this is the best 2pac retrospective i ever read.

[Mike Otherz]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/tupac-shakur-death-anniversary-12669159

 

[Doome]

props...subs

 

[MINT]

big props for this

 

[MINT]

pac is too underrated

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

Tupac seemed too sensitive and reckless to be older than us, yet too meticulously thoughtful to be younger. We knew Tupac would fight for us, with us and against us, when the time came. And we knew he expected the same fight from us, too. We thought he was one of us and looked at him to keep our balance. We looked Tupac Shakur straight in the eye, and he looked back.

"Everybody is smart enough to know that we've been slighted. And we wanted ours, and I don't mean 40 acres and a mule, because we're past that. But we need help. For us to be on our own two feet, we do need help. Because we have been here. We have been a good friend. It's like you got a good friend you never look out for. Everybody needs a little help on their way to self-reliance."

"We gotta take a bigger chance. And when I say American, people think I'm talking about Uncle Sam... I mean you. You! You! You need to check yourself and see how racist you are. It's real."

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Nice read.

 

[Young Bishop]

Subs for later

 

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

Man, this statement right here, Dude was gifted
"Our family crest was cotton. The only thing we can leave behind is culture, is music. Dignity and determination, that's what we have. I feel like I'm cheated. Instead of me fulfilling my prophecy, I have to start one. Instead of me doing a good job of carrying on an empire, I have to build one. That's a hell of a job for a 21-year-old. That's a hell of a job for any youngster, male or female, to have to build an empire for your family."