This album manages to be popular and tell a significant story. There are very nice melodies even for the “untrained” ears. ‘ Me Against The World‘, as the experts say, is a solid album regarding production and flow. It was this realization that made him a martyr. But he understood how broken the world is and how misled the people were. As he said many times in interviews, he didn’t consider himself the greatest rapper, he didn’t claim that he is god. He rather chose to bear the world’s sins on his shoulders. However, I think we must be careful there because it was not that Tupac suddenly considered himself the best of all and wanted to talk about himself. While in the first two albums he deals with the black community of the ghettos with a generally social commentary, delivering the lyrics with passion and anger, in the next albums things get more personal. And this shows in his five albums in which he unfolds his short life. Because this point of view is only the beginning for Tupac. If someone interprets his life and actions through the spectrum “born-and-raised-in-the-ghetto young black male”, allow me to say they are wrong. Tupac Shakur looked the world in the eyes and saw its true colors. Tupac Shakur was beyond race, social status and religion. Tupac Shakur was a misunderstood human being who found himself trapped in a world of social prejudice, racism and inner conflict. Since there is enough information about this part of his life, I will try to narrow my view on his persona to its core. His parents were members of the Black Panthers, but when Tupac was born his mother was single, poor and an addict struggling to raise him and his sister. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in Harlem (NY) on June 16th 1971. I am not an expert in rap music, neither a fan, although there are quite a few songs that I liked through the years. Because no matter how many years have passed and will pass, a few words for Tupac must be said even if they add to the pile of so many articles, books, documentaries and movies. Both because I don’t want to wait and it is pointless to do so. I didn’t manage to do that then, but I didn’t want to wait for his 25th or 30th death anniversary. The first moment I had the urge to write about 2Pac was in 2016, twenty years since his death. “My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.
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