... . Like most male teenagers of today, I am completely infatuated with Hip-Hop Culture. I love every aspect of their lifestyles, especially their music, Rap Music. Most self-respecting Hip-Hoppers know of the greatest rapper to ever walk the streets of this earth, Tupac Amour Shaker. Tupac is more widely ... ; from then on, I listened as much as I could because those things were totally unheard of in my childhood. Although that is when I began listening to rap, I never really listened. I could decipher the words they were using, better than most kids I knew! could, but I had never really pi...

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... their high schools, or where brothers are murdered standing outside their homes playing catch(1)." Carroll moves on to suggest that while these rappers may rap about issues not concerning street life, they are condoning it even if they are speaking about the troubles caused by life in the inner city ... exist, it is not simply a Black reality(2)." Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, put it best when she said, "It doesn't make sense to suggest that rap's violent lyrics are to blame for society's ills. If that were the case, she said, gospel music would have saved the world(2)." She understood th...

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... called Dear Mama to his mom and thanked her for how she tried her best at raising him. His public career started when he joined the seminal Bay Area rap ensemble. He started as a tour dancer for a group called Digital Underground but then started rapping live. From there he released a couple of albums and then ... his stunning talent also got him a role in the motion picture, "Juice". He quickly became friends with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He made a number of songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This ... th...

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... , by the editors of VIBE) Tupac outshine in his dramatic performances, he was a great poet, and he began to have a passion for rapping. His first rap was about a friend that he lost to a gun. He was an extremely talented actor, he starred in five box office movies, which were all filmed in ... himself. Don Quale, said that "his album had no place in this society". The politics were frustrated that a young black male was brave enough to rap about the reality of the black societies. Tupac said the album "was his practice to introduce a center character through whom he could develop a narr...

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... the Arts where he studied acting and ballet with many white kids and finally felt in touch with himself. This is where he wrote his first rap which was about gun control after he lost one of his good friends. Looking for a better life Afeni packed up their bags and moved the ... realized his mother, Afeni, was strongly addicted to drugs and decided his house was to dysfunctional for him to start a career. Leila took him in along with Ray Luv and let them stay in her house where she lived with her husband and children. Tupac's friendship with Leila grew and they would start ... who was th...

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... he says, pointing to his sagging jeans, pushing them down for extra emphasis. "Thug Life" is what Tupac calls his mission for the black community - a support group, a rap act, and a philosophy. "But why be a thug?" was heard from a member of his audience. "Because if I don't, I"ll lose everything I have. Who else ... about pain like Tupac. No one knows it like me," he says. "It separates me from other rappers. All that pain I"m talking about in my rap, you can see it."  Apparently, this pain is not just something he works out in his music or in his acting - it's something he ... remi...

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... a play "A Raisin in the Sun." In that play Tupac played Travis. In June of 1986, Tupac's family moved to Baltimore from New York. That is where Tupac wrote his first rap. 3 months later Tupac attended Baltimore School for the arts. That is where he studied ballet and acting. About two years later Tupac moves west of the United States to Marin ... no place in our society." Next year on February 1, 1993 Tupac came out with another album. Once it was released it went platinum. It went platinum on April 19, 1995 along with 2Pacalypse Now but that went gold only. On July 23, 1993 Tupac makes...

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