Tupac Analysis

  Tupac Shakur was one of the most successful hip-hop music artist of all time. He came from a very diverse background; Tupac lived in the most violent and disadvantaged communities in America. His harsh childhood experiences are what determined his ethnicity and interests, and why he got into hip-hop. Shakur uses his own dialect to express the way he feels through hip-hop, where he wrote songs about all the violence and the harsh life of his community. Tupac even talked wrote about racism against his own race, how the upper communities looked down on his race and how they judge a black person from his external looks especially the way he talks. Shakur wanted to stop all this through his music and to represent and honor his race, to stop the racism.

Tupac clearly shows in the video that he is from the black community, and he takes pride to stand for them and speak about the violence in his city. When he was talking about when he got shot, he never expected that to happen and was shocked. He said “I always believed no black person would ever shoot me, I was their representative. I believed I didn’t have to fear my own community”. He shows that he takes honor in representing black people. He always thought of himself as someone from the black community. Although his own community betrayed him he never lost his loyalty and his pride in his own race. he said “How can I make them sorry for what they did? How can I come back 50 times stronger and better?” this shows his commitment to his community not looking at the violence he got from them, but looking for the best for them. He wrote a piece while in jail about all that has happened to him.

Tupac loves his own community and race, he never thought of getting shot by one of his own color. Because he thought that he represents them. He wrote music pieces where he expressed how he felt, and he never betrayed his community.