Death Row Records

The story told by Death Row Records is a cautionary tale about the grimy realities of the entertainment industry. It’s a story of drug gangs, and persistent harassment by the Police Department and the FBI . The records sold and made millions for the record labels generating more than $400 million in sales as well as making $100 million for annual revenue. But that didn’t mean the artists got paid. Compton didn't bring forth rap, however the music that fell off the streets of Los Angeles in the late 1980s took the lower class to another level, aesthetically and politically. The artist of this newly refined “Rap” included rappers Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Dr. Dre (most of N.W.A). The “G-Funk” inspired beats and explicit lyrics, about drugs,…

The death of Tupac Shakur. Many people have questions and their own theories and some are true and some are completely false. In this research paper I’m trying to break down everything I can as simply as I can for anyone to understand. Using information I’ve gathered from trusted online sources, I will give the whole story from start to finish. I will try my best to get the best and truest information so I can break down this mystery. So, leading to all this craziness, it all started in Las…

Tupac used a style of rap, the way he dressed and his poetry to change the rap industry and changed the way a lot of people seen life for a better way. Tupac Shakur is a rapper who is best known for his contributions to the industry, his rivalry with Biggie Smalls, and bringing rap into the mainstream. He also is well known for creating what we know today as West Coast rap. Sadly, Tupac was murdered and there is no clear evidence as to who did it. Some conspiracy theorists believe he is still…

On Saturday September 7th, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. Pacific standard time, American hip hop artist Tupac Shakur was fatally wounded at the age of 25 years old due to a drive-by shooting during a stop at a red light in Las Vegas. He was struck by four .40 caliber rounds; two in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh. (Staff, 1996) He died six days later from a respiratory failure which led to cardiac arrest after the removal of his right lung in the University Medical Center of Southern…

Photographs were never released of Tupac in the hospital in Las Vegas after the reported “shooting.” Tupac was shot but he had no life threatening injuries. How can you release photos that people can tell he wasn’t in danger of losing his life? The bullets some say were blanks and that he was still wounded. But the wounds were too deep to be blanks and wouldn’t have penetrated Tupac’s body like they did. Suge Knight,(Executive Producer of Death Row Records), never appeared for questioning.…

emotions towards their lives and the streets they live on. Community brings along a very meaningful notion for these rappers, as this is what they rap about. How Rap Lyrics Represent Community When listening to gangsta rap music, or drill music one can read into the lyrics and usually assume that the neighborhoods in which these rappers live must be extremely violent and dangerous. Rappers tend to put on this persona that they are the toughest in their neighborhood, no one can mess with them,…

Many people may think that male rap artists will agree that “A Bitch Iz a Bitch”(Schneider 36) especially because of how male dominant the genre is and some soundtracks signifies this statement. Hip-hop does contain lyrics and images that are misogynistic and violent, however to generalize the whole genre unacceptable with aspects that many other genres share as well is not targeting the obscenity, but is targeting the genre as a way to silence an inferior culture. Censorship, the act of…

The Resurrection of a Legend Not many teens are able to say they were stage dancers and turn into a great rapper, but Tupac Shakur can. Tupac started his career at the age of 17 years old. He was a stage dancer for a well-known rapper and given a chance to rap a verse in a song. After he rapped his verse, many people took notice of his unique rhymes, and he began to make more music on his own. He unfortunately died at the age of 25. I would bring him back from the dead because he accomplished…

Imagine having something that meant something significant. Something that meant something to a large group of people. Something that has been a longstanding part of a culture. Then that thing was given a negative connotation seemingly out of nowhere. This thing could have helped someone through hard times, something that spoke to them or something that has significance in their lives. This is something that people who are fans of rap and hip-hop have to face on a regular basis. In somewhat…

On September 29, 2015, I visited the Tupac Shakur painting at Robert W. Woodruff library. Tupac was a legend and still is even after being desist for over eighteen years. Tupac was born in June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, New York. He was not just a rapper but also a poet, one of his most popular poem is “The rose that grew from concrete.” Pac wrote the poem before he was famous, the poem is about how he came from nothing and sees himself as something beautiful that can succeed from a turbulent and…