[kaknelson]

This is for all you Pac fans!!! The limited amount on UM...>

Not only was he an music artist, actor & script writer, he was also an admired poet! Ya'll should really go buy the book: "The Rose That Grew From Concrete", by Tupac Shakur published by Pocket Books. But i'll hook you up.

There's a art center, along with a university class of dedicated to 2pac in which you can study his works.

Shakur Foundation
Tupac Class



EDIT: Poems were moved below on a link. Due to copywrite hassels.

This post has been edited by Kaknelson: 24 May 2006 - 03:36 AM

[Xoisk el Soñador]

"Liberty Needs Glasses" is my favorite, I have a CD of people reading his poetry.

This post has been edited by xoisk: 21 May 2006 - 05:35 AM

[kaknelson]

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"Liberty Needs Glasses" is my favorite, I have a CD of people reading his poetry.

Yes, i did this post for those who'd really appreciate it. And for those who think Pac is garbage.

[Purplos]

I never had an opinion about Tupac (2pac?) before. I never listened to his music or cared much about him at all. But after seeing people defend him as some great philosopher so often, I thought I'd read his poetry here.

This is what I found...

His topics are sophmoric, his rhythm & meter clumsy at best, and his spelling atrocious.

Now I know. Thanks.

[Magikman]

Kaknelson,

You cannot post his poems to this forum without the author's express permission (or his legal inheritors) there are issues with copyrights. Post a link to his poems, that is permitted. The website link for the cd has been removed since its to a store, you should know better by now. Lastly, the rude remark in your original post wasn't appreciated, you're going to have to expect that if you start a thread on this forum you're going to have to deal with contrary opinions. If you can't handle that decently, then don't start threads.

MM

[Xoisk el Soñador]

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I never had an opinion about Tupac (2pac?) before. I never listened to his music or cared much about him at all. But after seeing people defend him as some great philosopher so often, I thought I'd read his poetry here.

This is what I found...

His topics are sophmoric, his rhythm & meter clumsy at best, and his spelling atrocious.

Now I know. Thanks.

I thought he had astounding rhythm, but his spelling was atrocious at the best.

[Purplos]

perhaps it works better with a back-beat or something. I tried to get some rhythm out of it while reading but he seemed to keep throwing in words that just did not fit.

[kaknelson]

WOW. ! !!!

There are a lot of ungrateful opinions and posts on this thread. may aswell remove it!!!!

So many ppl on UM who do not appreciate Tupac, nor care to relate to him, this ive noticed about UM. I didn't put the link because i copied it out of a book!... and i the book i stated. This is garbage, im really disappointed with UM, i put time in this thread.

The last time i share my stuff.

This post has been edited by Kaknelson: 23 May 2006 - 06:33 AM

[Purplos]

Wow. One person agrees with you, one person (me) does not, in regard to Tupac's poetry skill. This is cause for you to give up? Please realize that everyone has different tastes and we won't all agree with you. I didn't post my negative opinion to be nasty, I was just sharing my views.

Sorry if you can't accept differing opinions.

Ps. And the Mod was not attacking you - merely stating that it is against the LAW to copy people's poetry out of books.

[Xoisk el Soñador]

Kaknelson chill...

[kaknelson]

LOL!

Im tryin to chill.......................... i adore poetry ok.

And, its just it took me forever to write it out! I was using numbers like 2wice, and 2night to save time, and all ya'll regarded the spelling as bad! lol.

All of Pac's poems were political, or spiritual in some way. This i love.

It'd be easier for ya'll to understand if they didn't remove em!

Oh well... you can find his work on the internet if interested.

http://www.tupac4u.de/deutsch/poem.htm

Pac knew he was gonna go at the rate he was attacking the government, speaking of unfairness in the hoods, creating a cd and movement labeled "Killuminati"... "Kill" illuminati. He knew he was gonna die, and wanted to die for a principal... he was a genius in my eyes.

This post has been edited by Kaknelson: 24 May 2006 - 03:36 AM

[Xoisk el Soñador]

He was different from the commercialisms of normal hip-hop artists.

[kaknelson]

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He was different from the commercialisms of normal hip-hop artists.

Very much so.

Atleast you notice the difference between the original conscious hiphop, and the mainstream mockary. Realisitcally it is all the same struggle, being that hiphop/rap comes from Jamaican Reggae. The voice of the streets....

Hiphop needs another real political emcee.

This post has been edited by Kaknelson: 24 May 2006 - 02:46 AM

[Magikman]

Guess who would be the one to suffer because of your iindiscretion? Certainly not you, but Saruman would. Depending on how anal the legal team protecting Tupac's artistic rights are, he could be made to pay a hefty fine or even have the forum shut down. Wouldn't that make you happy?

Again, if you want people to experience his 'poetry', post links to sites that display examples. You mention a poem titled "Liberty Needs Glasses", guess what, Google comes up with over 500 hits for that particular poem..........here's one site;

HERE

Sure is alot quicker than typing the whole thing out by hand, and you don't subject this site to any copyright hassels.

[kaknelson]

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Guess who would be the one to suffer because of your iindiscretion? Certainly not you, but Saruman would. Depending on how anal the legal team protecting Tupac's artistic rights are, he could be made to pay a hefty fine or even have the forum shut down. Wouldn't that make you happy?

Again, if you want people to experience his 'poetry', post links to sites that display examples. You mention a poem titled "Liberty Needs Glasses", guess what, Google comes up with over 500 hits for that particular poem..........here's one site;

HERE

Sure is alot quicker than typing the whole thing out by hand, and you don't subject this site to any copyright hassels.

Saruman is my boy... this was not my intention.

My intention was to enlighten those on Tupac Shakur, and is poetry. Tis my bad on the post, and the copyright laws. I adore Tupac's work , sorry for my outburst but it was how i felt.

My intentions were to enlighten, i love all as a poem.