And I used to wear my bandana like him, and a diamond in the nose. He was almost like a motivation for me,” she said. “I used to listen to Tupac’s songs, all his numbers. Driven from her home by a physically abusive stepfather, Kelly had to find a way of surviving on streets ruled by the powerful 28s gang. Like other study participants, she lives in a community where jobs are scant, government services are inadequate, and violence is common. Take 36-year-old Kelly (names have been changed ), for instance, who started going by the nickname “Tupac” at the age of 14. Listening to his songs, males and females alike find a shared refrain in survival and pride, echoing their personal defiance against racism, violence, and poverty in Tupac’s own voice. To them, Tupac is a symbol that being young, marginal, and black does not necessarily mean also being powerless. A Cape Town-based study published in 2020 in the journal Ethnography found that young men and young women both identify with him. It is men-especially poor young men-that most obviously connect to the masculine aggression that pulses through songs such as “When We Ride On Our Enemies” and “Hit Em’ Up.”īut Tupac’s influence is not limited to men. During Sierra Leone’s bloody conflict, for instance, Tupac t-shirts doubled as uniforms and his lyrics served as battle cries for young fighters trying to emulate the rebellious bravado of their idol in South Africa, members of Cape Town’s estimated 130 gangs still revere Tupac as an embodiment of a powerful “ outlaw masculinity” that valorizes crime, violence, incarceration, and wealth. His legacy on the continent has probably been rendered most vividly in these last two countries. There are also young Nigerians remixing his tracks on YouTube, and murals that have been painted as monuments to his memory in Sierra Leone and South Africa. Youth from Kenya, to Liberia, to Zimbabwe strut the streets in t-shirts bearing his image. Almost 25 years later, he is still very much alive in countries across Africa. When the album Better Dayz appeared in November of 2002, many music critics noted that Tupac had released more albums since his death (seven) than many of the nation's top living artists.Tupac Shakur died on September 13, 1996, six days after a being ambushed in a drive-by shooting on Las Vegas Boulevard. The cross on Tupac's back "Exodus 16:31." "So the people rested on the seventh day." All of Exodus 16 deals with the 7 days. Outlawz= Operating Under Thug Lawz As WarriorzĢPac's double album entitled "R U Still Downwas released on November 25th. Napolean,Mussolini aka Big Syke,Kastro,Kadafi,E.D.I Amin,Komani aka Mopreme,Hussein Fatal On the back of Cathy Scott's book "the killing of Tupac Shakur" there are 7 bullet holes. The bum they found has been missing for 7 years. Pac and Belushi wait in room 7 in the movie.
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In the movie Gang Related with Jim Belushi: In the movie Gridlock the scene in the dinner when they show the menu board for a brief moment notice all the L's in the menu have been replaced with the number 7. It is certainly is suspicious and it must mean something. In the first three seconds of The 7 Day Theory, the words "Suge shot me" are spoken very softly. The only witness who was going to step up and ID the shooter was Kadafi (Yafeu Fula) but he was shot a few months after Tupac.
The first CD after his death has no mention of anything about his death such as RIP Tupac 1971-1996? Wouldn't it make sense to have this in the cd jacket somewhere instead of EXIT TUPAC ENTER MAKAVELI? Intro to the DK 7 day theory there are 7 gunshots going off at the start of the song. His time of death, 4:03, adds up to 7 (4 + 3 = 7). He was shot on September 7th and survived on 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and died the 13th. It is quite a coincidence that the two dates are exactly 7 months apart. Tupac's album All Eyes on Me was released on Feb.13, 1996. This album was released around the time of Tupac Shakur's death.