DJ-Mista-Em;7366932 said:
those pastors aren't tryna reach hood niggas though; malcom x and MLK wasn't any different then pastors we have today...just go to ah black church if you wanna hear ah 2014 MLK speech...
if ah real street person go to ah pastor, the pastor will brush him off...thats why i don't pay tithes to pastors, i give my tithes to folks in the streets...
2pac talked directly to "niggas" and "bitches" though...he spoke the language of the hoods...the people you quoted tryna communicate with middle class black people
Nonsense. Go to YouTube and download any Malcolm X speech. He had a way of reaching the poor and uneducated. the Nation of Islam reaches the people you speak of. Malcolm X served 77 months in prison for burglary so to suggest that he couldn't connect with "hood niggas" is absurd.
blackamerica;7366936 said:
Get off Pac dick. The man was only 25 when he died. Any nigga that's that young talking about uplifting the black community may not be as polished as a Malcolm, but he's still spitting that real shit. Again, Pac was a baby
Martin Luther King was 26 years old when he lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott so you can't use age as a crutch. In fact, Martin Luther King was a Reverend and had a Ph.D at 26 years old.
We can debate this for another 10 pages but anybody that takes Pac's side is going to look foolish when it's all over.
And another thing, KRS One, Chuck D and a handful of other rappers put together the Stop The Violence Movement and recorded the classic song Self Destruction. Tupac basically undid what they accomplished. Chuck D was saying "Fight The Power" and KRS was saying " Stop The Violence" and " You Must Learn" when PAC was a background dancer for Humpty Hump. It's not like Tupac brought anything new to the table, he just caused confusion and now a whole generation of rappers want to be thugs and gangstas. He set the black community back 50 years.