certain songs resonate bittersweet memories. As I express my feelings through music‚ it is evident that some songs hold much more meaning. We can all believe in a song to express our feelings‚ and that’s how I experienced and processed many of life’s changes. Some were sad and others were happy; in the end‚ I found that all I have to worry about is today. To dream of success is typical for me. As a young‚ unwed mother‚ I decided that I needed a career which would give me monetary success in order to
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on the dash roll a roller do a line.It has long been rumored that the late rap icon‚ Tupac Shakur‚ faked his death and was living in hiding. There have been many Tupac sightings over the years and stories of his survival‚ and now after 17 years we have photographic proof the late Death Row artist is indeed still alive and well in New Orleans. In this photo‚ snapped last weekend on Frenchmen Street‚ an aging Tupac can be seen passed out in a chair outside local nightclub Cafe Negril. Several tourists
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Hip-hop star Christopher Wallace best known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G was involved in an East Coast conflict with the rapper Tupac. Months after Tupac’s death‚ Biggie was about to release his second album just before he was gunned down and shot by what is now said to be Tupac’s gang. He was shot while leaving a party in Las Angeles en route to his hotel. Once the album got released‚ its popularity bumped it all the way to number one on the charts. This helped make Biggie Smalls one of
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Do Not Judge a Book by Its Cover "What you see is what you get" is a saying that rings in a person’s head when they see someone that looks strange‚ or just different‚ from them. In those cases‚ society is quick to "judge a book by its cover". We see tattoos and piercings on people and automatically assume they are somehow a bad influence or just an evil person. We perceive people with tattoos and piercings negatively because we have been conditioned by society to accept this stereotype‚ which
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shooting on former friend Tupac Shakur. His hip-hop career was focused by the struggle between Bad Boy Records and Death Row Records‚ which occupied most of his life. Tupac was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7‚ 1996. Rumors of Biggie’s involvement in Tupac’s murder were showing up almost immediately. Biggie Smalls‚ age 24‚ was pronounced dead at 1:15 A.M. On Sunday‚ March 1997. He was cut down in a fashion eerily similar to that of Tupac Shakur: on a crowded street
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Tupac Shakur was born June 16‚1971 in East Harlem New York. He died at the age of 25 on September 13‚ 1996 in University Medical Center of Southern Nevada Las Vegas.The cause of his death is a drive-by-shooting .Tupac is also a rapper and write poems. His stage name is known as 2pac and Makaveli. Shakor sold over 75 million records and make it the best-selling music artist. In my poem I was unable to find when the poem was published. There is two stanzas in the poem. This don’t have set patterns
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eyes of a black person. Originally‚ rap and hip-hop had a mission of uplifting the urban youth through music‚ but as it became more popular‚ it started to move away slowly from that goal. Where rap groups once brought fans together to work for social change and meaningful discussions on current events‚ most raps today is used as a tool of exploitation that promotes negative behavior‚ sexist attitudes‚ and criminal activity. Hip hop and rap music generally pushes teens into thinking that it is cool
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Patrick Wyszynski Doctor Todd Bruce ENG 111-68 5 October 2014 Hidden Intellectualism: A Summary During my lifetime‚ I’ve been referred to as “book smart” once or twice. For many years I thought this was preferable to the less flattering “street smart” label. However‚ Gerald Graff‚ a professor of English and education at The University of Illinois at Chicago‚ argues in his writing Hidden Intellectualism from his 2003 Book Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind that
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Makaveli? The predetermination of Tupac Amaru Shakur that his life or death would lead to the beginning of a wide spread phenomena of a thug nation created by his definition. Tupac’s name originated from the politician‚ Niccolo Machiavelli who was born on May 3‚ 1469‚ in Florence‚ Italy. His life was dedicated in his passion to politics. The Phenomenon of a reincarnated soldier goes beyond the definition of his accredited name. The Makaveli era of Tupac was his verbal will-in-testament to the
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life that can be portrayed by a majority of cultures across the world. Some exemplars can be revenge‚ sorrow‚ and brotherhood. The short story “Civil Peace‚” the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night‚” and a rap made famous by the rapper Tupac Shakur entitled “Me Against the World” all share a prevalent universal theme. The theme to these influencing pieces of writing is “Never Give Up.” “Civil Peace” is a short story written by a Nigerian named Chinua Achebe. The story tells about a man named
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