DANM - then I really got nothin’
Equating?
Which one?
Keep ya head up Vs. Yes we can
Not seeing the big discrepency.
The other day I was in Kohl’s and they had a Chuck Liddell shirt right next to a Sesame Street shirt, but I didn’t start a thread about it.
I’m still wondering how someone who comes up with a bizarre acronym for Thug Life is somehow supposed to be poetic (perhaps the Bob Dylan of his generation), even deep.
Ernie will submit him in the first round.
Don’t forget Tupac was only 24 when he died and probably still a teenager when he got that tattoo. And it was a backronym that he came up with later.
So is there any other reason I should be impressed? I googled his lyrics and I’m really not blown away by the poetry of “Ha, ha for the bitches who think it’s all 'bout u.”
He was an extremely prolific writer so googling a few lyrics will not give you an accurate representation of what he was all about.
However, you weren’t a teenager at any time in the '90s you’re probably just not going to get it (although my dad, b.1955 likes some Tupac.)
I was a teenager for part of the 90s–I turned 13 in '98. Maybe I’m just too white for it.
Sorry, there was supposed to be an IF after However. I didn’t mean to sit here and tell you how old you were :).
Tupac seemed to have that rare combination of street smarts and book smarts. He was no Shakespeare, but for a high school drop out that was shuffled from home to home growing up, I think he was pretty damn intelligent.
If you don’t like his music or lyrics that’s fine, but it has nothing to do with being “too white for it.”
A bit off topic, some time shortly after Tupac was killed, my family and I had just eaten at a small diner. While paying the bill, my step daughter picked up what looked like a salt shaker full of toothpicks. It had only one hole in the top, you turned it over and a toothpick came out. I commented about the toothpick shaker and than I hadn’t seen one in a while. A young man standing nearby apparently did not hear everything that was said and told me that Tupac’s last name was pronouned Sha-kur, not shaker. Since then our family refers to the rap singer as Toothpick Shaker.
Well, I’m just going to sit down and laugh over that comment!
I work at Walmart, where, granted, most of the cheap ($4.00) t-shirts are printed in China, but we still have to wonder.
In the women’s department, a tee w/the logo “free ride…free…proud.” Not what I’d want for my teenage daughter.
I saw a good tee in the men’s department, though. It said, “get naked, two-step, throw cornbread.” Fun.
Love, Phil