What would Tupac say?
September 13th, 2007 by Rodney Carmichael in Music news
So much has been said about Tupac in the 11 years since his death (Sept. 13, 1996), so I decided to let the man speak for himself. He tends to be a lot more compelling than the cultural critics, anyway.
As you know (or have repeatedly heard from us cultural critics), he was much more than a “rapper.” Here’s footage of a 1992 speech he gave in Atlanta at the invitation of the local arm of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He talks to the assembled crowd about the different challenges faced by black youth of his era versus those from the Civil Rights/Black Panther era. (His mother Afeni Shakur was a longtime Panther and heads up the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation for the Arts located in Stone Mountain, Ga.)
The highlight of Pac’s speech comes toward the end of the clip when an older person from the audience apparently tells him to watch his language, and Tupac apologizes before saying, “You can’t be no more offended by my cursing than [by] what’s really going on.”
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