GIVE US 2PAC

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On November 18, 1993, Tupac "2Pac" Shakur was arrested for sexually abusing a 19-year-old woman, who he met in a New York nightclub, and allegedly sodomized and sexually abused with three of his friends. In 1995, he was sentenced to prison for up to four and a half years, but received an early release after a few months. In September 1996, the 25-year-old Shakur was shot four times in the chest and died from the wounds.

Previous Arrests·

1992 - Tupac was arrested after being involved in an altercation in which a stray bullet killed a child, but the charges were later dismissed.

·  April 5, 1993 - Tupac spent 10 days in a Michigan prison for beating another rapper with a baseball bat.

·  October 31, 1993 - Tupac allegedly stopped to help a black motorist who he felt was being harassed by the policemen. A fight broke out and Tupac shot one policemen in the leg and the other in the buttocks. When it was determined that the policemen were intoxicated and carrying guns taken from the police evidence room, the charges were dropped.

·  November 18, 1993 - Shakur was arrested on the sexual abuse and sodomy charges and weapons charges in New York City. The sodomy and weapons charges were dropped.

·  November 10, 1994 - Tupac, slated to star in the movie Meance II, punched the director Allen Hughes. He spent 15 days in prison and was replaced in the movie by Larenz Tate.

·  November 30, 1994, Tupac Shakur was ambushed by three black men in the lobby of a recording studio in Times Square in New York City. The men robbed him of over $35,000 in cash and jewelry and shot him five times - hitting his head, groin and hand.

·  On September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Shakur attended the Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon boxing match. Allegedly after the match, Shakur was involved in a fight in the lobby of the MGM Hotel. Later that evening he was shot in his car in a drive-by shooting. He suffered four gun shot wounds and died in the University of Nevada Hospital six days later. Although there was much speculation about the murder being stimulated by an ongoing rivalry between gangs associated with east and west coast rap recording companies, the murder was never officially solved

 

 

                                                             STILL I RISE

Still I Rise lyrics
Dear Lord
As we down here, struggle for as long as we know
In search of a paradise to touch (my ni**a Johnny J)
Dreams are dreams, and reality seems to be the only place to go
The only place for us
I know, try to make the best of bad situations
Seems to be my life's story
Ain't no glory in pain, a soldier's story in vain
And can't nobody live this life for me
It's a ride y'all, a long hard ride

 

Welcome to another web edition of THINKING OUT LOUD, and I'm your host, E. L. Pleasant. Thinking Out Loud, Four years have come and gone and we are still singing the same song that is not worth the breath it is sung in, for we have not over come. The words that I chose the use are not complicated that causes you to have to turn to your Oxford Dictionary ever half page to figure out what this Negro is talking about?  Just look around and I know you see the same things even the blind feel in the black communities.  There are three things that the whites will not put stock in when blacks are concern.  You can have your churches if that will keep you out of ours; you can have your hair salons because we don’t want to touch you unless we are hauling your ass off to jail, and some place to stump your feet and become the fools that you are.  Other than that, they will fight you every step of the way with red tape and zoning laws.  Some of us loved listening to 2pac because regardless of his life style, he was a true poet that was trying to give more than he ever took away from here.   His message for those that didn’t want to listen or were unable to comprehend was a simple one.  Come together as brothers and sisters and love one another, a place where we can call ours.  Don’t have to pretend no more just to get through the day, no police harassing us cause of our color or mean mugging cause we riding four deep just chilling and enjoying life.  That was his dream, totally different from Martin’s.  Since slavery and a thousand marches we still don’t have anything of our own.

 

The rose that grew from concrete Tupac Amar Shakur

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete, proving nature's laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet."

On the contrary, where ever there is a will to live, something will always grow out of nothing, even when you think there is nothing there. The wind blows dirt into the gutters and plants start to grow in a self made bed. You build a house on top of dirt don't mean just because there is no sunlight what was once there will cease to exist, it simply will adapt and evolve into something else. As blacks, that is what we have always done, for God said, "We shall not parish." Yet will still can't come together as a race and my preaching about it only confirms that I stand alone.  For THINKING OUT LOUD, I'm E. L. PLEASANT

 

 

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