Tupac Shakur's legacy of poetry, rap, passion, politics, and scatology continues with the recent release of Until the End of Time, a collection of raps originally recorded during his "Makaveli" period. However, I come now not to criticize Tupac Shakur but to praise him. Rap may be internationally popular, but it's still controversial, especially among those blacks trying to live out standards of respectability the larger world does not seem to comprehend they even know. After rapper Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) was shot to death by an unknown assailant, I mentioned him to a friend (an African-American male professional who works twelve hour days, financially supports his mother, tutors his nieces and nephews regularly, and doesn't use drugs or even drink alcohol), and before I could say I regretted Tupac Shakur's death my friend said, "If you live by the sword, you die by the sword." Let's face it: a lot of rap music is ignorant noise and in its enthusiastic affirmation of criminality, along with its sexism and homophobia, much of rap has set back the black male public image about two hundred years.
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