![]() If it was a different world, I'd write different songs. "I didn't branch out into songs about love or basketball. ![]() But I will not be a victim again."įor 2Pac (pronounced two-pock, whose full name is Tupac Amaru Shakur), there's no compromise: When there's no justice, there's no peace. "I don't advocate senseless violence on any human being. On "Pac's Theme," he not only samples Dan Quayle's damning speech but answers back for the first time in public.ĢPac acknowledges he's paying a price for his outspokenness. Success (2Pacalypse Now boasted the rap chart hits "Trapped" and "Brenda's Got A Baby") and fame (last year he starred in the film Juice and in the upcoming Poetic Justice, directed by Boyz 'N The Hood's John Singleton, he stars opposite Janet Jackson) haven't turned his head either. If anyone thought being publicly castigated by the then Vice-president of the United States, being sued for having recorded a song, and being beat up by police would force 2Pac into backing down from his principles, they don't know this intense 21-year-old. From "Last Wordz," a scorching duet with Ice Cube, who also co-wrote the track with Ice-T and 2Pac, to "Holler If Ya Hear Me" (the first single), "Point The Finga" and "The Streetz R Deathrow," 2Pac proves to be in the ranks of the most socially significant and credible of underground rappers. ![]() (Interscope Records) is just as hard, just as angry, and just as real as his first album. ![]() says, 'We're not gonna stop until they do change.’”."I was a reporter, questioning what's going on and saying, 'If things don't change, this is what's gonna happen.' Look at what I said and look at the news since then. "2Pacalypse Now was a protest album," says the provocative 2Pac of his controversial 1991 solo debut. ![]()
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