What did Tupac advocate?

[Bender]

I got the thread idea from Apocalypse Now's Smoking thread. I have never thought of 2Pac as an advocate for cigarette smoking. This brings the question 'what did Tupac advocate?' forth.


The number one answer you will get on a game-show like Family Fortunes - or the American version Family Feud from which Family Fortunes was based - is 'Thug Life'.

It begs the philosophical question of what Thug Life is, and what it means. Tupac himself admitted that the only crime he had been convicted of was fighting. This is aside from his sexual abuse charge and his pending appeal on this case. Thug Life is deep. Tupac said himself, Thug Life is something that you can't sink your feet into. Thug Life to me is founded on resistance. Resistance against the intuition of man. Have you read books like 1984, or seen the movie Equilibrium? Stories like that express the resistance of control over man in its extremities. This is what I think Tupac advocated, his ultimate message. Thug Life is the resisting force against wider control.

Please add to or correct my opinions on what you think Tupac advocated. Smoking? psshhhh! I don't listen to Pac for that. Pac is a lot deeper than that.

 

[raywaters11]

he expressed a lot about treating women good... which is rare in rap music. i wrote a paper on "keep ya head up" and i scored a distinguished on my cats test for it, and basically all i did was quote the song and its importance. it says men should treat women well before we have a race of babies that hate the ladies... i know you all have to know the words so i wont turn this into lyrics.com or some shit. but it made a lot of sense... then on dear mama, he did pretty much the same thing. i think he advocated womens rights, in a sense.

 

[ApacalypseNow]

to me he made it ok to be a thug by glamorizing the lifestyle indirectly

 

[Kadafi Son]

a baccwards bandana?

 

[Kadafi Son]

I just took a look at those Death forum threads. I laughed my azz of at all those alive theorys from I Get Around and shit

 

[S O F I]

The good thing about Thug Life is that he left it open for interpretation. He was never specific about what it means and therefore is why people like it. If you look at EDI Mean's interpretation and Big Syke's interpretation, they're very different, almost contradictory.

I think it's a lot like what Yeshua said. It's the concept of blaming society and government on how the kids in the ghetto came out to be. The society raised the kids this way and that's why they're that way. Product of the environment type of shit. So, thug life would be like a resisting the society and still coming up.

 

[ApacalypseNow]

the coming up part makes your whole statement, right on

 

[Bender]

Tattoos. I don't recall much of Tupac talking about tattoos, why he got/liked them. If anyone can elaborate on this ...

The Thug Life tattoo is obviously dominant. I have heard 2pac mention his 'heartless' tattoo on a couple of occasions. I've even seen the interview where he gets that crown tattoo on his arm. Weather or not he got the words 'trust nobody' done (above/below) at the same time, idk.