Tupac Vs. Biggie

(Panther, (1995) Dir. Mario Peebles with Kadeem Hardison, Courtney Vance)

The members expanded their services: providing free breakfast for children, clothes, and funded education for poor children. By the end of the year, the Panthers set up kitchens in cities across the nation, feeding over 10,000 children every day before they went to school. During this political movement hundreds of the Panthers were killed by the FBI, and county policemen. The Panthers efficiently eliminated by the FBI, majority went to jail

In 1994, Tupac was shot five times, in the chest and head. He survived his gun shots like a courageous warrior. He raps about it in, Until the end of time, “I got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing living proof there's a God if you need a reason”. While Tupac was in the hospital he had a visit from his biological father, whom he thought was dead for the 23 years of his life. In “Dear Mama” he says, “Now ain't nobody tell us it was fair no love from my daddy cause the coward wasn't there he passed away and I didn't cry, cause my anger wouldn't let me feel for a stranger they say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along I was looking for a father he was gone”. He getting on the elevator in a recording studio in New York, when two men robbed him and his entourage, during the time of the shooting he was on trial for a sex abuse case. In which an undercover police and a young lady set up. Tupac was innocent, it is truly absurd that a Rapper that was a sex symbol, who could have basically any woman he wanted, have to rape someone. The government was trying to get Tupac in jail any way they could to shut him up, from rapping about the pain of Black America. Meanwhile his case was still going on, he checked himself out of the hospital and went to court the next day. (http://hitemup.com)

His next album was “Strictly 4 my Niggaz”. Tupac got thrilled and added another tattoo on his stomach. The tattoo read “50 Niggaz” (symbolizing a black confederation among fifty states). The word “Nigga” in Tupac’s philosophy was “Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished”. In the song “Words of Wisdom” he raps, “Niggas, what are we going to do? Walk blind to a lie or fight. Fight and die if we must. Die like Niggas”, meaning like the niggas during the slavery times. Tupac was considered a 90’s voice of the Black Panther Party. Tupac said “Were going to take that word that they used ion a negative way , and turn it around on them… to make it a positive”. In almost every song on Tupac’s albums has a message to it, be it positive or negative, he was sure to get his point across. The same year he starred in a film with Janet Jackson, called Poetic Justice (Tupac Shakur 1971-1996, by the editors of VIBE).

Tupac attracted many fans, from all age groups. Here are some things fans have to say about the legend. “I am fifty five years old and am feeling quite sad that I Paid so little attention to what Tupac said and represented. Sometimes people my age are involved in getting a grip on the many changes that are occurring in our lives that we forget how much we wanted to make a difference in the lives of black people. I have learned (after Tupac’s death) about his message of being angry with Caucasians with their sick methods of attempting to control the world. But what upset him even more was what the so called black Americans do about it. Which is nothing? Most Americans, especially middle aged ones are so pitiful that they are immobile, unable to make decisions to change our attitudes about life more less make and effort to do something about it. We have progressively gotten worse and sometimes overtly align ourselves with the white man in his attempts to dominate us. Tupac refused to do that and stood alone, professing his desire to change the way things are. His supposedly friends totally spoke against him there when he needed them. I was not a good example to him and am truly sorry. Once again we as black Americans have failed our youth, for which there is no excuse. I don’t pay attention to what he was saying and had already formed an opinion from watching the news when he was in trouble, which is another story in itself. My point is that the media is never truthful when talking about black people but I fell into the same old trap that most of us do. Letting the white folks dictate an exert their viciousness by using they economic power, which is all that they have, to influence us. Tupac w

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