His mother, Afeni Shakur, and his father, Billy Garland, were active members of the Black Panther Party in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s; he was born just one month after his mother's acquittal on more than 150 charges of "Conspiracy against the United States government and New York landmarks" in the New York Panther 21 court case.[12]…
Tupac Shakur was born Tupac Amaru Shakur (Tupac means "shining serpent" in Inca) in New York City in 1971. He went on to have very successful careers as an actor & rapper. Look around the web for his career information, you know that’s not our gig. That said….…
Throughout the nineties there was an movement in hip hop, the infamous East coast rap vs West coast between rap musicians. It was a separational movement that caused both sides to end the lives of two most influential rappers in the music industry, Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur. Both rappers with similar backgrounds have changed the music scene completely with one sudden movement. Known mainly for their rivalry against one another and compared because of the backgrounds, these two artist had quite a distinctiveness to one another. Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur are great influential artist in the music industry and had similar backgrounds but distinctive enough to cause a separation that influenced the music industry then and now.…
The controlling message in Tupac’s rhymes was the strength of the black man and the inability of his will to be broken. Tupac having been involved in gangs and drug pedaling as a young man knew the temptations of such actions and hated that his race was subjected to…
Prior to examining Tupac Shakur’s developmental factors and major conflicts in his personality, there was first an investigation of his historical background. According to Makaveli.com, Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996) was a highly influential, best-selling American hip hop artist, considered by many to be one of the greatest and most legendary rappers of all time. The themes in Tupac’s music concerned growing up around violence, hardships in ghettos, racial inequality, and sometimes his feuds with fellow rappers in the United States. MTV’s 22 Greatest MCs countdown also listed Tupac as their number 1 MC, as voted by the viewers.” Understanding the origin someone’s of names and how they got…
In the article, “Tupac and My Non –Thug Life the author of this article Jenee Desmonc-Harris writes about how a young California girl was so affected by Tupac’s death. She remembers rushing home from school crying about Tupac’s death. She was so influence by him she really loved him and was a huge fan. She knew him on a personal level which may have been way she was influenced. Listening to Tupac made the girl so proud of African American culture. She and her friend were valued Tupac’s music so much, after his death they tattooed a song lyric of his. They mourned Tupac’s death. She felt strongly grateful about his music, as she even mentioned, “his music represents the years when I was both forced and privileged to confront what it meant to be black.”…
When I visualize my gestation period I picture my mother with her feet up sitting in a rocking chair while my father digs thourgh the frieg to find her a late night snack. She reads to a soothing laliby while I lay back and focus on her calm relaxing voice. I go on to picture myself being born to a loving family we reside in a small but happy home with a white pickit fence and a little dog. Although my childhood was not quite this rosey, I must confess it was not quite as bad as MR shakur. His gestation period was spend in prison. His mother Afeni Shakur was in serving time on a boom charge. Tupac was rasied in the Bronx and where he learned and participated in theather at and early age. When he was 13 he had his first performance at Apollo theatre where he performed in a stage play of the rasisin in the sun for Jessie James 1984 presidential campaign. During tupac’s youth and adolessece the shukur family moved around a lot, This was mainly due to Afeni drug addition and spoty arrest record. When Tupac was 17 he attended the Baltimore School of the Arts. It was here that he honed in on his theatra skills. The school had video footage of an interview he done when he was about 17. In the interview he really seemed like he enjoyed the school and all it had to offer. Due to his home situation he had to stop going and move accrossed county from baltimore to Marin County, California. I don’t think it was a coincidence that he never attended school again. IT is in Marin County that he meant Leila sternburg and the rest is as they say History.…
There are many uses of imagery throughout the song, mostly pertaining to life growing up in the ghetto; "We gotta start makin' changes, learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers." It is also apparent that Tupac feels animosity towards the police; "Cops give a damn about a negro, pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero. Give the crack to the kids, who the hell cares, one less hungry mouth on the welfare." This is more than likely the due to negative experiences with law enforcement.…
I chose to do my project on Tupac Shakur, because he is one of my many inspirations. He was mostly known for his music and making the term “Thug Life” famous. He was also known for his acting abilities. Additionally, Tupac was an advocate of creative arts, a supporter of the Black Panthers and contributed to several charities.…
Violent lyrics, a bad-boy image, and a long criminal record are what attracted and connected millions of young adults to the now legendary rapper Tupac Shakur. Tupac was a man of contradictions; for example, his music degraded and also praised strong women. Tupac Shakur rapped about problems that inner-city black Americans could relate to, along with his legal and personal drama; you could not get away from Tupac in the 1990’s. From the womb to the day Tupac Shakur died he went through the struggles many self-proclaimed “gangsters” these days do as well; but using these problems he took the rap and hip-hop game to another level.…
To begin, Tupac Shakur, born Lesane Paris Crooks, was born June 16th, 1971 in Brooklyn, NY. Being the son of a Black Panther activist, Shakur moved around a lot as a child. His parents had separated before he was born, and his mother moved him and his sister around the country for much of their childhood. Mutulu Shakur, Tupac 's stepfather, is sentenced to 60 years in prison for his connection with a 1981 armored-car robbery. Frequently, the family was at the poverty level. In his song “Changes” he states “I 'm tired of bein ' poor and even worse I 'm black. My stomach hurts, so I 'm lookin ' for a purse to snatch” and in “Dear Mama” where he says “I shed tears with my baby sister over the years we was poorer than the other little kids” Shakur managed to get accepted to the prestigious Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager where he studied acting and ballet. While living in Baltimore, he discovered rap and began performing. Before he could graduate, his family moved to the West Coast to Marin City, CA, in the late 1980’s when he was 17 years old. Over the next few years, he lived life on the streets and initiated his hustling. Shakur drifted into the gang life, gathering a criminal record with eight arrests by the beginning of his twenties. He demonstrates his early troubles in “Dear Mama” where he says “Suspended from school;…
What we only see in Tupac is the violent life he lived and how he is the root of corruption among our youth. "They say Tupac [hip-hop] teaches our youth to be gangsters and has no positive message, but they forget the U.S. climate is negative." (Anonymous poem author) Judging someone by their outside character can never determine what they are feeling on the inside. In other words, Tupac was the true example of society today. We see the negative clearly, but how much do we know about the positive?…
> Tupac 's position in the Black community was a highly regarded one in that it constituted the responsibility of representing Blacks in the media. Also, being from the lower class himself he had knowledge of the conditions in which the lower class were living in, specifically the Black community, and was able to relate to and comment on them. I chose to analyze his lyrics because I feel they apply to many societies. The song My Block is a song about Black struggles, and the way of life Blacks are made to lead. However when this song is applied to the Marxian ideology, it can relate to the conditions of the proletariat, in the bourgeoisie capitalist society.…
Tupac Amuru Shakur or better known by his stage name 2Pac was an American rapper and actor who came to fame in the 80’s-90’s era. Both Tupac’s mother and father were active members of the “Black Panthers”. Shakur’s parents were very outspoken and tenacious individuals, although they divorced during Tupac’s younger years both of their qualities can be seen through Tupac’s words and actions. From an early age Shakur was surrounded by struggle and relatives who were imprisoned, this plays a big role in his works or literature. Tupac can be seen as one of the pioneers of “controversial rap”. Most of his works shed light on current events in the African American community. He mostly spoke of the wrong doings of young African American’s and also the mistreating of young African American’s by society during this time (80’s-90’s).…
Tupac Shakur is considered an rap icon. Some may say he is the MJ to the rap game. He didn’t just make music he made common situation into a song that everyone can bob their head to. Many artist say that they were influenced to rap because of Tupac such as Nas, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and so many more. Tupac’s mother (Afeni Shakur) was a single parent and she tried her best trying to make their childhood a great one. He thanked his mom for her effort in the song ‘Dear Mama‘. He may have been known to many people as an “Gangster” or “Thug”, but he also touched on issues that were going on at that moment of time. ‘Keep ya head up’ by 2pac was an anthem for women who were raising children on their own during the hard times during the 90’s, especially…