Mutulu Shakur

Assata Shakur, arrested in the early 1970s for killing a Caucasian state trooper from a shootout in New Jersey. She lived some years in her life in prison until she escaped to Cuba. Escaped to write her intake on the situation at hand and her life. She evolved from JoAnne Chesimard to Assata Shakur for a reason. The reason to stand politically to fight off the society who believed that black could not identified as beautiful, they pertained no rights to healthcare and equal stance in politics. Assata Shakur’s autobiography displayed her past discretions as a woman additionally a black woman. First I will discuss how before she named herself Assata Shakur, her childhood reflected who she identified then as Joanne Chesimard. The first part…

Important Examples in Assata’s Book Assata Shakur, or by her real name JoAnne Byron was an African American member of many black parties. Some being: The Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Party which promote equal rights for blacks and both had many movements in the 1970s, which is around the time Assata was convicted of murder and robbery. This makes her an easy target for reasons behind robbing a white bank. Assata was imprisoned and ending up escaping to Cuba. The FBI have her…

On June 16, 1971, a hip-hop legend was born, by the name of Tupac Shakur. Tupac was born in the ghetto of East Harlem, and later he moved to Baltimore, Maryland when he was 14. Besides being an actor, author and a poet, Tupac was a rap god, arguably the best rapper who ever lived. He sang about his life struggles, passion and pains, and his “Thug Life”, and represented the “West Side”. Tupac had many rivalries with rappers, producers, and record label companies. Most notably with Biggie Smalls…

in the village. The artist, Tupac Shakur is notable in that many of the Cheran youth relate to him: “Alfredo slips in a Tupac Shakur CD, and suddenly the kids are debating in minute detail, the various possible scenarios behind the late hip-hop’s assassination” (Martinez 124). It is apparent that the youth of Cheran can relate to Shakur from what they take away from his lyrics; Tupac Shakur is best known for his lyrics encouraging change and activism toward racism. The lyrics, however, are very…

Lamar. The evolution in hip hop such as topics, tones, and the desire for money and materialism have changed due to time. From discussing the problems in the hood and eye witnessing things to rapping about things that don’t matter like drugs and sex, hip hop has evolved and may as well said is dead. In the 90s, hip hop began to change from the creation of drugs, women, violence, and vulgar language to mainly sex and drugs. The usage of the N-word and calling women “bitches” became more and more…

Kendrick Lamar is a very respected, powerful rapper in the rap game right now. He has a lot of influence on the rap community and to the listeners of his music. He has a lot of different songs that focus around the idea of racism, police brutality, and equality. One of his most well known songs and one of the songs that focuses on racism is his song “Alright” of the album “To Pimp A Butterfly”. The music video to this song is what really tells the story to this song along with the very powerful…

these categories do happen. It does not justify to keep the misogynistic attitude towards women in the genre, however, since it is sexist behavior. Some rappers also have tried to get rid of this behavior as well, both male and female rappers. This fault within Hip-Hop does not only exist in this genre, it exists with other genres that is considered popular culture such as rock or pop, describing women as “the girl next door or the seductress” (Wilson 301). Since it also exists within other…

The companies had ties to gangs, such as the Bloods or Crips, which aided the development and increased the severity of the bad relationship between both labels.The two popular label companies hosted Tupac Shakur (Death Row) and Biggie Smalls (Bad Boy), both already extremely well-known as one another’s rap rivals (Hendrickson 29-31). Tupac, on the West Coast, made many songs attacking the East Coast, and it made a huge impact on this “gang war” (Chadwick). The tension had not always existed,…

song “Self Destruction” in response to violence in black neighborhoods. Similarly, the group Public Enemy Number One advocated black pride through its song “Fight the Power”. However, in the public mind, these songs give way to more violent alternatives like NWA’s “Fuck tha Police”, which said there would be a “bloodbath of cops dyin in LA” (Ice Cube, Easy E, MC Ren). Ultimately, because the violent version of rap drew more attention through controversy, it prevailed over the “socially…

is Eminem’s statement in one of his freestyles stating he knew where Tupac was. “Hip hop ain't been the same since Tupac moved to Cuba on us.” Now we must ask ourselves is Eminem lying? I don't think so. Maybe he wanted us to know the truth. He’s living with his aunt out in cuba doing who knows what. Assatta Shakur is the aunt in cuba who admitted on live tv that Tupac was living with her in cuba.…