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Tupac the musician:
Dead:
Lyrics "Changes"
And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace?
There's war in the streets and war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs
So the police can bother me
And I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do
But now, I'm back with the facts givin' 'em back to you
Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up
Crack you up and pimps smack you up
You gotta learn to hold ya own
They get jealous when they see ya, with ya mobile phone
But tell the cops, they can't touch this
I don't trust this, when they try to rush I bust this
That's the sound of my tool, you say it ain't cool?
My mama didn't raise no fool
And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped
And I never get to lay back
'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
Some buck that I roughed up way back
Comin' back after all these years
Rat-a-tat, tat, tat, tat, that's the way it is
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is
Aww, yeah
That's just the way it is
Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is
Aww, yeah
Some things will never change
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
'Cause mo' black and white is smokin' crack tonight
And only time we chill is when we kill each other
It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain't ready, to see a black President
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
But some things will never change
Try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game
Now tell me, what's a mother to do?
Bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
I made a G today, but you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin' crack to the kid, I gotta get paid
Well hey, well, that's the way it is
Come on, come on, that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is
Aww, yeah
Come on, come on, that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is
Aww, yeah
We gotta make a change
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
And let's change the way we treat each other
You see, the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
What we gotta do, to survivem
Come on, come on
I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living, should I blast myself?
I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black
My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers
Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other
It's time to fight back that's what Huey said
Two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead
I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere
Unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
And that's how it's supposed to be
How can the devil take a brother, if he's close to me?
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids
But things changed, that's the way it is
Come on, come on, that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is
Aww, yeah
Come on, come on, that's just the way it is
Things will never be the same, that's just the way it is
Aww, yeah
I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under, I wonder what it takes to make this
One better place, let's erase the wasted
07.09.1996
four shots hit him after he
watched a fight of Mike
Tyson.
13.09.1996
He died after many
emergency operations.
Interpretation:
- he shows the bad reality of blacks
- he show how it should or could be
(utopia)
- he appeals to the people to change their life
- he thinks the situation is hopeless
Tupac Amaru Shakur
Rap in the roots:
Discography:
1991: 2Pacalyse Now
1993: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
1995:Me Against the World
1996:All Eyez on Me
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
posthumously:
1997: R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
2001: Until the End of Time
2002: Better Dayz
2004:Loyal to the Game
2006:Pac´s Life
Comes from the african culture, "work songs"
1920 - rap in early blues recordings
1960 - influence of civil rights movements
1970 - slang
1990 - rap deals with the life of blacks
sources:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_vs._West_Coast
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur
http://www.songtexte.com/uebersetzung/2pac/changes-deutsch-13d6bd65.html
http://www.songtexte.com/songtext/2pac/changes-53d65b51.html
http://www.jackson.ch/tupac.htmhttp://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/young-outlawz-admit-smoking-tupac-shakur-ashes-mixed-marijuana-1996-article-1.950906
https://exploregram.com/remembering-tupac-amaru-shakur-june-16-1971-september-13-1996-2pac/
https://www.pinterest.de/explore/tupac-shakur/
https://www.homeadvisor.com/c.San_Francisco.CA.html
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Tupac_drawing_by_Makaveli75.jpg
https://www.pinterest.de/pin/526850856387447207/
http://www.jackson.ch/tupac.htm
http://www.therealbest.com/items/di/548?title=Tupac-Amuru-Shakur&b=102
thank you
for your attention!
Message & attitude:
Tupac`s childhood & life:
Born: 16.06 1971 (Brooklyn, New York)
First name: Tupac Parish Crooks
Second name: Tupac Amaru Shakur
Pseudonym: 2Pac, Makaveli
Occupation: rapper, poet, actor
Dead: 13.09 1996 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
He reflects his own experience he did with the legal system in the USA and the life as a black without money and friends.
His aims:
- show the social inequality
- make the people be proud of them self
- make the people take their life in their own hands
- resistance against inequality
Early years:
- constantly changing stepfathers
- many changes of locations
- 1976 primary school
- 1983 he discovers acting and sealing for itself
- 1986 "Baltimore School for Performing Arts"
- 1989 early school leaving for money
- Slums of Oakland