I still bring up this argument 20+ years after hearing it for the first time.

Feb 4, 2021 6:54 PM

Dude was a rapist

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That man had the truth

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Yeah, this is echoing the sentiment of studies that find poc in inner city areas want MORE policing, not less. They need protection too. >

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Tupac dropped truthbombs

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No wonder someone shot him. Seems we're not ready for that shit.

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The camera is wayyyyyy too close to his face

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I love old rappers they had such a powerful message in their art

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2Pac still inspires me to this day...

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Such an amazing dude. R.I.P

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Work in property management. Agree 1000%

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This might have now impact of he wasn't a convicted rapist.

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Well then if the police arrive help them not go against them

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"The devil grows inside the hearts of the selfish and wicked.
White, brown, yellow and black, color is not restricted" - Immortal Technique

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Another modern poet and lyricist

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Thanks mate have a brilliant day

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Amen brother

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This is the truth!

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"Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger then that, I still wanna see you eat, just not -

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- at my table." That quote stuck with me ever since I first heard it.

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Dude was a Warrior Poet.

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That also encouraged Gang culture and fuckin bitches... We’re all a product of our environment. Some products are better than others

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Gone too soon

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He was very beautiful

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He was #1 on my ex's celebrity sex list....I totally understood.

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Seriously, those eyes are stunning.

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Indeed!

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Ah! The good ol days when the rappers stood for something and not just ott lifestyles, sneakers and hos

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I never cared for for his music but I've always liked what he had to say.

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Go listen to "Unconditional love" , "So many Tears", "Letter to my Unborn child ". He has great music which connects with so many people

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quime element

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I agree with him 100% but how he says crime element makes me uneasy

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Says the dude who shot a six year old in the face.

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While fucked up, it was a malicious shooting according to court docs

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Why did he go to prison for again? The charge that he pleaded guilty to?

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He 1stly witnessed 2 off duty, plain clothed cops beating the shit out of an un armed man, so he shot one of them to help the act 1/2

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& then a women brought up rape charges against him. Even tho there was evidence against him being a rapist, they locked his ass up

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“They don’t give a fuck about us”

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I wanted to post some of the lyrics from this song on a proud boys page and see if they agree with it, i am sure they would

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“Y’all ain’t never just tripped, and looked at the whole picture, the whole situation, they don’t give a.” https://youtu.be/xYdpCv6tRwg

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“All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us”

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... obligatory “shamone!”

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“Then we start to rise, a hero in their children’s eyes, now they give a fuck about us”

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“...we need help cause we dying /. Give us a chance, help us advance cause we trying / Ignore my whole plea, watching us in disgust”

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You want to reduce crime? Provide education and welfare. Give people something to eat and something to lose. Everywhere except the US...

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Costs are less than jail/insurance/oppression. Welfare is spent immediately, straight to the economy, education benefits everyone.

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And then years later you learn of what nixon did to fuck over and set back minorities in the 70s... King died in 68... they fucking know

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This video must have been MJ's earlier days

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MJ? Are you serious? This is obviously Chris Rock!

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Bruh.....that's Tupac

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“They don’t really care about us” is a song by Michael Heehee Jackson. I like the version Junkyard Drive does.

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Video source?

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https://youtu.be/HWNwvBrUUGQ. I'm too impatient

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19:20

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this wasn't 1920, it says 1994 right at the start of the video. DUH! /s

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I believe the world would have been a little bit of a better place with him still here.

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The victims of his violent crimes would probably disagree.

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Convicted of first degree sexual assault...

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Wasnt he young? Dont you think he would have grown up and try to better the black community

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It happened in 93, three years before he was killed. Him and 3 other guys raped a girl. IDC about his age (22 at that time btw)

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Yea dude was no saint. I respect his music but he didn’t exactly practice what he preached

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The same sexual assault by Tupac white people are scared of, black people are scared of.

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Let's call a spade a spade. It was rape.

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Sexual assault is a legal term. Some jurisdictions doubt have "rape" on the books.

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If you say that people get mad...they get mad if you pretend he was anything but the Messiah tho...so yeah, rape

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This is an amazing truth for people to remember. And also insanely hypocritical coming from him, who fully participated in gang bullshit.

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This is how every single gang starts, protection. He probably felt like he had to gang up to stay alive, and it was kinda true.

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"They think we get along with the killers cause we're black?" - Er.. no, because you built your career with:

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You act like it was a choice. Growing up in hoods you didn't have a choice you were recruited from a young age. Few made it out and made /

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Tupac was not an example of that at all.

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Something of themselves. His mom was also a well known black activist Afeni Shakur who was a former member of the Black Panthers

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I call bullshit. Cops show up in the hood nobody knows nuthin. Someone in my neighborhood gets shot every body that saw someone is pointing1

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absolutely happens sometimes...especially the people involved know who you are. However thats not always the case, and black people (as well

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as others) often get lumped in together and assumed they all share the same opinions and beliefs and I'm often assumed to be just like Jamal

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I was actually a juror in a murder trial 2 years ago.The cops legit didnt question the location of the shooting (barber shop) until 9 months

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after the shooting b/c they felt like it was pointless b/c "no one talks anyway." However, there were 3-4 other bystanders who were

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testifying on what they heard or saw. So while yes while some dont comply, other's do, but the police effort was lacking none the less.

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Weird that no one wants to rat out people who might kill them to the people who roll up and harass them for no reason.

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Fingers at who did it. We’re telling the cops everything we know. You want this argument to have credibility then you work with the cops 2/

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You turn in the shooter. You tell the cops why the shooting happened. Stop protecting the killers. Turn those bitches in.

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It isn't always that simple if the killer has friends who can openly target you or if the killer can target you. I was jumped in 8th grade

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And nearly thrown from the second floor of an apt bldg. Called police and nothing had to the three individuals

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How to get your family killed in the projects: a guide

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And who is gonna protect you from the 79 other murderers and rapists that WILL eventually find out you’re talking?

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Comparing it to prison where you live in close proximity too these people and their friends it's not equivalent. It's similar to rich people

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Who allow illegal things to go on in their circles because otherwise it would be social/economical suicide. It's not always easy to risk

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Your life for a cause. If you do you can be an example of why nobody should do it. It's not so black and white if you have lived it.

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Pac told it like it was ? I miss that guy

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Same, and I’m a white boy from Oz.

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He’d be 49

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Convicted rapist, violent thug, that everybody close to him hated (including snoop & Dre). He was talented but fuck that guy.

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Pac or Kanye, which one would you rather have as president

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Pac in a walk.

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Pac

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Pac all day, Kanye is a joke ?

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Kanye’s in a whole other league. Pee-wee

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He’s still alive!!!

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Machiavelli yo.

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User name checks out. +1

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Lmaooo

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I always wonder where his career would have led him, which social issues he could've further influenced. RIP.

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This makes me think of Kobe. IF the helicopter had not crashed , IF he had endorsed someone for president .What would the outcome have been?

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...the same bc no way in hell would he have endorsed Trump and Trump lost 2020. Bigly.

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first i did not say he would have endorsed the Orange stain. I asked a WHAT IF question since there were SO Many candidates at first.

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I didn’t downvote you, but I don’t think celebrity endorsements have really made a difference, have they?

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"Let's change the way we eat
Let's change the way we live
And let's change the way we treat each other"

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He was getting pretty crazy and paranoid, well justified now. But I think he woulda lost it and been insane for a little. Maybe came back

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He became so famous because he was killed. It's fucked, but getting killed is good for your reputation and legacy in a way

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He would have made waves... big changes and done amazing things for today's world.. he was such an insightful/intelligent person. Shame

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I would gladly trade him for Kanye.

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AND 80% of the mumblers.

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Enemies of the status quo die young.

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I grew up in a super white fucked up rural town. Tupac is literally the reason why I resisted the systematic racist programing in my youth.

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a Hip Hop parallel of Tom Morello and RATM? with slightly bigger reach as Rock is always dead for the media.

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Wonder what kind of rap he would have done seeing Obama aka a black man become pos

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probably something of a sequel to changes

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Pac would've been the poet laureate

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But a corporate black man who promised vague hope, and didn't actually change any of the conditions in the hood.

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Sorry for bringing any sort of reality into the circlejerk, guys. I'll probably make the same mistake next time.

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He would've called Obama out. He also would've called Harris out. He wouldn't like them one bit.

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I mean... no one else saying it so.... he was jailed for basically gang raping someone so probably not super far in the #metoo age

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He didn’t have anything to do with the raping. He was having a party at his place where some friends of friends did the raping.

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He'd of probably changed the world 4 the better. Always seemed a smart man with a big heart.

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He went to julliard iirc

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His mom was also a member of the "Black Panthers". The movie "Set it up" was based on her and 3 other women.

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Also very confused, I think mostly because of Suge's influence. Tupac had his gangbanger moments.

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Every gang from prison to the streets starts the same way. Protection. Probably felt like he had to gang up to stay safe.

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There are no heroes, just humans.

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He felt he owed it to him after him bailing him out of prison. A lot of society and people turned his back on him, he was just a kid really.

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RIP 2pac, I hope heaven got a ghetto. Instead a war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me

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*He'd've (He'd have). "of" is always wrong.

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Its short for he would of. Should be have not of but it works as slang for sure. At least in australia it does

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I know what he was wanting it to be short of, but it's still wrong. Saying it's slang is still incorrect; just means you're illiterate.

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Two many people get that wrong.

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Love it

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Mah bad.

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My favorite contraction is y’all’d’ve. TRIPLE CONTRACTION

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W8 , really? , if so , then I welcome u as a grammar nazi :)

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I prefer the term Grammar Communist.

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Grammar Nazi is the only acceptable Nazi.

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Maybe even Potus? Imagine that

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"We ain't meant to see a black president." - he never got to see it. :(

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I adore Tupac but people need to stop thinking entertainment industry celebrities should be in politics

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But being a celebrity doesn't mean they shouldn't either. Everyone should be able participate in our political system.

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I live in the only direct democracy in the world so obviously I agree. But you should have historical and political edication imo

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Hm he had at least some good thinking. Not like some other failed ones. I know he had some flaws too...

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Oh, he was definitely on the right side of things. But not everyone is and should be a politician. Just like not every1 should be a doctor

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Doctor or physician?

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