Did Tupac face any backlash from the black community after these lyrics?

[Standing on business]

Were people calling him a c00n and a sellout for this during that time


“And they say it's the White man I should fear
But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here”

 

[Secure Da Bag]

No they weren't. Gang and street violence were far worse then than it is today.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

 

[KneeGrow.]

Yeah AOL Chats lit him up for a week straight I remember.

 

[saturn7]

We’re people calling him a c00n and a sellout for this during that time


“And they say it's the White man I should fear
But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here”

No, because people understood the context.

Pac was talking about gang crime and gang related violence he saw in the hood.

 

[saturn7]

Also Pac had a track record of not c00ning and calling out white society.

 

[Danktoker94]

The violence back than was on another level

 

[Seoul Gleou]

i mean, where is the lie? he literally got murked by his own people. he lived a street life where that was a real possibility.

the last label pac deserves is c00n.

but that's the first one for beyonce

 

[get these nets]

We’re people calling him a c00n and a sellout for this during that time


“And they say it's the White man I should fear
But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here”

homicide rates spiked in the 1990s to the highest points in the history of the country
literally fratricide going on


rappers who lived in the areas where the shooters were active(like Pac, who was from Baltimore and Marin City) naturally talked about it in their songs



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Now we on some new stuff
I never fear the ku klux
my own clan is acting up
I blame it on the Philly blunts


Lauryn Hill

 

[east]

nah, like @saturn7 said the context was well understood. i think the worst backlash pac got was after calling civil rights activist c. delores tucker a mf cause she was pro censorship and tried to block the naacp from giving pac an image award.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Early 90s gang violence was on another level during that period.

 

[spliz]

“I can’t lie, I got no love for the other side..”
literally the next line over. Smh.

 

[spliz]

nah, like @saturn7 said the context was well understood. i think the worst backlash pac got was after calling civil rights activist c. delores tucker a mf cause she was pro censorship and tried to block the naacp from giving pac an image award.

She was an opportunist and tried to eat off destroying Pac and the like.

 

[ThatTruth777]

that's cacs favorite song and line of his

 

[TheNig]

It's amazing that this dude lived 4 different lives by the time he was 25 yrs old.