Posted on 12/31/2022 7:04:52 AM PST by Bon of Babble
Tupac Shakur is known by some as having been a criminal rapper who was murdered in 1996, at age 25, in what reportedly was gangland retaliation. But now is a “literary” figure whose work is taught in school.
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Nothing new. The 6th grade readers I had (published in the mid-70s) had the lyrics from multiple 60s songwriters and also Langston Hughes for their poetry section.
The continued dumbing down of America by dummies
Tupac is replacing American poets such as Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Emily Post, and e.e. cummings.
I'm an old white guy, but one of his songs is on my phone, and it gets listened to regularly. "Dear Mama." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY
No, it's not an example of proper English composition, but it is still a valid expression. My mom wasn't a crack fiend, but I could still empathize with him. Mom was a single-parent waitress, married 3 times trying to find us a good dad. Didn't work. But like his mom, she did what she could while still keeping some kind of roof over our heads.
And he's not replacing, he's supplementing. There are a lot more kids from broken families in the US then there were when I was a kid. He says stuff they feel.
Hugh Laurie, musician and actor, said "There are only two kinds of music. Good and Bad. Everything else is just cataloging." The same is true of poetry, and literature.
The writing is low-grade, poorly punctuated, and simplistic…
Ever read ee Cummings?
Yep. Under duress. SWMBO loves his work.
I spent some time as a small newspaper editor, and special ed teacher. Folks that needed to write something often had trouble getting it out on paper. I told them to get it on the paper as fast as you can, record it if you must, and transcribe from the recording. You can always edit it afterwards. This based on the English teachers I had through school, and my own experience, and some hints and tips from the Special Education field.
Funny thing is that those folks replaced older writers, too. Nobody complains about that.
Just as long as they study the Beastie Boys so as not to ostracize white folks.
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