Walking The Tight Rope
Beginning of paper
The recent murder of Tupac Shakur is a great tragedy and a waste of
a young, promising life. Shakur at only 25 years-old had come to
represent a volatile mixture of youthful energy, exuberance, arrogance,
self-confidence and, at times, foolishness. He represented possibility
on the one hand and sel ....
Middle of paper
.... Do we dare peer into it?
Rap music is no longer simply the local, communal form of
entertainment that it was at its inception in the early 1970s. And even
the thriving commercial entity it became by the late 1980sÑas gangsta
rap moved from the margins of hip-hop culture to the centerÑhas
already been transformed. Despite the various changes in the rap
industry over the last six years, there has been at least one constant:
rap artists who have enjoyed international fame and pl ....
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