The Panthers were anti-capitalists, and the same can't be said for Tupac. The world of commercial rap elevated Black heroes, but it definitely didn't share the ideals of Black Panther radicalism on every count. In this light Tupac's career was best imagined in strictly political terms: Rapping was race war by other means." ( Source) T.H.U.G. "Some saw him as the benighted successor to Huey, Eldrige, Bobby, and other bright stars of black subversion. "That birthright of Black nationalism hung over Tupac's head as both promise and judgment," writes preacher and intellectual Michael Eric Dyson. Was Tupac following in his absent mother's footsteps? The openly political album featured songs like " Trapped" and " Brenda's Got a Baby" that talk explicitly about racism, incest, teen pregnancy, and prison. 2Pacalypse Now, his first solo album, did well on the charts in 1991. Connections he forged in Oakland got him a record deal. Then, almost all of a sudden, he was famous. Tupac was stone broke, out on his own, and clearly sharpening his tools of verbal criticism. That's the only thing that I'm bitter about, is growing up poor, because I missed out on a lot of things." His mother, he said, "chose to analyze society and fight and do things better. "But since it's not like that, then we're stone broke. "You know if money was nothing, if there was no money and everything depended on your moral standards and the way that you behaved and the way you treated people, we'd be millionaires," Tupac said at 17. Tupac had dropped out of school and was supporting himself and living between friends and the streets. She moved her kids from New York to Baltimore to Marin City in desperation.īy the time Tupac was 17, Afeni was addicted to crack. She shared the name with famous fugitive Assata Shakur, among others. It was difficult to get work with a name like Shakur. Afeni Shakur ended up virtually homeless, staying with friends and family and sometimes in shelters. When the economic recession deepened in the 1980s, Black urban neighborhoods were hard hit. The Party's ideals were not enough to sustain it beyond the political chaos and anti-Civil Rights Movement backlash of the 1970s. Shortly after he was born, the Black Panther Party had dissolved under the pressure of government crackdowns, targeted FBI spying, and the arrests or assassinations of many key leaders. Tupac's ambitions and worldly knowledge soon led him into a hugely successful career, but his smarts came with a steep price. He also had a plan to educate other youth about the issues affecting them, saying "There should be a drug class, there should be sex education, there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on scams religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, but there are not. "I think that rich people should live like poor people and poor people should live like rich people and they should change very week." ( Source) Those who knew him also credit him with teaching other kids in the ghetto about politics and history: "I think adults should go through school again," Tupac said at 17. He succinctly explained the group's goals of bettering the community. Interviewed on camera at age 17, just before his rise to fame, he bragged about Afeni Shakur's wisdoms and political involvements.
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In the early 1990s, a young, idealistic, and bright-eyed Tupac Shakur burst onto the hip-hop scene in full force. She named him Tupac Amaru after an 18th-century Peruvian indigenous activist who had led an uprising against Spanish conquistadors. A month after her release, her son was born. The Black Panther Party ideology advocated armed self-defense against white violence, and many Panthers carried guns and had planned or attempted targeted bombings.Īfeni Shakur, serving as her own defense lawyer, still won acquittal in the spring of 1971, a minor miracle. In 1970, his mother, Afeni Shakur, was arrested along with 20 other New York Black Panther Party activists on bombing charges.
Tupac Amaru Shakur's life had unusual beginnings. Why do you think I wrote 'Dear Mama'? I wrote it for my mama because I love her and I felt I owed her something deep." – Tupac Shakur, 1995 ( Source) I always play my music for her before it comes out. "Look around you in this studio right now. Songs that talk about strong, upstanding women and their pain.
I've written songs that show great love and respect for women, too. Just because I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn't mean I hate women. "In real life, just like in Macbeth, all women are not just pure and true.
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