... 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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... , 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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... 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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