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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac, Pac, and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time. The themes of most of Tupac's songs are the violence and hardship in inner cities, racism, social problems, and conflicts with other rappers during the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur began his career as a roadie, backup dancer, and MC for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground.

Both of his parents and several other family members were members of the Black Panthers, and Tupac made reference to the organization in the song "Changes". Shakur was involved in a West-coast East-coast rivalry after a major feud with East-coast rappers, producers and record-label members of staff.

On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where he died six days later.

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Panther Power

OED: Black Panther, n.

2. U.S. Freq. with capital initials. A member of any of several militant political organizations set up to fight for black rights; esp. a member of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Also attrib., designating the party. Now hist.

The Oakland group was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who modelled the organization on the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an activist group in Alabama that had adopted a black panther as their symbol.

Introduction:

A certain question is always pushed away when people talks about the American dream.

How can we define The American dream, is it racism or is it just the capitalistic way to handle things in the U.S.A.

In the lyric Panther Power by Tupac Shakur, tries Tupac to describe the American dream, what it means to him, what promises the government gave him and at the end, what he ended up with.

Analysis:

In the beginning of the lyric the atmosphere is very tense. In the first line Tupac starts saying “As real as it seems the American dream, ain´t nothing but another calculated scheme”.

He describes how the white people locked the black people up, how the white people stole their names, their future, their freedom, education, equality all that they were promised.

He tells that the white people made them very dangerous, the reason why, was obviously that they couldn’t get a job or an education.

He says that they really tried to be patient, but how can a man/woman be