Tupac Shakur Rare, Raw, & Uncut 23rd Annual Indiana Black Expo Speech, 1993
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MooseMouthMthafuga
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Pac is practical & charismatic.That's what I always liked about Pac.He had the ability to truly be vulnerable & speak from the heart.
He could express the full spectrum of human emotions.Chuck D is your typical "kick knowledge"/parrot what I read in Message To The
Black Man type cat.Not saying there's anything wrong with that, but as an orator, he wasn't as universal as Pac.In many ways, Pac
was the anti "Knowledge kicker".Breh was beyond that.At the opposite end of the spectrum, you become free to speak your truth.
That's why he always had a unique, original perspective.He was more about internal sources.Any external source, books etc etc,
was used as a guideline to better help him dig up his own guts.Most people aren't gutty like that.They intellectualize and repeat what
they read or heard somehwere.They can't unplug from the matrix long enough to conjure up any original thought.That's what really fuels
your passion.Just look at Pac.His music was practical, visceral, honest, humane.He wasn't preachy or trying to "school ya" with his intellect.
You could learn a lesson from his vulnerability/testimony, but he didn't force it on you with concepts like "Supreme Allah" "Afrikkan Bambatta"
"Wise One" slogans.I think he was already at a place where most people can't make it.Ironically, that can lead to you falling apart in a worldly sense.
The world's not ready for people like that.Most are really sheep..Or think they have knowledge from letting another outside source shape their perspective.
Can't look into their own soul.No sense of spirituality.Nothing
what do you mean the NFL doesnt have respect for black people?
because of Kap?
Look at that brothers eyes when he lights up during his speech. Pac was a rare breed of speaker
Pacni99a12
All Star
Lol at near the end when when Pac talking about people claiming to be down for the struggle but not looking out for people kids when the parent gets locked up. Khalid Muhammed was like 
Amor fati
Superstar
Because they are weirdo ass pretentious punks.
Greenhornet
A God Among Kings
I play this for younger kids I record music with when they swing through
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Dunno. If he didn't get shot, he'd still likely have the rape case right? Being in jail during Biggie's rise, and being bailed out by Suge/Death Row, would likely still lead to some type of fukkery. Maybe he wouldn't have stomped a crip if he didn't have as (allegedly) personal of a connection to everything (ie being shot) but who he would have still rode hard for his team and made the same fatal mistake. Who knows.
Who knows whether he could have made the impact we assume/wish/hope he could have made if he had lived. I can see his plan...of getting involved in the gang shyt to try to make peace at some point, but he got too far in and straight up disrespected a bunch of crips. There's this idea of called the "great man theory" which says that history is shaped by the fates or decisions of great men. People who believe often point to great men who died before they could achieve their destiny and re-shape the world. For instance if Robert Kennedy didn't get assassinated in 1968, he would have almost surely won the presidency and altered American history (Vietnam, civil rights, etc). Or would he?
With Pac, what would he have accomplished? Could he unite the gangs or at least get a truce? Could have spur black political consciousness? Could he spark more black ownership in the music industry? We don't know. Personally I don't believe in the great man theory of history, I think history is too complicated to pinpoint one person as the dominant factor for multiple historical moments, and in the end it feels too much like hero worship for me. But I definitely believe Pac could have done SOMETHING great. I don't know what it would be tho.
Take It In Blood
Banned
If Pac was never shot in 94 I honestly see Pac signing with Badboy in Jail instead of Suge since he was closer to Big and Puff than Suge at the time
He was showing up to Puffs birthday parties just a year before
Dr khalid with Bro Tupac in one place..!!!!
rest in paradise to the two strongest and gifted plus wise Kings!!
rest in paradise to the two strongest and gifted plus wise Kings!!
Nope
Almost all of Pacs recorded speeches are profound as fukk. PAC the only cat in hiphop history where is speeches are almost as profound as his music. PAC had Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr type talent when it came to public speaking. No one has come close as far as rappers are concerned.
pac said what nikkas wanted to hear...like preachers..they tell the congregation what they want to hear..whole time sliding dikk in deacon fry daughter and wife
pac talked that black shyt....all while in bullshyt beef that ended up causin more drama with black vs black...
If Pac was never shot in 94 I honestly see Pac signing with Badboy in Jail instead of Suge since he was closer to Big and Puff than Suge at the time
He was showing up to Puffs birthday parties just a year before
that's assuming he even wanted to sign with em in the first place
cuz interscope & time warner bailed him out to death row
you think arista woulda put up the money?
pac risked his career for some random black man gettin his ass beat by two off duty cops
probably had flashbacks from when got his ass whipped for jaywalking
he got sidetracked at the end with the gang shyt tho
but that bad boy beef was mutual back n forth
when cats are throwing rocks & hiding their hands like little kids.. how else u gonna respond?