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Friday, July 14, 2017

Tupac

Introduction
Tupac is the greatest rapper of all time!!!!  His mom had a big impact on him.  He went to Baltimore School of Arts when he was 15.  His music career started when he joined Digital Underground.  He later went solo and signed to Interscope.  Then went to prison; Suge Knight got him out, so he joined Death Row.  Biggie was a close friend to Tupac, but they fell out because he thought Biggie had something to do with him being shot.  He has many albums and played in several movies.  He is the only person to make more albums dead than alive.  He had several interviews and started on 2 tv shows.  Cops didn't like Tupac.  "They get jealous when they see you with your mobile phone."  Pac had several court cases.  The identity of 1996 shooter is known.  He had a big impact worldwide.

Childhood
He was born a month and 3 days after his mom got out of prison.  His mom (Afeni Shakur) and other Black Panthers were falsely accused of planning to bomb places in NYC.  Afeni defeated the prosecution by herself.  Tupac's father and step-father were Black Panthers.  His step-father name was Mutulu Shakur.  His sister is Assata Shakur. She is wanted by the U.S. government because she fried sum pigs.  She had lived in prison but escaped and fled to Cuba.  Long live Assata Shakur!!!!!!  Tupac's godfather was Geronimo Pratt a leader in the Black Panther Party.  Cointelpro framed him and he spent 27 years in jail. Johnnie Cochran helped him get out of jail. Cointeltelpro (Counter Intelligence Program) targeted groups they thought were anti-government.  The Black Panthers were one of the groups on the FBI hit list.

His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks.  His mom changed his name to Tupac Shakur a year later. Tupac is the first name of a Peruvian revolutionary.  Shakur mean thankful to god in Arabic.  Tupac had an older step-brother named Mopreme Shakur. He became one of Tupac's disciples.  Sekyiwa Shakur is his little sister.

When Pac was 12 he was a character in the Raisin of the Sun at the Apollo.

Teenage Years
In 1986 his family moved to Baltimore.  He attended Baltimore School of Art.  At this school, he learned acting, poetry, jazz, etc.  There were rap battles in school and Pac was triumphant!!!!!!!  He was a cool kid because all his classmates loved him.  He became Jada Pickett Smith best friend while attending this school. He wrote 2 poems about Jada.  They are called Jada and Tearz in Cupid's Eyes.  I think they should have dated.  Pac joined the Young Communist League.

When he was 17 his family moved to California.  He attended Tamalpais High School. He wrote poems and acted at this school.  The next year he went to poetry classes. He had a concert and then he was signed to Anton Gregory.




Music Career
After he got signed to Anton Gregory he joined Digital Underground.  The first song he rapped on was Same Song.  When Pac made I Get Around DU song with help from DU.  He was with DU for 4 years.  They did 5 tours, one of which was in Japan!

When Tupac left DU he signed to Interscope.  His first album was 2Pacalypse Now. The album was about problems in the Black community.  His 2nd album was called Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.  Some songs contained his political and social views.  It was more successful than his first album.

In 1993 2pac made a group called Thug Life.  His step-brother was a member.  They created an album called Thug Life Volume 1.   His album Me Against The World came out in 1995.  It is one of the greatest albums of all times.  It came out while he was in prison.

Tupac was put in jail because a woman accused him of rape.  Suge Knight got him out, so he joined Death Row.  He made All Eyez On Me while on the label.  That was the last album he made b4 he died.  Right b4 he died he was going to be the owner of Death Row East.  Death Row corrupted 2pac because he was surrounded by gangstas.

While on Death Row he created a group called Outlawz.  His step-brother and Big Skye joined the group. They were members of Thug Life when Tupac was on Interscope.  There was 10 Outlawz originally.

Biggie Beef
2pac and Biggie were close friends until 2pac got shot at the studio.  He was shot 5 times in 11/30/1994. People in prison told him "Biggie know who shot you."  He believed them. Dexter Isaac said he shot Tupac at the behest of Jimmy Henchmen. Dexter Isaac has life in prison and Jimmy Henchmen denies the allegations.  Jimmy said 2pac was his friend.

Tupac made Hit Em Up because he wanted to destroy Biggie verbally.  He had sex with Faith Evans when she was in California and Suge Knight had sex with her friend. Prior to all this Biggie was an opening act at some Pac 's concerts.

Most Popular Tracks
Trapped: This song is about being in a terrible society.

Brenda's Got A Baby: This song is about teenage pregnancy and poverty.

Keep Yo Head Up: The song was about problems in the black community.  The phrase keep yo head up means to remain positive during difficult circumstances.

I Get Around: It's about being a playa.

Dear Mama: It praises his mom 4 taking care of him.

Me Against The World: It dealt with problems in the hood.

My Block: An analysis of life in the hood.

California Love: It's about having fun.

Only God Can Judge Me Now: He explained his death in this song.

Life Goes On: It's a homage to his dead friend.

Hit Em Up: Greatest diss track of all time!!!!!

To Live & Die IN L.A.- It was a homage to L.A.

2 OF America's Most Wanted:  Pac and Snoop being are talking being G's on this song.

Changes: My favorite Pac song.  It's about the ills of the black community.  He gives advice and he talks about himself.

Until the End Of Time: This track was about his life in the hood and the music industry.
















Films
He was Jada Pickett Smith ex-boyfriend on A Different World.  He was on an episode of In Living Color.His first movie was Juice.  He killed his friends.  Omar Epps killed him at the end of the movie.  Poetic Justice was the second film he was in.  He was a postal clerk and got in a romantic relationship with Janet Jackson in the movie.  His 3rd movie was Above The Rim.  He was a drug dealer in this movie.  Pac was a drug kingpin in Bullet. Gridlock'd was about 3 heroin addicts, Pac was one of them.  Pac was a corrupt cop in Gang Related. There's a biopic about Tupac called All Eyez on Me.


















Interviews
Some of his interviews dealt with the plight of Black America.  In an interview in 1991, he talked about the cops hassling him.  In 1992 he talked about greed and the government helping minorities being independent. He felt it is wrong for a few people to have so much $, while most people poor.  He attacked capitalism in this interview.  He thought economic inequality was so absurd.  In another interview, he talked about gangsta rap reflecting life on the streets.  He feels people should defend themselves when someone harms them.  So do I.  He spoke on the Iran-Contra scandal as real violence and violent lyrics as fake violence.  His music was about people rizing up against the power elite.  One interview he spoke of the lack of security in black neighborhoods compared to white neighborhoods.


Cops Messing with Pac
In 1991 cops harassed Pac 4 jaywalking.  He cussed them out and they beat him up.

In 1993 2 drunk cops harassed a black male.  Tupac told them to stop, they wouldn't. He went back in his car and one of the cops busted his window with an illegal firearm.  Pac shot both of the cops out of self-defense.  It would've been nice if those pigs fried.

 Court Cases
He sued the police in 1991 for beating him up.  He got over $43,000.  Most of it went to the lawyers.

In 1992 a little boy got shot by mistake.  It was from a gun Tupac owned.  The mother of the little boy had a lawsuit against Pac.  Tupac paid her something like $400,000 to drop it.

On 4/5/1993 he was charged with assault because he was going to hit someone with a baseball bat.  He spent 10 days in jail 4 this.

In later 1993 he had a case with those cops he shot.  All charges were dropped because the cops were wrong for harassing and endangering people.

In 1994 he was sentenced to 15 days in jail 4 beating up the director of Menace II Society.

In 1995 he spent 9 months in jail because a women lied on him.

Tupac Death & Ressurection
Tupac was gun downed in Las Vegas 9/13/1996.  Orlando Anderson (Baby Lane) was the shooter. Orlando was beaten up in the casino right b4 the shooting.  Orlando may have gunned down 2pac because Pac was the first one to bomb on him.  Rumor has it Puffy paid sum Southside Crips to kill Pac.  Orlando was one them if this rumor is true.  There was a gang war after 2pac got killed and Anderson's legs got shot up. Orlando got killed in 1998 over a $ dispute.  Someone was supposed to pay him back, but they gave him a bullet instead of $.

Tupac lives on in my heart!!!!!!!!!!!
















Pac Influence
50 Cent felt Pac had a big effect on rappers in the 90's.  Chuck Philips an instigative journalist said 2pac helped made rap a global phenomenon.  People around the world painted pictures of Pac.  There was a concert that had a hologram of 2pac.  Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony name was partially inspired by 2pac.  Pac was the first rapper to have a double album.  Other rappers followed suit.

Conclusion
Pac was greatly influenced by Black Panthers.  You can hear the influence in his music.  He was a great intellectual.  You can hear it in his interviews and songs.  He was a great actor.  You can see it in his movies. He didn't take no shit.  That's why the cops bothered him and; that's why he was always in court.  He was a great poet. Read his poems.  No other rapper can hold a candle to Pac.  Long live the king of Hip Hop!!!!!!















References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/02/prat-f18.html
https://www.democracynow.org/2000/10/5/last_man_standing_the_tragedy_and
https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-cuba-assata-shakur-fbi-america-obama-perspec-1230-20141229-story.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-oral-history-of-2pacs-digital-underground-years-w474890
http://theboombox.com/inmate-admits-he-shot-tupac-names-jimmy-henchmen-diddy/
http://www.mtv.com/news/1583487/biggie-diddy-knew-tupac-would-be-ambushed-in-1994-alleges-los-angeles-times-reporter/
https://www.thoughtco.com/tupac-shakurs-top-songs-2858001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlawz
https://revolt.tv/stories/2016/07/07/6-tupac-shakur-interviews-resonates-black-america-2016-8b45ae273c
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/8-ways-tupac-shakur-changed-the-world-w439346
https://diocesefwsb2.instructure.com/courses/6077/pages/the-inspiration-tupac-shakur-and-raps-societal-influence
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Tupac-Shakur-change-influence-the-world-or-society-in-3-ways
http://www.ibtimes.com/tupac-shakurs-influence-after-20-years-kendrick-lamar-black-lives-matter-2415182
https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/long-live-the-rose-that-grew-from-concrete?utm_term=.nvW0bA9zE#.kj3xNB3y2
http://www.csun.edu/~kcj39325/tupacpoem.html
http://www.quotezine.com/23-incredible-tupac-shakur-poems/
https://www.pinterest.com/explore/2pac-poems/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Tupac_Shakur
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93 Interview
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MTV 1996 Interview
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Nas Homage 2 Pac
Pac's Ex-Wife
2pac's Little Sister
2pac Pops
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