Pac
Gambino said:
Just watched some stupid 'pac tribute movie. I never have liked this guy's rap before (and I love rap), but now I dislike it more. although the movie sucked his dick the whole film, it claimed that 'pac was never much of a thug while growing up, kinda quiet. he started becoming a thug after the movie juice...he couldn't leave the character on the screen, he wanted to be a thug in real life...what a poser.
You don't know Pac, you never will.
It's the outsiders who only now can judge the man and who will never see the forest for the trees.
I've followed his career from way back in '90 w/ Digital Underground all the way through his last recordings ala the 'Makaveli' period. He had a hard life as a young child, trying circumstances (absentee father/crack-addict mother), and even though he did do crime, he never claimed to be a saint. He was constantly at odds with himself, with others, with society, with life itself and he only found true peace when he died. Prophetically, he knew he'd die as he lived, hard and fast.........he knew he wasn't meant to live past 30 and it really showed in his music, the urgency with which he lived and he tried, despite his shortcomings to spread a positive message to the youth, in order to help them avoid a life of pain, regret and tragedy.
Please, don't judge Pac for one song, or one movie........judge him based on his whole works, his entire soul and his message. I believe in my heart that he wanted a better life, but he just didn't have the means, the will, nor the time to make that happen. If you truly listen to his words, his final means were to make things better for people, but it just was far too late for him to turn back.
By '96 he was heavily in to the street life, cliqued w/ the Mob Piru Bloods (LA) and was living STR8 Gutter, and it was the gang affiliations that ultimately led to his demise. He foretold of such in his lyrics, multiple times......
"I've been shot and murdered, can't tell you how it happened word for word, but best believe that niggaz gonna what they deserve" (2pac/Richie Rich - Niggaz Done Changed).
“while I reside inside a paradox called My Block, though gunshots is promised to me, when will I stop?” (2pac/Nuttso – Ghetto Star).
Ultimately, when I think of Pac, I feel regret over the loss of the poet, statesman, artist and one of the truest revolutionaries in the rap game. He had the power to unite, divide and polarize people with this words and music. I don’t judge him, as I don’t feel it’s my place, nor my volition to criticize his actions after the fact. Pac was true and always spoke from the heart, no filters, no bullshit, no repentance…….and you have to respect that. Through all the ‘Thug Life’ bravado, I learned that there was much more to him than that street commando image he portrayed, the man had heart. That’s the Pac I’ll remember.
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