Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Research Entry 1. Hip Hop/Rap DVD's Review (Tupac Shakur Documentarys)

I have looked at three Documentary style DVD’S on one of the most influence people in Hip Hops/Rap history Tupac Shakur. These DVD’S talk about his life career and his death. Tupac was one of the biggest Hip Hop/Rap artists Ever and still is today; even after his death His album’s still sell millions of copies all over the world. Many fans loved Tupac. Tupac will forever be in Hip Hop/ Rap history. For many things from his albums to his life outside music.



Tupac Assassination:

Tupac Assassination Documentary is the latest DVD to come out about Tupac Shakur. In this DVD they talk about the way he died. There is a whole conspiracy about how Tupac died that night in 1996 in Las Vegas. This DVD Tupac Assassination tells the story of what happened that night Tupac Died. With interviews from former bodyguards of Tupac’s. Also high profile detectives from different fields of the police force (Past and present officers) help explain what happened that night in 1996. As the title of the DVD states this looks into that the death of Tupac as not just a random act of violence but as an Assassination of him. It explains all the factors of the events leading up to the death of Tupac Including: (Tupac wanting to start his own record label, Tupac reluctant to go to the boxing fight in Las Vegas the night he died, Tupac body guards told to not carry guns that night of the fight, Bad communication between body guards and other personal aka body guards with no radios) It also then talks about they way the shooting went down (The way Tupac’s car was situated when shot aka in the middle of other cars so Tupac had no where to go, The way the crime scene was covered) This DVD covers every point of Tupacs’s Death in great detail. Tupacs music still sells very well to this date. The death of Tupac is still today one of Hip Hops biggest loses



Tupac Resurrection:

Tupac Resurrection Documentary is the story of Tupacs Life in his own words. Tupac was a poet, an artist and writer. This DVD talks about Tupac from his begins. His mother as a black panther. He talks about how he first rebelled from his mother and that if he hated anything it would be poverty. He talks about when he was young how he was quite and read a lot and wrote and how he watched TV a lot and emulated the actors and maybe if he could be and actor and act like those character he could have some of that joy that the Actors had. He talks about his first acting job at the Apollo Theatre and how he loved his classes at the Baltimore School for the arts. He talks about things in life like the state of living, poverty, shelter, and food. He thinks poor people should live like rich people and rich people should live like poor people and should swap every week. He also talks about how there should be classes In School on drugs, Sex education, and why people are hungry. He talks about how he dropped out of school and how the drug deals looked out for him and told him to go for his dreams and Also how he got his start in digital underground and how they were some of his best times in his life and then how he got picked up by inter scope records and how his songs deal with pain from his childhood and his hero’s and how he wanted to change his community through his songs he also talks about the trouble he got into when he become a recording artist and how he was in and out of court and how he got looked up to by everybody and how he means thug life as the underdog. He also talks about the shooting in a recording studio when he was shot 5 times this leads into the war between death row records (Tupac’s record label) and bad boy records (Biggie Small Record Label) Biggie Smalls was once a great friend of Tupac’s. He talks about his time in prison how he couldn’t write songs and he talks about his move to death row. This DVD tells the story of Tupac from a young age till his death



Tupac Shakur: Tupac VS

Tupac VS is Another Documentary on Tupac Shakur’s life it talks about the meaning of Tupac’s life. Tupac was one of the biggest hip hop/rap artists of all time and still is today. Tupac never though that he would be shoot by a black person as he believed that he was a representative for the black community and that he didn’t have to fear his own kind. He truly believed this before he was gunned down in Las Vegas. Tupac talks about Thug Life once again. As he did in (Tupac Resurrection). He talks about it being not an image but that it is just a way of life. And he sees it as a stage that we all go through and that he didn’t create Thug Life He diagnosed it. It talks about Tupac as an icon and having a very strong bond with his mother who was a black panther as stated in (Tupac Resurrection review) it talks about how Tupac had a poor childhood how he dropped out of school and how Tupac liked to read a lot and how as he read and it talks a lot a bout the politics of when Tupac Was growing up. It also talks about how Tupac talked about Death a lot in his Songs and Raped about how he would die himself. It also talks about Tupac being in prison and how he red a lot in prison wrote poetry and even a movie script as a way to pass the time in prison as also stated in (Tupac Resurrection) also along with his music and acting. Tupac had big ambition to do more like (Write movie, direct movies, bringing out new artists) it talks again about the east coast west coast war. It talks about how Tupac’s lyrics where looked upon as a bad influence and how it was classed as gangster rap. And how the image of thug life comes back to be blamed on Tupac. Also he talks about his hero’s as he did in (Tupac Resurrection) This DVD once again talks about his life but more in the way of what surrounded him as he lived his life.

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