About the contradictions in Tupac's songs, you have to understand that Tupac was a person that was made and raised by the ghetto. It shaped him into a person that inhereted the evils of the ghetto. It made him into a angry and sometimes violent person. BUT, Tupac was different from other ''thugs'', if you will, because he understood WHY he was that person. Many people in the ghetto have a very shallow understanding of the world around them, because they're never challenged to think. Tupac did think. He was a ghetto genius, with flaws. But you can't blame him for those flaws. I mean who can grow to be a perfect person from the conditions he came from? He had a beautiful metaphor for this, which was the rose that grew from concrete. The rose has damaged pedals from growing in such a harsh environment, but nobody would think ''what an ugly rose look how fucked up its pedals are'', you would celebrate its will to live. Tupac was truly the rose that grew from concrete. Eventually though his lifetsyle that was taught to him by the ghetto caught up to him and he died at 25, like many people in the ghetto do. We should forgive Tupac for his life of crime, "Don't blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it".
About the contradictions in Tupac's songs, you have to understand that Tupac was a person that was made and raised by the ghetto. It shaped him into a person that inhereted the evils of the ghetto. It made him into a angry and sometimes violent person. BUT, Tupac was different from other ''thugs'', if you will, because he understood WHY he was that person. Many people in the ghetto have a very shallow understanding of the world around them, because they're never challenged to think. Tupac did think. He was a ghetto genius, with flaws. But you can't blame him for those flaws. I mean who can grow to be a perfect person from the conditions he came from? He had a beautiful metaphor for this, which was the rose that grew from concrete. The rose has damaged pedals from growing in such a harsh environment, but nobody would think ''what an ugly rose look how fucked up its pedals are'', you would celebrate its will to live. Tupac was truly the rose that grew from concrete. Eventually though his lifetsyle that was taught to him by the ghetto caught up to him and he died at 25, like many people in the ghetto do. We should forgive Tupac for his life of crime, "Don't blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it".