Tupac Equality

Equality
“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning”- Huey Newton. Tupac used his music to change lives and help show other people what he has lived through and other people live through as well. In Tupac’s popular song “Changes “he writes about the hardships that African Americans face every day and want everyone needs to do to survive in the world. Tupac writes about people in the ghetto who are doing whatever it takes to survive. He writes about guns, drugs, police brutality, poverty and the ghetto. He uses the metaphor “My stomach hurts so I’m looking for a purse to snatch” ( Tupac) he has resorted to stealing because he is too poor to pay for food. Poverty is a struggle for most lower-class people and he shows the “Survival of the Fittest “mentality that goes on inside the ghetto. He also includes that the ghetto is like a warzone and must live through the lifestyle of constantly getting shot at by other gangs. He also refers to police fighting the ghetto and drugs instead of

Tupac uses an analogy to Huey Newton who is a black panther leader. Huey said that the black community needs to fight back and then is murdered later after. “It’s time to fight back”, that’s what Huey said, two shots in the dark, now Hueys dead” African Americans try to fight back they get shut down by racist people who don’t want to see them succeed or try to integrate into today’s society. Tupac says early in his song that he doesn’t see any changes which could be refer to the civil right movement. He shows are still being mistreated during the 50’s and 60’s and was supposed to “change” the life of African Americans has yet to help them. He also says “we gotta make changes” (Tupac) which could refer to the unity of African Americans to try to make a change. Another verse he says is that “trying to stay in the dope game” saying some people are not willing to give up drug dealing to