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http://www.taylortheteacher.com/2007/10/14/tupac/

This article was written by an author that was about two weeks younger than Tupac. He explains how Tupac’s music was actually accurate when he talked about the poverty in the ghetto and his mother’s life as a black panther. In any case, I learned that Tupac thought that since his embroil was cultivated in prison, he believed, that’s why the police were attacking him all of his life. This article also discusses Afeni, Tupac’s mom involvment in the Black Panthers. The article suggest “Growing up the son of a revolutionary put Tupac in a paradoxical position.”


http://www.hitemup.com/tupac/lawsuit-tucker.html

This document that I read was the lawsuit case that Tupac had against Deloris Tucker. I learned that the lawsuit was filed against Tupac because he wrote a song titled “You wonder why they call you b*tch” and at the end quotes
“Dear Ms. Deloris Tucker
keep stressen me
f**kin' with a muthaf**ken mind
I figured you wanted to know
you know
why we call them hos bitches
and maybe this might help you understand
it ain't personal
strictly business baby
strictly business”
Also, Tupac mentioned her name again in “How do you want it”, sayin “Deloris Tucker you a fake to me, instead of trynna help a brotha, wanna take his g’s”


http://blackpanther.org/legacynew.htm

This article basically discusses the Black Panthers, which was one of Tupac’s influences. I found out that the Black Panther party was an organization that stood up for African-Americans, encouraging them to fight back. The organization was founded by Huey P. Newton.

http://www.2pac2k.de/readytolive.html

This is an interview with Tupac from Vibe magazine in 1996 titled “Ready To Live.” This interview was developed when Tupac was serving time in jail for an alleged rape case. Tupac goes into vivid details as to what actually happen that night and a few nights before. He also talks about how he was presented with a fair case because of his profession, saying that the media portrays him as a “gangsta rapper.” Tupac quotes “I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me.”

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=9JgKKsx8bAkC&dq=tupac+shakur&printsec=frontcover&source=bll&ots=zz_WXwvb-i&sig=H4T79R9606cG8ngDF3Sti1cHNNA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=11&ct=result#PPA48,M1

My fifth source is a book by prfessor Michael Dyson, Titled “Holler if you hear me: Searching for Tupac.” This books was ful of interviews from celebrities such as Larenz Tate, Snoop Dogg and many others. This books talks about Tupac’s early life and why he had the mind he had and why he wrote in such ways that made everybody feel they were in the room with him as the things actually happen. I learned that Tupac read well over 200 books, in different variety.