Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur as a 17 year-old black male before his rise to fame as a rapper, songwriter and actor is recorded expressing his ideas of social equality. He shares that instead of more reading, writing and arithmetic there should be classes about drugs, real sex education, scams, religious cults, police brutality, class apathy, racism in America, why people are hungry, he continues and states that the things that helped him are things he learned from his mother and off the streets…

environment is located which is Harlem, New York. Both authors are accepting of their environments while most people tend to not find beauty in their environment due to all the negatives it presents, but both Shakur and Hughes learned to accept where they’re from and make the best out of it. Although Shakur and Hughes don’t use a common sonnet rhyme scheme in their poems, both authors use a similar ABCDECFFGIIG rhyme scheme to enhance a tone so the readers can get a feel of the poem. Both of…

Tupac Shakur was born in 1971 in New York to two Black Panther activists; you could say social justice ran in his blood. Tupac grew up surrounded by poverty, drugs, and crime but wanted to make a better life for himself, so he did. He became a rapper and in his songs and lyrics he would talk about social issues, for example “Brenda’s Got a Baby” is a song about teen pregnancy and the inability to raise a child, and “Dear Mama”, a song where Tupac discusses poverty and drug addiction in his…

remember the titans this is a story about a football team in an integrated school. The next text was called Changes, in this rap Tupac conveys his point that nothing is changing and how racism is affecting him. The final text is 12 Years A Slave. This is a story about how the main character Solomon was taken into slavery. The four authors of these texts are Boaz Yakin, Tupac Shakur and Steve McQueen. The first aspect I'm analysing is the characters that stand up to racism. The next aspect is the…

relate to these lyrics. One of the most significant examples of influential rap music since the late 1980s is the rapper, Tupac Shakur. TUPAC’S BACKGROUND – HIS PARENTS WERE IN THE BLACK PANTHERS ETC To understand a rapper and the things they talk about I think first of all you should know about them and their upbringing and what life was like for them prior fame. Tupac Amaru Shakur is a really good example of this, as he was seen as one of the most violent and vulgar rappers but also the most…

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” This quote by William Arthur Ward demonstrates the profound impact that adversity has on everyday individuals. Furthermore, this impact is especially visible in the texts, “Divisadero” and “The Rose That Grew From Concrete”, but also in our everyday lives, such as in the devastating form of climate change. Adversity shapes an individual’s identity in one of two ways: by building character strength or by breaking it. Michael…

One way hip hop evolved is the diversity of the styles. At the beginning hip hop in the 1970’s was mostly composed of DJs that mix songs and samples together to make a new music. DJs such as DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Caz and Afrika Bambaataa, were big artist during the 1970’s era. “ They began to develop in the South Bronx area of New york city focusing on emceeing and breakbeats (A sample of a syncopated drum beat, that is repeated to form a rhythm)...DJ Kool Herc Known as…

A famous singer rapped about our society talking about things such as racism, that hold up to today once said, “We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.” Said by Tupac Shakur. We are all in the same position. As a matter of fact, we are all going to die eventually, but we are also graduating. And we are all going to graduate because we bleed from the same veins. Because of a school that works so hard for us to help us get the best education possible. As we graduate into high school,…

Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Black Sinatra: whatever you choose to call him, Sean Combs has used his brain, finesse, and savvy to amass a net worth currently approaching ONE BILLION DOLLARS! The Real DIDDY captures the entrepreneurial mind of Sean Combs TWICE in the summer of 1999. It is THE key period in his life and fundamental to understanding the thought process that drove him to his current stature. The crossroads of life once completely in sync with the music business and the shift…

person’s ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly. A moral compass tells you what is right and wrong. There are people that will judge you based on a single issue. They judge you to see if your moral compass is good or bad. Tupac, Louis Zamperini, and Constancia each had moments that challenged them to change their moral compass. Louis was able to become a better person by overcoming all the challenges in his life. When Louis was younger,he used to get…