Yes it is too bad he left us so soon. I guess that is what road his life led him down.

As a general comment, I don't like rap. I was fortunate enough to have grown up without the automatic connection between anger and violence. It took being married with someone who had a very strong anger/violence connection and who went through a lot of counseling over it for me to understand (and experience) that connection. I find that rap in general embraces that connection, thus it does not connect with my heart because of the messenger.

That said, I think you will find as you grow older that all (non-psychotic) human beings tend to have the same wants/needs, but that sepcific socialization allows for only specific types of expression. A piece of 2pac's inner self may have come out via his music, much like any good authors puts a piece of their emotional self into the story. In reality this just makes him a good artist. That he was human, that he had feelings, that he had pain is a given; he was human. Whether or not he was a good person, can only be decided based upon his behavior and choices

:king: Snow Dog

"All this machinery

Making modern music

Can still be open-hearted

Not so coldly charted

It

As a general comment, I don't like rap.  I was fortunate enough to have grown up without the automatic connection between anger and violence.  It took being married with someone who had a very strong anger/violence connection and who went through a lot of counseling over it for me to understand (and experience) that connection.  I find that rap in general embraces that connection, thus it does not connect with my heart because of the messenger.

 

That said, I think you will find as you grow older that all (non-psychotic) human beings tend to have the same wants/needs, but that sepcific socialization allows for only specific types of expression.  A piece of 2pac's inner self may have come out via his music, much like any good authors puts a piece of their emotional self into the story.  In reality this just makes him a good artist.  That he was human, that he had feelings, that he had pain is a given; he was human.  Whether or not he was a good person, can only be decided based upon his behavior and choices

 

:king: Snow Dog

 

"All this machinery

Making modern music

Can still be open-hearted

Not so coldly charted

It

Yes it is too bad he left us so soon. I guess that is what road his life led him down.

To bad he couldn't turn around before he got to the end