DA BEST OF

On this day in 1996 Lesane Parish Crooks a.k.a Tupac Shakur a.k.a 2 Pac left this earth (allegedly).  Controversy, poet, revolutionary, MC, actor, prophet, role model (fuck what anybody else says), genius 2 Pac was all of these things.  Pac brought a divine insight to this thing we call hip-hop. Son of Black Panther, raised by the streets, Baltimore School of the Arts attendee Pac was raised in a complexity that would define his life and his music. An interesting thing happened in the wake of the passing of both 2 Pac and Biggie…hip-hop matured for a brief moment in time thus making them martyrs of sorts.  Since then it seems we have lost that maturity that Pac always strived for us as a people to achieve (minus the Death Row years). As I sit back and think on Pac the activist and revolutionary I think of what Pac’s reaction would’ve been to some of the major events that have affected our people since his demise. How would Pac react to: The Jena 6, Hurricane Katrina, September 11, Barak Obama’s Election, Fox News (lol) etc….  I would also love to see Pac’s reaction to the state of hip-hop and some of the clowns major players in it.  How would Pac receive: Kanye, Eminem, Lupe Fiasco, Rick Ross (think I know the answer to that one), the Ja Rule years etc… The unfortunate truth is that we will never know.  I look at hip-hop right now and we need leadership BAD since Pac left there has been avoid rather a voice for hip-hop outside of music.  So on this day sip a little Hennessy dust off All Eyez on me and reflect on one of hip-hop’s greatest champions and warriors….