Tupac's Influence On Pop Culture

Hip-hop is an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African American residents of the inner city. Before hip-hop was given its name it was originally called disco rap. It was called disco rap because it was born from the ashes of disco and the development of funk. Hip-hop began in New York City and its journey to becoming mainstream music was slow in the beginning but became popular once it grew.

DJ-ing is remixing a song playing a certain lyric in the song while one song plays on the second record. DJ’s went from being on the streets or in parties into studios producing music and performing live. DJ-ing was about manipulation of records and adding different sounds, rhythms and accents. DJ’s had become better since the 70s and sampling music had become the face of hip-hop. Hip-hop had become a

“The whirlwind life that was Tupac Shakur shook the industry, and to this day, motivates artist to be more poetic, and all the more real.” (“How Tupac Shakur Changed...”) Tupac’s mother being a huge supporter of The Black Panther movement defined a lot of what he spoke about as an artist on records. When Tupac spoke he gave the world a picture of the streets during that time like a hip-hop artist would. Being a hip-hop artist made him a target of the police just because he was painting a picture on record which offended the authorities as a whole. Tupac’s music was genuinely from the heart when he talked about what colored people had went through. He influenced current artist to speak about everything and to be confident no matter what consequences came behind it. Hip-hop was to put an impact on the minds who took the time to listen to the lyrics. Tupac has had a huge effect on so many people and he is considered the foundation of the hip-hop genre to this day. Hip-hop had been declared dead after Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. had died (Cummings