TUPAC LYRICS KEEP YOUR HEAD UP FULL
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Keep your essence.” -“Me Against the World” “Don’t settle for less, even a genius asks-es questions. “My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find something to die for.’ ” -“Something 2 Die 4” He just knew, I believe, that he wasn't going to be on this earth for a long time, so he came with a certain purpose - contradictions, complexities and all - and he left behind something that has touched generations of people.'Just 'cause you're in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow' #Tupac #2PACĪ post shared by Tupac Shakur on at 8:04am PDT Even when he was in prison, writing screenplays. I think he knew from the very beginning, 'I have a very short window to live, I've got to create a body of work.' He was constantly producing, constantly writing, constantly in a recording studio. On Tupac's efforts to build his own legacy What man do we know that, at 23 years of age, would actually say something like that? And so I really believe that, had Pac lived, he would have turned some corners in his life around these different issues that dogged him, because he carried around a lot of complexities. For example, when he was charged with that sexual assault case in New York City back in the '90s, one of the things he said to me in the famous prison interview from Rikers Island is that he takes responsibility for not stopping those men, his so-called friends, from doing what they did to that young lady, and that he was guilty of that. What was different about Tupac is that he spoke very openly and honestly about it - not just in his music, but in his conversations with people - what he was trying to grapple with and trying to figure out. Music Interviews Reflections On Tupac From Afeni Shakur It was very disrespectful, but it represented the contradictions that many of us as men face in this society. And he grappled with that, because, again, you can hear, in 'Keep Ya Head Up,' him talking about being in support of women - but then you turn to a song like ' Hit 'Em Up,' and he's talking about being violent toward his rivals and having sex with one of his rivals' wives.

And so Pac was actually very much in that tradition, unfortunately, of us who are men in this society, who have been socialized through patriarchy, through misogyny, through sexism. In a lot of ways Pac was no different than what we heard in the blues, jazz music rock 'n' roll that came before, because all those music forms also talked about violence, were disrespectful toward women. On the contradictions represented by the violence in some of Tupac's lyrics

And so he was out there trying to find his way as a young man without a father figure, and it was difficult, and he talks about that in this music.

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And she's such an important figure - she helped shape his political consciousness, but also there's the dynamic of their separation and moving about, because she became addicted to crack cocaine. He was born a month after Marvin Gaye released What's Going On, and in a lot of ways that album is a soundtrack for who Tupac and Afeni were as mother and son. And he was literally born in the midst of all the upheaval in our country at that time. She was in prison for her political activities in 1971, and just a month before Tupac was born, she was finally released. On Afeni Shakur's role in her son's life and music

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And that was Pac's uniqueness: his ability to weave in different scenarios and to paint this full picture of a community, over and over again.

But he also - it's an autobiographical song about being a young black male growing up in inner-city America. It's a pro-feminist song he talks about being pro-choice in this song, he talks about being anti-street-harassment in this song. 'Keep Ya Head Up' a song that is really an ode to women.

Tupac lyrics keep your head up