Hypothetical Question, If Tupac was still alive, How much power would he have as a political leader?, page 1
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reply posted on 15-10-2009 @ 09:39 AM by lucentenigma
reply to post by Doomsday 2029



Don't get me wrong I like Tupac I think he is a great musician. Got an iPod full of his music.

When he was alive he barely got any of the money from his record sales. Shug Knight took advantage of him and ran the show.

Shug would give him keys to new cars (Tupac never owned any he just got to use them) and throw him 20k in cash to pacify him and let him live in a big house that Shug owned.

I don't know how great of a leader someone like that would make.

Regardless, if he were to just pop up alive and well he probably would gain a pretty huge following.


reply posted on 15-10-2009 @ 09:53 AM by Doomsday 2029
reply to post by lucentenigma




The whole Suge Knight thing you just explained could of been fake... Like I said, Tupac had some good connections, and maybe Suge was his right hand man going along with the faked death... After all, if Suge didn't give Tupac the millions he deserved in front of the publics eyes... maybe they found a way to keep those earnings for after he faked his death...


Either way... if Tupac did fake his death... Suge would have to know about it, because he was in the car with him. (and Suge was from Las Vegas and he had several connections there)



reply posted on 15-10-2009 @ 11:05 AM by jd140
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Seeing corruption and being part of the corruption is what makes him a thug that the world is better off without.

crime.about.com...


reply posted on 15-10-2009 @ 11:44 AM by Dramey
i am a fan of rap

i grew up with it

i grew up in the culture

im a fan of pac, im familiar with his music and his career

to be fully honest about it

if pac and big were alive, they would very possibly be nowhere near the status they are now

they wouldnt have half of the political power they could possess if "they came back from the dead"


much of the power and respect given to those 2 artists were directly related to their untimely deaths

1st of all, as talented as they were, it wouldve been very hard to stay creative fresh and keep the same caliber quality they had when they were alive and working

even if they were able to, they gained an unfathomable amount of recognition through their deaths, so without dying i dont think they would be as mainstream as they are today and since their deaths


i also dont think rap would be the mainstream garbage it is today for the most part

even though they may be classified as "gangster rap" to an extent, they are the ones who really helped bring rap to the mainstream world, they are the ones who made rap a mainstream entity

i truly believe if they were still alive things would obviously be very different

and i guarantee there wouldnt be rappers out there like lil boosie or whatever the hell his name is and the rest of them like him

nobody would be doing any supermaning or any of the other horrible rap atrocities that have been developed recently


if they were alive i think rap would be much better but still not as mainstream as it has become with their deaths

i can almost guarantee as good as jay z is, he wouldnt be where he is today if pac and big were here, hed still be bigs memphis bleek


reply posted on 15-10-2009 @ 11:50 AM by Dramey
Originally posted by jd140
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post by lucentenigma



Seeing corruption and being part of the corruption is what makes him a thug that the world is better off without.

crime.about.com...



so we'd basically be better off if we got rid of all the worlds politicians and executives is basically what youre trying to say here

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