Searching for Tupac

[Connolly]

Interesting!

"Searching for Tupac" explore's Tupac Shakur's effect on Hip Hop in Habana, Cuba and discovers his family's history of involvement in the Black Panthers. While in Cuba the filmmaker talks with two political exiles living abroad."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_tLaoCQbBs

[Juliasunday]

Yeah, it's very interesting for me, but could you, please, tell right here what it is about. I don't watch videos in the internet when i'm home. it's too expensive 4 me.

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 22, 2007 11:36 am
Yeah, it's very interesting for me, but could you, please, tell right here what it is about. I don't watch videos in the internet when i'm home. it's too expensive 4 me.
How do you mean? It's free to watch...though if you mean your connection-speed is too slow here's a quick summary:

The interviewer tries to find out if Tupac is in Cuba or not, so a few people are interviewed on the street, and they talk about his revolutionary roots through his mother and other people he was involved with that were in turn involved with the Black Panthers.

That's about it, nothing conclusive is proven, it's a short video.

[emceesquared]

...how the hell was tupac revolutionary? just a question, because im heavily into hip hop, and the guy was a middle class poet who turned 'thug' after he became famous. And the closest thing revolutionary about him is the fact that assata is his godmother and is living in cuba

[Faux Real]

He disliked what he saw going on in the streets, racism, segregation, poverty, and lack of choices for people stuck in the ghetto. He may not have been "revolutionary" but he sure as hell wanted social change, I've never heard anything on himself identifying with any sort of political ideology. Certainly the BPP influenced him.

[Hampton]

Middle class? And his mom was a member of the Panther 21.

[More Fire for the People]

2Pac was America's Gramsci, a street intellectual, well-versed in Shakespeare and dope-dealing, Machiavelli and gang violence and most of all: living on the wrong side of capitalism.

[emceesquared]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26, 2007 02:05 pm
Middle class? And his mom was a member of the Panther 21.
the only good thing about his mom was the fact that she was a black panther, other than that, she took tupac to live with her, not his dad who lived in a nice neighborhood

and tupac spent all his time inside not actually being in the streets, then when we became famous he got into thug stuff, don't see how thats revolutionary

[Hampton]

So his mom has no redeeming qualties except that she was a Panther thirty years ago? And define in the streets. Because he lived in a house and wasn't living in a cardboard box he is middleclass?

[Asoka89]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29, 2007 01:06 am
So his mom has no redeeming qualties except that she was a Panther thirty years ago? And define in the streets. Because he lived in a house and wasn't living in a cardboard box he is middleclass?
haha well put, if anyone been to the neighborhoods in Oakland he spent years in or back in NYC were he first grew up, you wouldnt call him middle-class

[Vanguard1917]

2Pac was America's Gramsci

Not quite. Antonio Gramsci was a great revolutionary leader and theorist.

Tupac was a confused young man - very confused at times - who wrote some very good rap songs.

[Asoka89]

heh Dear Mama doesnt quite equal Gramsci's Hegemony, but they are pretty damn close lol

[Vanguard1917]

For me, it's the excellent use of metaphor in 'Me and my girlfriend' and the first-rate mastery - at least in hip hop terms - of the art of storytelling in 'Shorty wanna be a thug'.