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The Music Industry In Tupac Shakur's Death

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Music industry was not a contributor in Tupac Shakur’s death. Tupac Shakur was a famous African-American rapper, he had got shot for several times, but he died of the last shot he got when he was twenty-five years old. He had also been in jail for sexual charge. Music industry was not a contributor to Tupac Shakur’s can also understand as if he did not enter music industry he would still die.
Tupac Shakur didn't have a good childhood, he was from a single parent family, his mom was a drug addict, she also has a violent boyfriend. Accordingly to "Tupac sacrifice he's bright future at the Baltimore school for the arts to escape his mother's drug use, her treatment by a violent boyfriend, and the trauma of moving from home to home"(Pebble Creek 34). If Tupac Shakur didn't like music at the first place, he wouldn't go to the art school, or school in general. He would be like his mom doing drugs at home. "No matter where the family moved-the Bronx, Harlem, Homeless shelters-Tupac was distressed" (Pebble Creek 34). Tupac was from everywhere, music was the only hope that he had. Without music he would just …show more content…

Famous might be one of the reasons that he got shot, the other reason might be the people who shot him didn't like the way he talks about the society, and it could be jealous. Regarding to Tupac Life through my bloodshot eyes would scared a square to death poverty, murder,violence and never a moment rest(19). Tupac Shakur rapped everything that he thinks in the song, like and dislike. It speaks out the truth but it does get on people's nerves. To say the least of it, Tupac Shakur didn't became a rapper, he could have become a writer or a poet. He would writes the same thing that he thinks, just like what he rapped in the song. Concerning to Tupac, he thinks that “n” word was historically used by whites to degrade blacks(59). Tupac Shakur would die the same when was a rapper, so he will get kill by the same

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