Misunderstood.

It is so easy for people to judge others when they don’t have any knowledge of the lifestyle of the person being judged. Looking in on Tupac’s life and hearing his lyrics, yeah one may think that he is vulgar and out of control and that he promotes gain violence, but it’s truly a way of expression. Many people express emotions in different ways. The way that Tupac chose to express his, was through his lyrics. The life Tupac lived wasn’t something that many people who critiqued him seen every day, but many African American young adults lived the same exact lifestyle as him. With the help of his lyrics many people used his words to understand how to face the struggle. Yes, there is a way to be helpful without the cuss words and violence, but he was making the situations real life. He used his lyrics to reenact certain situations to them in song and passing them on to other young men and women who may have been experiencing the same thing. It may have been very easy for religious people and critics to shun Tupac for his way of doing things, but I believe that it’s just because they never had to go through half of the things he went through growing up. Being raised by a mom who works and still having to receive welfare and the fact that she was a crack fiend added to the madness, having no father, and the only men you could look up to in your life were the thugs who took you in and helped raised you. The lifestyle that he lived was all that he knew and the only thing left for him to do was to make it through the best way he could. There were certain ways that you had to handle situations to be able to make it in the cruel world he lived in. Many people even today use Tupac’s lyrics as motivation, as an inspiration to note that even if a man in his circumstances can see the good and try to do better than they should be able to as well. People depict things differently and everyone is entitled to have their own, but I do believe that is important for people not to be so judgmental about situations they may or may not understand completely.