Okay, so I already talked about Pac in one of my earlier posts. But I felt I needed to go into deeper detail as to Tupac's words were so impactful. Tupac will forever capture the brilliance, anger, and potential of young black males in a way no one has before or since.
Songs like "Point the Finga", "Changes", "Trapped", and"So Many Tears", speak on police brutality, systematic racism, and materialism in a poetic, honest, intelligent way that was wise beyond Pac's years. He broke things down, resonating with both high school dropouts, and Harvard graduates. It's ironic that Tupac was so fascinated with Shakespeare, because he's most certainly become a Shakespearean figure. Tupac was a paradox
He was revolutionary. He was insightful. He was sensitive, and had a soft spot for black women. He gave a speech at an NAACP banquet at 21 that evokes Malcolm X. He dropped 3 of the top 10 rap albums of all-time by the time he turned 25.
He helped temporarily bring a truce between Crips and Bloods. He comes from a lineage of Black Panthers. His words and music crosses generations, and resonates with oldheads and milennials alike. All of this from a nerd
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