My Knowledge Of Tupac's Song 'Dear Mama'

Prior to reading this article, my knowledge of Tupac was from his one song, Dear Mama, due to my father's obsession with it, even resulting in it becoming his ringtone. The substance of the song provided me with insight that his father was in jail, his mother was addicted to crack, and he even started selling “rocks” to get money. Tupac wrote about his vulnerability, and his struggle, and having preexisting knowledge about that and then reading this article, my viewpoint changed. I agreed with many of Tupacs positions on society that the author, Michael Eric Dyson made apparent in his article. Specifically Tupac's position of education, and how the education system just teaches and reteaches information, while they could be teaching more