Tupac Shakur

“I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world’’ - Tupac Amaru Shakur. Accepting your peers for who they are is very uncommon in my school.This is because being in a school is very diverse but not more than the world or the country we live in.People have many things different about them like their personality, sexual orientation, body physique, skin tone, intelligence, talents, age, hair texture, hair length etc. There are alot of things

the Billboard top 100. After MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, Dr. Dre released his album The Chronic, which further pushed hip hop on the airways. The album style later dominated west-coast hip hop, and was adopted by popular artists like Snoop Dogg and Tupac

Born on January 28, 1976, in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Rick ross says that the reason he wanted to be a rapper is because of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.they were two of the biggest rappers when he was coming up so just like them he kept a boom box and blasted it as loud as he could just walking down the street like everyone else. He blasted onto the music scene when his debut

Many poets and Hip-Hop artists use their talents to shed light on controversial topics plaguing the nation, none so more than Lonnie Lynn Jr. or Common. “A Letter to the Law” is a spoken word poem performed by common at the 2007 Def Poetry Jam and speaks on topics such as; Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Foreign Policy. This poem transcends time in the sense that every topic mentioned is still relevant to today which is one the reasons I chose it for the topic of my paper. In Common’s poem

Both groups agree on the fact that you only ttruly die, when people stop talking about you. As stated in the book “...fame after death is the noblest of deaths…” In American culture we celebrate people that have been dead for decades. Looking at Tupac Shakur, he was well known in the 20th century, but kids know of him today in the 21st. He left his mark not only by giving back to his community, he shared his personal insights, with no care in the world about the consequences. Beowulf says one should

In a late Tupac Shakur interview in the early 90’s he said, “it all comes down to we have to survive, we got to survive here in this country, because I’m not going back to Africa, we have to survive here”. Social injustice is what activist stressed during and after the civil rights movement. This paper is going to explore the poem “Mystery of Iniquity” by Lauryn Hill. In this poem Lauryn Hill warns you of the government, and the “free world”. This poem was written in 2002, during which police brutality

Funk music, a style that found its beginning in the late 60’s, is a style remembered and recognised for its influence and innovation throughout the music scene. Funk has multitude characteristics distinctive to its genre, and these characteristics helped aid the evolution of many memorable genres of music, from disco in the late 70’s to the popular music we listen to today but most prominently, in the emersion of hip-hop during 90’s. Both funk and hip-hop similarly manipulate tone colour, texture

specifically, discussing “political rap or gangster rap lyrics”. Notably, rap has been used throughout history to present day; we’ve seen it during social movement like the Civil rights movement and now for the Black lives matter movements. Artist like, Tupac Shakur, N.W.A. and Kendrick Lamar are among those

Drug Problems in The U.S. “The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?”- Glenn Greenwald. The use of drugs through out the United States has gotten worse and worse every year, and I know that in the U.S. it is both a health problem and a crime problem. But I feel like that we should treat the abuse of illegal drugs as a matter of public health

Rap music has become one of the most distinctive and controversial music genres of the past few decades. A major part of hip hop culture, rap, discusses the experiences and standards of living of people in different situations ranging from racial stereotyping to struggle for survival in poor, violent conditions. Rap music is a vocal protest for the people oppressed by these things. Most people know that rap is not only music to dance and party to, but a significant form of expression. It is a source