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    No, he was a communist sympathizer maybe, he knew about communism through the Black Panthers but that’s about it. His mother was sort of in the panthers, as was his dad. But his mother quit the panthers, and became addicted to crack. He was not raised in some kind of revolutionary home of black communist leaders. Tupac did join the communist party, but likely because his girlfriend at the time made him. None of these things were well known to his fans, they largely came out years later after his death. His music was not filled with communist rhetoric or anything like that. He was a devout Christian, and constantly made references to Jesus and the bible. He’s literally crucified in one of his videos. He was also a big fan of conspiracy theories often bordering on antisemetism, one of his albums was called Killuminati as he was a big believer that the illuminati was real, and an evil group of white people who control the world. Which is why after his death, many people began speculating that he was assassinated, or maybe still alive, or Idk he’s a zombie vampire now or something. Tupac was actually not all that famous before he died. He was only 25 and claimed he had only made $200k total in his entire music career, to give you an idea of how times have changed a handwritten letter of Tupacs recently sold at auction for $200k. Tupac’s death while somewhat mysterious was not all that surprising as he had been shot multiple times before, and was no stranger to shooting people himself, alot of people don’t know Tupac once shot 2 cops and was acquitted on self defense. He was also extremely paranoid. When 2pac was first shot he didn’t blame, the FBI, or the illuminati or the KKK he blamed his good friend at the time Biggie Smalls, with no evidence or even much of a motive, Biggie was deeply hurt by the accusation, but figured there was no way to convince him otherwise. So other than his mothers very tenuous connections to the black panthers, and possible falling in love with a young communist activist as a teen he was not a communist, I doubt he would’ve even known the definition

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        can you find anyother info, other than this card and that he briefly dated a communist at the age of 17? its part of the “tupac is alive” conspiracy theory that he was some kind of secret communist hellbent on taking over the government. its not true, alot of people in the panthers didn’t even know the black panthers were affiliated with communists.

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            again he did not grow up in some revolutionary communist household, tupacs mother left the black panthers and struggled with crack addiction. Tupacs father was in the panthers, but tupac never knew him and his mother lied to him for most of his life about who his father was, and then even lied on his death certificate about it. Tupac had a very strained relationship with his mother to say the least. even this mystery girl he dated wasn’t some confirmed communist revolutionary, she was the daughter of the chairman of the communist party of Maryland. It’s just the most tenuous connections imaginable, I could probably connect Tupac to al queda easier. I should also say, I am a huge tupac fan and know for a fact none of his music references communism. Kanye West has praised communism more in his music, fucking loves Cuba for some reason

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                I know of plenty communist artists who never reference communism

                name one

                He never expressed bougie capitalist views or pro-western war machine views either you see?

                neither did osama? whats your point?

                I mean I dont get how you know that all his family where in the panthers

                even the black panthers were not an outright communist organization, they started to fight against racism, and police brutality, not too different than the Crips, again many members were not even aware they were affiliated with communists at all… You must be trotskyist because you keep calling the people of the Bronx peasants