Tupac Shakur: A Revolutionary Hero

Tupac Shakur: A Revolutionary Hero. Tupac Shakur lived a life full of struggle and hardship, but it was not always that way for him and his family. He made his big break in the music industry after he had moved to the west coast and joined a rap group called “Digital Underground” formed in Oakland California. His stage name was “MC New York” considering that is where he had grown up as kid, His first hit song in this group was called “The Humpty Dance”. I believe that Tupac Shakur is a revolutionary because he made music that a lot of young minorities can relate to, The struggle of living in the hood and also police brutality. He wrote music or poetry about the hatred African Americans were facing during that period, and many young minorities could relate to that. Tupac’s music made a big impact on teens that were suffering from police brutality and not being able to just live a normal life without being harassed by a cop all the time, just because of the color of their skin. “Tupac and his music was something that my friends and I grew up on, We could relate to almost everything he ever wrote about. The real struggle. “ (www.Counterfire.org). It was not only his family struggle that gave
His mother, Afeni Shakur was actually in prison on bombing charges during her pregnancy with Tupac. Tupac never actually met his biological father Billy Garland until he was an adult. “Many people do not understand the reason why most minorities support his music, Because they never knew the struggle”(www.Biography.com) Due to tupac not having his father it was really hard for him to become a leader, He had to learn on his own and whatever his mother taught him and what he learned in