Pac's speech at the 1993 Indiana Black Expo

[King Kai]

First off apologies if this has been discussed. I find myself coming back to this speech regularly anytime I'm feeling unmotivated or lazy. I get an unexplainable sense of guilt when I watch this shyt because I know I can do better. It really is insane how raw Pac was. This shyt was really in his blood

I urge anybody that hasn't sat through it in full to do so and share your thoughts



2:53 he just goes in and doesn't stop from there. It's hard to sit through this and not feel some type of way

 

[ahdsend]

Black society woulda been much better off these last couple decades if he wasn't killed

especially among the youth..

it's sad everything he overcame in life only to go out to some sucker shyt

 

[King Kai]

Black society woulda been much better off these last couple decades if he wasn't killed

especially among the youth..

it's sad everything he overcame in life only to go out to some sucker shyt

The way he died was so foolish because he knew better

 

[Wild self]

Some powerful shyt

Definitely a child of the Black Panther Party.

 

[WaveGang]

The way he died was so foolish because he better

It's sad as fukk init. Dare I say its not a narrative thats been played out 515156629568962895 times in the community. Nothing worse in life than wasted talent, yeah he made good music but he wasted his talent really.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I shared this with some colleagues from Howard. To me, this speech was a perfect articulation of where the young Black man was at that point in time. I mean, right on down to why the gangs and criminals were being more embraced.

Working and being around the elders from that community I’ve also heard a lot of the things he was saying. Especially about how they turned bougie after the movement and left other behind. How they’d rather pontificate and debate rather than take real substantive action. How standing up and giving yourself to your people comes with great personal risk.

Real shyt, despite how coarse and raw the language is I still think it’s one of the most brilliant speeches I’ve ever heard with regards to explaining why things are how they are. Really makes it disappointing that he didn’t write that Autobiography in prison. Would’ve been one of the most important books in the modern era on some real Hip Hop Autobiography of Malcolm X shyt.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

for this


and breh was so young, had he lived just 15 more years he would’ve done a lot.

 

[King Kai]

I shared this with some colleagues from Howard. To me, this speech was a perfect articulation of where the young Black man was at that point in time. I mean, right on down to why the gangs and criminals were being more embraced.

Working and being around the elders from that community I’ve also heard a lot of the things he was saying. Especially about how they turned bougie after the movement and left other behind. How they’d rather pontificate and debate rather than take real substantive action. How standing up and giving yourself to your people comes with great personal risk.

Real shyt, despite how coarse and raw the language is I still think it’s one of the most brilliant speeches I’ve ever heard with regards to explaining why things are how they are. Really makes it disappointing that he didn’t write that Autobiography in prison. Would’ve been one of the most important books in the modern era on some real Hip Hop Autobiography of Malcolm X shyt.

The visible pain in his face and voice when he talks about seeing his momma cracked out was what really got me.

Wise beyond his years. I don’t know how this kid was able to command audiences the way he was at his age but I have no doubt that he was seen as a threat akin to the revolutionaries he came from.

 

[You Win Perfect]

The way he died was so foolish because he knew better

he was manipulated by a bunch of bum ass c00ns.
pac was smart but his mistake was thinking that everybody black gave a fukk about everybody black

 

[cole phelps]

he was manipulated by a bunch of bum ass c00ns.
pac was smart but his mistake was thinking that everybody black gave a fukk about everybody black

yup

 

[Black Lightning]

he was manipulated by a bunch of bum ass c00ns.
pac was smart but his mistake was thinking that everybody black gave a fukk about everybody black

What's sad is Afeni warned him about that exact thing and he didn't listen.smh


1:58

 

[Makavalli]

First off apologies if this has been discussed. I find myself coming back to this speech regularly anytime I'm feeling unmotivated or lazy. I get an unexplainable sense of guilt when I watch this shyt because I know I can do better. It really is insane how raw Pac was. This shyt was really in his blood

I urge anybody that hasn't sat through it in full to do so and share your thoughts



2:53 he just goes in and doesn't stop from there. It's hard to sit through this and not feel some type of way

Damn didnt finish the whole thing but i need to download this and save it on my phone. This the type of shyt the youth need to hear today

 

[King Kai]

Damn didnt finish the whole thing but i need to download this and save it on my phone. This the type of shyt the youth need to hear today

You know it Show it to anyone that will listen and peep game

 

[ahdsend]