I love Tupac...but blaming society for his woes is bullshit. Life is about decisions...if his momma made some bad ones it's up to him and the rest to make better ones. Period.
Interesting.
Whatever... thats why he's a dead ______!!!
A lot of people won't get it because they weren't there...
I really appreciated your comments.
I DO know my shit. Plus guys are really really easy to read.
The irony, of course, is that a lot of these "rap revolutionaries" get co-opted by the very system they profess to be angry at. They become millionaires and self-absorbed consumers of bling. After a while they're cranking out the same tired old lyrics, and communicating them with the same tired old hand gestures and "gangsta" clothes, just so they can make more money and buy more bling. Give me an Eldridge Cleaver or a Malcolm X any day.
I don't listen to a ton of it, but I like rap when it doesn't take itself too seriously. Snoop Dogg is great because he has fun with the music. I feel like an asshole when I listen to Tupac, cause let's be honest, I'm a white bitch living easy in the northern suburbs of Chicago.
- society is more powerful than the individual, and society ain't perfect. It's severely biased against certain groups of people (this is a reality and to deny it I think is just delusional). Those groups of people who have the short end of the societal stick have pretty limited options. True, they can work themselves out of it fair and square, but it takes a tremendous deal more for them to do so, and many simply were not brought up by society to have the necessary resources (education, mindset, support, money, etc.). Over time it can become very frustrating for these groups of people. Of course they want to come up out of their situation and of course they want to do it in a legit way that makes them a functionally integrated part of society, but when they come to see that society itself makes it so that it is especially hard for them in particular, anger is only a natural response, no?
- I don't know. The rap revolutionaries you speak of that get co-opted by the machine they're fighting against...I don't think they really were all that revolutionary to begin with. I'd say almost no hip-hop artist with mainstream popularity these days ever had any significant degree of revolutionary social consciousness. Social consciousness remains underground. Maybe it was different with the gangsta rap movement of the early 90s though.
RYC- Oh yeah, this one is still gonna hurt years from now. I never thought a love that they write novels about was in the stars for me... and when I got it it was destined to fail. That's a raw deal. But you know what they say... the best way to get over someone is to get under someone new.... so I'm going OUT tonight! I want the power back. Now.
I can't begin to understand his struggle,I never went hungry or had to deal with racism.
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I love Tupac...but blaming society for his woes is bullshit. Life is about decisions...if his momma made some bad ones it's up to him and the rest to make better ones. Period.
Interesting.
Whatever... thats why he's a dead ______!!!
A lot of people won't get it because they weren't there...
I really appreciated your comments.
I DO know my shit. Plus guys are really really easy to read.
The irony, of course, is that a lot of these "rap revolutionaries" get co-opted by the very system they profess to be angry at. They become millionaires and self-absorbed consumers of bling. After a while they're cranking out the same tired old lyrics, and communicating them with the same tired old hand gestures and "gangsta" clothes, just so they can make more money and buy more bling. Give me an Eldridge Cleaver or a Malcolm X any day.
I don't listen to a ton of it, but I like rap when it doesn't take itself too seriously. Snoop Dogg is great because he has fun with the music. I feel like an asshole when I listen to Tupac, cause let's be honest, I'm a white bitch living easy in the northern suburbs of Chicago.
@nkleyva -
- society is more powerful than the individual, and society ain't perfect. It's severely biased against certain groups of people (this is a reality and to deny it I think is just delusional). Those groups of people who have the short end of the societal stick have pretty limited options. True, they can work themselves out of it fair and square, but it takes a tremendous deal more for them to do so, and many simply were not brought up by society to have the necessary resources (education, mindset, support, money, etc.). Over time it can become very frustrating for these groups of people. Of course they want to come up out of their situation and of course they want to do it in a legit way that makes them a functionally integrated part of society, but when they come to see that society itself makes it so that it is especially hard for them in particular, anger is only a natural response, no?
@Eccentrique -
- I don't know. The rap revolutionaries you speak of that get co-opted by the machine they're fighting against...I don't think they really were all that revolutionary to begin with. I'd say almost no hip-hop artist with mainstream popularity these days ever had any significant degree of revolutionary social consciousness. Social consciousness remains underground. Maybe it was different with the gangsta rap movement of the early 90s though.
RYC- Oh yeah, this one is still gonna hurt years from now. I never thought a love that they write novels about was in the stars for me... and when I got it it was destined to fail. That's a raw deal. But you know what they say... the best way to get over someone is to get under someone new.... so I'm going OUT tonight! I want the power back. Now.
I can't begin to understand his struggle,I never went hungry or had to deal with racism.
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