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 Posted - 15/10/2017 : 23:46:48
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Disturbing Facts About Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur is known today as one of the world’s top selling musical artists of all-time, but that doesn’t mean
his life was necessarily easy. In pioneering gangster rap, in fact, he drew upon the difficulties he faced growing
up to write controversial lyrics about ghettos and gang violence, occasionally romanticizing both, but more often
preaching peace or simply highlighting the hardships many Americans face.
Contradictions like these remind us that Tupac, despite his legendary status, was still a man as flawed as any other.
Here are eight disturbing facts about Tupac Shakur.
1. His mother was jailed during her pregnancy
(Tupac Shakur in Juice | Island World)
Tupac’s parents were both active members of New York’s Black Panther Party through the ’60s and early ’70s, when
Tupac was born. His mother Afeni Shakur was in prison for much of her pregnancy on more than 150 charges of
“Conspiracy against the United States government and New York landmarks,” but was acquitted about a month before
giving birth to Tupac on June 16, 1971.
2. He grew up around radical politics
(Tupac Shakur | Death Row)
Shakur learned about the politics of the Black Panther Party and the associated Black Liberation Army at an early
age from his mother and her friends, many of whom were imprisoned or otherwise targeted by the government for their
beliefs.
His godfather, Elmer Pratt, another Black Panther, was convicted of murdering a bystander during a robbery and his
sentence was later overturned. His stepfather, Mutulu Shakur was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list from 1982-1986 for
helping his sister, Assata Shakur escape from a New Jersey prison, where she was imprisoned for killing a state trooper.
Mutulu was eventually caught and jailed for the robbery of an armored truck that resulted in the death of a guard and
two police officers.
3. He got mad at his wife for fleeing a fire
(Tupac Shakur in Gang Related | Orion Pictures)
It sounds like Pac could be a little intense by some standards. Asked to describe a typical Tupac moment, his ex-wife
Keisha Morris spoke of an incident when their hotel room in Atlanta caught fire. She says, “I went to visit Tupac in
Atlanta and the hotel room caught on fire, he got mad at me because I tried to escape. He said he couldn’t trust me
because I should have stayed behind with him to fight the fire.”
4. He and his entourage jumped director Allen Hughes
(R U Still Down? | Jive Records)
Tupac was slated to star as Sharif in the film Menace II Society in the early ’90s, but was fired by co-director
Allen Hughes for causing trouble on set. He was fired and jailed for 15 days after punching Hughes during an
altercation during filming. Bystanders characterized the fight as Hughes versus not just Tupac but his entire
entourage, which sometimes numbered as many as 30 people.
5. He was shot five times in Manhattan
(Tupac: Resurrection | MTV Films)
Tupac was robbed and shot five times by three men in the lobby of Manhattan’s Quad Recording Studios on
November 30, 1994, the day before his sexual abuse trial reached a verdict. They stole his jewelry but left
his Rolex watch, leading Pac to suspect the robbery was just a pretext for the shooting. The next day, he
checked out of the hospital only three hours after surgery, against the doctor’s orders, and made it to the
courthouse to hear the verdict (he was found guilty of three counts of molestation and not guilty of six others).
In an interview shortly after, Tupac accused the CEO of a rival record label, Sean Combs, plus his associate
Jimmy Henchman and rapper Biggie Smalls of orchestrating the attack. Years later, he was vindicated when Dexter
Isaac confessed to carrying out the attack on the orders of Jimmy Henchman. Biggie was apparently uninvolved in the attack.
6. He nearly wore a bullet proof vest the night he was killed
2Pac - Dear Mama
Pac and his loved ones were vigilant about attempts on the rapper’s life by rival gang members, as evidenced by the
security guards that accompanied him during public appearances. The night he died in Las Vegas, his fiancé Kidada
Jones asked that he wear his bulletproof vest following a confrontation with Orlando Anderson. Tupac refused, saying
it was too hot, and told her to stay in for the night.
7. He was revived seven times before his death
2pac - Changes
Tupac was a fighter right until the brink of death. After he was rushed to Las Vegas’s Bellevue Hospital with
multiple gunshot wounds, he came perilously close to death again and again — losing consciousness and being
subsequently revived a whopping seven times before he finally passed. The prolonged struggle has inspired a slew
of conspiracy theories surrounding the rapper’s death, but Pac’s mother, Afeni confirmed the details of his repeated
revivals before death.
8. His friends smoked his ashes
Tupac - Keep Ya Head Up (VIDEO w/ Lyrics)
Shakur was cremated the day after his death. Members of the Outlawz, the hip-hop group he founded in 1995, later mixed
his ashes with marijuana and smoked them as an odd way, to say the least, of celebrating their late friend. E.D.I. Mean
later said in an interview that he eventually learned the ashes they smoked were not Pac’s. Whose ashes they were is
anyone’s guess.
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Tutta
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Tutta
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Tutta
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Posted - 16/10/2017 : 00:54:35
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Tupac Shakur: A Life, A Legacy, A Legend
Today, September 13th, 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of one of Hip Hop music’s legends: Tupac Amaru Shakur. Known for the mélange of political
consciousness, aggression, and existentialism that characterized his lyrics, Tupac was many things to many people. To his fans he was a great lyricist, a
fearless voice for the disenfranchised, and the reason people threw dubs up whenever the DJ spins West Coast Rap. To the establishment, he was an unwelcome
voice of revolution and the personification of its worst prejudices against the black community. Since his untimely (and still unsolved) murder on this
day in 1996, there have been volumes of his music released. In fact, out of the 11 albums credited to him, 7 were posthumous releases, and much of that material
was still pertinent to the issues of the times in which they were released. Some even argued that his work was prophetic (looking at you Dave Chappelle).
Whatever your thoughts on Tupac were, there was no doubt that he was unafraid to make his known.
Tupac’s life was steeped in the struggle for civil rights since before the day he was born. His mother, stepfather, aunt, and several other relatives were
members of the original Black Panthers. He was almost born in prison while his mother was incarcerated with several other members of the Black Panther Party
for an alleged bomb plot. Fortunately for him and the rest of the world she was released in 1971 just before his birth. The mentorship he received in his
formative years provided him with a strong foundation for his politics. Growing up after the decline of the Black Panther Party and living his adolescent
years at the height of the (government-funded) crack epidemic of the 1980’s showed him the depths of desperation that the working class faced at the hands
of an unscrupulous and corrupt oligarchy. During this time, music was his most powerful outlet. The depth of his political consciousness was apparent early
in his career. His first studio album, 1991’s 2Pacalypse Now, was teeming with song lyrics that screamed his frustration through the speakers. Songs like
Young Black Male, Part Time Mutha, and Trapped covered issues like proximity violence, sexual abuse, and the prison industrial complex.
By the release of his 1993 album Strictly for my N.I.G.G.A.Z. he had acquired the finances and platform to allow him to speak about the social injustices
against the African American community with more effect. He was a vocal critic of police brutality, and his convictions in this area did not stay behind the
microphone. A famous example of this was the shooting two off duty police officers in the process of beating an unarmed black male. He was also vocal
about crime in the black community. He often decried the level of proximity violence in poor black communities while simultaneously arguing that the
issue was bigger some manufactured cultural defect. It was a symptom of systemic violence against the poor. He was openly critical of the wealth and
resource hoarding typical of the capitalist class, arguing that the inevitable outcome of the system designed to allow this will be an uprising of the
masses. Tupac put actions behind his convictions on the subject. He was known for his philanthropy, contributing to several charitable organizations,
and even allowing the homeless to sleep in some of his houses.
In most discussions about Tupac, his philanthropy and revolutionary politics tend to take a back seat to two things: his thug life image and the
East Coast/West Coast beef that many credit with not only his death, but also that of his long-time rival and former friend the Notorious BIG. Tupac
was noted as proudly wearing the title of “thug”. While to the establishment it referred to the criminal and violent, he argued that it meant someone
that not only endured hardships, but thrived despite them. He wore the title like a badge of honour, refusing to change his tone, his message, or his
personality simply because his music made him rich. When the rivalry between the East and West reached a fever pitch, it was that very image that was
twisted against him, his associates and his rivals. What started as an interpersonal conflict grew into something no one had expected, and many believe
resulted in Hip Hop culture being robbed of its two brightest stars. In many ways this rancour was used as a tool to define rap music as violent,
criminal, and dangerous. Personally I believe that the deaths of Tupac and Biggie spelled the end (for a while at least) of politically focused Hip Hop
music in the mainstream. While rivalries in Hip Hop music were nothing new (shout out to the Real Roxanne), this was different, and it changed
the way we look at the genre and its artists.
So who was Tupac? What did he contribute to Hip Hop culture? While I am no KRS-1, I can say that Tupac’s influence can’t be defined simply. His politics
were too developed, his music was too diverse, and his convictions were too strong. To me he was a teacher. He explored social, political, economic,
and existential problems in a way that few rappers could in his time. His music gave me permission to examine my own fragility and be at peace with
it. His music helped me cope with loss, celebrate triumphs, and escape my own personal struggles. His music was cathartic, raw, and honest. It was complex
enough to demand that the listener think beyond the pace of the instrumental and the melodious cadence of his voice. He spoke to the different dimensions
of the human condition. He spoke to the philosopher, the partygoer, the hoodlum, the priest, and the politician. There was complexity in his music, emotion
in his poetry, and revolution in his politics. Tupac made classics for both lovers of thought-provoking lyricism, and lovers of a good tune to dance to. He
was a teacher, he was a fighter, and he was a lover of humanity. He was both the untamed and the disciplined. One thing is for certain those of us fortunate
enough to live in his time will likely never see another like him before our time is over. Perhaps the world will never see one his like ever again.
Rest in peace Tupac, thank you for your music, thank you for your voice and thank you for all that you were. 20 years on, you may be gone but still
not forgotten.
2Pac - Thugz Mansion (Ft. Nas & J. Phoenix) (Subtitulada Español)
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