Years of rejection erupted in open rebellion
Years of rejection erupted in open rebellion
IT'S a long way from Brooklyn to the streets of Belmore, Punchbowl and Lakemba, but Tupac Shakur would find much to make him welcome. His name is sprayed on walls and fences and scratched on toilet doors. When concrete is poured, the shorthand follows: "2pac 4ever."
That a dead singer finds eternal life in the adulation of fans is a curious phenomenon. Elvis is that classic cultural oddity. But Love Me Tender in the hands of Tupac, the rapper murdered in 1996, is full of Glock pistols, cops and bad ass bitches, a culture of rejection and victimhood and an intense claim to the unfettered right of revenge.
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