And, you know, Suge had his own little-boy complex or whatever, flexing on who's a bigger CEO between him and P. 'I think the fuel on the fire was the record companies,' says videographer Gobb Rahimi, 'because they're the ones that profited the most. I'd tell people to look at the positives. 'There was a beef but we leveraged it to sell records more than anything else.

'The East Coast-West Coast thing was great for business,' says former Death Row Records staffer Alex Roberts. In both cases, suffice it to say, there are ample theories to go around both artists were caught in a nexus of money, crime, music, and ego that existed for legitimate reasons (lack of access to the white centers of industry power prominent among them) but that repeatedly led to tragic violence. The life and career of the late star, who was actually raised as a theater kid on the east coast before moving out west and finding 'California Love,' are inextricably tied to that of his frenemy the Notorious B.I.G., who was killed several months after Tupac in another shooting that was also shoddily investigated and that also remains officially unsolved. So if young folks could connect not to who Tupac was but the process that he was going through, that would actually bring them closer to who he is.' There's nothing more human than being in process and in transition. 'He was a person who was in process and in transition. 'Tupac was not a perfect being,' says scholar Mark Anthony Neal. Shakur was a gentle person who was unafraid of confrontation a non-gangster who also brandished guns a rapper who wrote sensitively about women and who was also convicted of sexual assault and an iconoclastic artist who became an icon. Sadly, he would only ever be young, killed in a still-unsolved murder one September night in Las Vegas. At a pivotal moment for hip-hop, Tupac was both a visionary multimedia artist - the book reminds us that he was an actor and dancer before he was a musician, and that as a celebrity he exercised a Prince-like command over his own image - and a young Black man raised to fight the power. The portrait that emerges in the new book, one of the most-anticipated titles of the summer publishing season, is one of a man pulled in many directions. It's neither a comprehensive biography nor an intimate portrait, but a look back at a brilliant artist gone far too soon - the book's publication marks a half-century since Tupac's birth, and a quarter-century since his death - as remembered by many friends and associates. Pearce lists his sources under the title 'Chorus,' underscoring the fact that Changes is a multivocal exploration of Shakur's life and times. Dan Quayle is saying, 'There's no place in society for him.' So trying to balance the perspective of who this guy is was a priority.' 'At The Source, we could see that he was incredibly intelligent and articulate and a truth teller and very courageous, and so on, but for everybody else, all they could see were the court cases.

'Tupac was like a perfect example of the misunderstood emcee,' former Source editor Rob Marriott told Pearce. If 'contemplative' isn't the first word that comes to mind when you think of Tupac, author Sheldon Pearce and his sources are here to educate you. We also have a book source, but are having trouble getting the information for proper citation.There's a distinctly contemplative tone to Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur. Berger analyzes how different perspectives of how we see things determine how we interpret them, and how interpretation of pictures can change with time. John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” was used to analyze the cover art for Tupac’s song. This article also provided further background and family history of Tupac. This article provided biography of Tupac. Itunes was used for basic song information/genre. We go into depth in our PODCAST about the lyrics, content, album cover, etc. Having been born into violence, he was brought up with the very tragedy. Tupac is preaching the truth, but in a way for others to avoid the life he lived. The song makes references to the Black Panther Party,the war on drugs, the treatment of black people by the police, and the difficulties of life in the ghetto. The song samples the 1986 hit “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and The Range. The song was originally recorded at Interscope records in 1992 and was produced by Deon Evans. “Changes” is a hip hop song by Tupac Shakur.

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