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Tupac Shakur was an American rapper and actor who came to embody the s gangsta-rap aesthetic, and who in death became an icon symbolizing noble struggle. He has sold 75 million albums to date, making him one of the top-selling artists of all time. A sensitive, precociously talented and troubled soul, Tupac was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7, and died six days later. His murder has never been solved. Tupac began his music career as a rebel with a cause to articulate the travails and injustices endured by many African Americans. His skill in doing so made him a spokesperson not just for his own generation but for subsequent ones who continue to face the same struggle for equality. In life, his biggest battle was sometimes with himself.
"I won’t turn the other cheek"
When twenty-five-year-old Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas last fall, he was riding in the passenger seat of a B. The company earned seventy-five million dollars in revenues last year. It had become increasingly clear that there was a steep penalty to pay for having thrown in with Suge Knight. Even for the rough-edged music industry, which has historically been prone to excess and to connections with criminal elements, Death Row was a remarkable place.
Tupac Shakur na one of di rappers wey still dey define di rap game afta 23 years wey im die. Plenti pipo sabi di guy say im be gangsta rapper and na so im represent imself, but for some pipo, im be poet and activist. And for dis time wey di world dey protest racism and police brutality, we say make we look back to some of 2pac songs wey pipo fit relate with today. Tupac write dis song wen dem sentence am to prison ontop accuse of rape. Dis song na song wey im release for , di year im die, for di album All Eyez on Me. E tok about profiling of black pipo dem even as im use di words wey George Floyd make famous "I can't breathe for di song. Dis na one of im most popular songs and e tok well-well on how police dey 'kill black pipo upandan for road' and dem go come call dem heroes. Dem release di song afta im die but up till today, with di death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks, pipo still dey tok wetin Tupac sing for say "I see no changes".
