"Tupac Hyper-masculinity"

What I really liked about this article was that they make it clear that the media may have had the wrong impression on Tupac by his songs and masculinity. It amuses me how the article states that Tupac was teased as a child for being a pretty boy, because now the only image people have on Tupac is this thug gangster rapper. You can even go back to his earlier music, it was real happy and the sound of his music made people want to get up and dance. This article makes a lot of good points. I agree with the fact that Tupac changed because his style from the beginning wasn’t accepted but I also think that since he was so close to the drugs, sex and gang violence that it was easy for him to change his style and be more rough and thuggish.  Since that worked and people liked that he ran with it, which led to the reason why the media and people have that gangster image of him. That also ties into his rap lyrics. Tupac’s rap lyrics did not promote violence, he talked about violence and committing violent crimes but I never took any of them as him telling me to go out and commit crimes.  As far as the “Cool Pose” and the “Ladies Man” topics I find that to be so true I think everyman has that cool pose that’s what makes them distinct from one another by the way they walk talk and dress. Everyman wants to be loved by the ladies, well at least all the men I know. I don’t know why we do but we do, it must be I our blood. I mean that’s all my friends talk about is getting women but we cant blame our generation for this because that’s all we know that’s what we are being taught is right.  That’s what we see when we turn on the television.  Why do men always have to be masculine? Why couldn’t Tupac be “artsy”?