On June 16, 2021, the late rap icon Tupac Shakur would have turned 50 had he survived a still unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas 25 years ago. Few knew that behind his “gangsta rap” façade, Tupac was an activist leader who worked to counter CIA drug trafficking through street gangs.
Dang, this is all new to me. I didn’t know he was an activist at all, and helped broker gang truces, I was just under the impression he held pro-communist ideals from Assata, but not too political.
He did say in a TV interview he was reading “That Russian guy, what was his name again? Oh yeah, Stalin”… but in context it sounded to me like he was messing with the interviewer.
Dang, this is all new to me. I didn’t know he was an activist at all, and helped broker gang truces, I was just under the impression he held pro-communist ideals from Assata, but not too political.
He did say in a TV interview he was reading “That Russian guy, what was his name again? Oh yeah, Stalin”… but in context it sounded to me like he was messing with the interviewer.