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Tupac Shakur's Impact On The African-American Community

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From the big movie screen to inside the booth expressing how he feels, Tupac Shakur left his mark on the African American community. Known for his impact on the African American community, Tupac’s lyrics spoke heavily on issues focused on racial, social, and gender problems. He was seen in movies like Poetic Justice or Juice. While being loved by most, he was also caught up in some of the wrong things and got injured. Throughout his life span, you can see a change in music and behavior that reflects mental health issues. Born in New York but moved to Baltimore due to his mother's addiction, Tupac Shakur enrolled in a prestigious Baltimore School for the Arts and made Jada Pinkett Smith. Due to crime in Baltimore, he moved to California where …show more content…

He was involved in a shooting that fatally killed a young boy, a shooting that wounded two police officers, and faced sexual assault charges which He was sentenced to for 1.5 years to 4.5 years. Not long after getting out of jail and signing to Death Row Records, he was shot multiple times and believed to be a rival rapper Biggie Smalls. With all that being said and all that being done within 25 years, I believe that Tupac Shakur has depression. Depression is a serious mood disorder that affects people and how they feel, think, and handle daily tasks. In his song So Many Tears he starts by saying “If I should die before I wake Please God walk with me Grab a nigga and take me to Heaven” (Tupac Shakur,1995). Throughout the song, she often refers to dying in having Suicidal Thoughts. While going through everything he went through, his music made a drastic change and language and aggressive behavior when dissing rapper Biggie Small and Death Row Records. The symptoms of depression that he showed were Suicidal Thoughts, Increased anger, feeling on edge relentlessly, And increased use of alcohol. with music being his way of expressing his thoughts in his music, a shift and the message was being

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