to blacks, women, deviants, etc. in the TV arena is just a desperate attempt to keep the last demographics that even bother watching...
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