Film Review Chosen Film: Biggie and Tupac Biggie & Tupac (Nick Broomfield‚ 2002) is a documentary styled film directed and produced by ballsy British director Nick Broomfield who goes through great lengths in learning and portraying the real throughout the film. Out of many individuals examining the connections between the murders of multi-platinum selling rappers Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) and Tupac (2Pac) Shakur‚ Broomfield’s account was deemed one of the most in-depth examination of the link
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A Famous Conversation If I could talk to one famous person‚ it would be Tupac. I know Tupac is resting‚ but I have so much I would say to him. I want to meet and have a conversation with Tupac‚ because every other famous person is very rich and changed. They are also greedy and give nothing to the world but stubbornness and hatred. I believe Tupac could have kept rap music from changing the way it is today. Listening to lyrics from Tupac’s songs makes me with that I was able to meet him. I don’t
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English 112B “Changes” by Tupac Shakur The Problem of racism‚ police violence and poverty is still a big social issue. It was worse in 1990s than now but the things are getting better because of some motivational leaders and citizens who gave their life for change. The song “Changes” by Tupac Shakur is one of the more famous songs in history. It is a reference to social issues faced by African-American in the 1990s and some places in present days. Most of the songs by Tupac reflect the racism
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In this essay I will be comparing the differences and similarities between Tupac Amaru Shakur and Christopher Wallace also knows as “Biggie” who both are male rappers and reined a pretty short but yet famous mid 90’s career in the music industry. I first would start off with Notorious B.I.G and his differences from Tupac. Biggie is from Brooklyn‚ NY‚ he was the only child raised by his mother Voletta Wallace‚ who lived in the poverty-stricken projects of Brooklyn. Biggie took to his surroundings
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Song Lyric Analysis Hit Em Up Tupac 1) I know the artist was very mad at a group of people music artists from the east coast. this song was a response they way east coast rappers were making fun of him while he was in prison‚ and to the people the thought may have set him up in a shooting. 2) The speaker in the song is just a first person‚ him calling out other music artists for wrongs he had felt done against him‚ and wanting to get a chance to get even with them for disrespecting him
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Tupac Amaru Shakur immersed in the culture of the African American urban class at an early age surrounded by economic struggle‚ political influence and incarceration. Tupac was born in 1971 and raised in poor inner-city neighborhoods in New York. Tupac’s parents Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland were prominent members of the Black Panther party. Afeni was acquitted on more than 150 charges of conspiracy against the U.S. government but later became addicted to crack cocaine. His godfather was
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Lauren Boike There are few hip hop artists who have had such an immense impact on the music world as Tupac Shakur. The West Coast rapper was born in New York City‚ and would enter the music business through a guest spot on a Digital Underground track in 1991. From those collaborations‚ it was a short step to Interscope Records‚ where he would create another two solo albums before launching into fame and fortune with the group Thug Life. Shakur’s career would be defined by controversy‚ legal problems
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Journal Tupac shakure dear mama Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16‚ 1971‚ in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. During his early childhood Tupac faced many challenges‚ his mother was a crack addict and his farther left them when he was still an infant. Having no one to turn he dropped out of school and started selling cocaine on the streets. At the age of 17‚ hungry for success he began his career as a raper. Soon after his debut on stage‚ his remarkable talent shocked the
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agencies as determined by a government‚ media or other controlling organization(s). In this paper‚ I am going to talk with reference to two different songs by the N.W.A‚ known as one of the most dangerous group on earth from Compton‚ California‚ Tupac Shakur‚ representing west coast and Biggie Smalls from east coast of U.S. The organization/band/member of N.W.A and several of its songs have been already banned for its debatable lyrics and political hostility. Some of its songs were so debatable that
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CHANGES—AN ANALYSIS OF TUPAC Historians and cultural critics trace the post-modernist hip hop movement which pioneered sampling and graffiti art to the 1970′s‚ New York‚ a movement rooted in the black nationalism of the black panthers post civil rights movement (Price‚ 2006). Hip Hop has become a dominant global youth culture with music‚ art‚ fashion‚ films and Tupac an icon within this culture a “Black Elvis”. Hip Hop has many different sub genres such as conscious‚ gangsta‚ party rap and with
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