And as for you guys citing Tupac as being anti-misogynistic, the dude was charged with rape, cant remember the details of the incident.
... and found not guilty.
Incorrect. He was acquitted of most of the serious charges and found guilty of a petty sexual assault charge for allegedly slapping a woman's butt. The verdict and especially the sentence says a whole lot more about the racist American criminal injustice system than it says about Pac. The song linked was recorded months before the alleged incident...if you can listen to that song and honestly condemn the man who sung it for rape on the flimsiest of evidence (shit you yourself said "can't remember details of the incident") then it's a statement about your prejudice and ignorance.
People should not rely on uneducated entertainers for social commentary,
Rely? Who here "relies" on it? But that someone didn't have a university education and is an entertainer is a reason to dismiss their social commentary out of hand?
Also this uneducated entertainer who is unqualified in your learned opinion to speak on socio-political issues got a scholarship to the Baltimore School for the Arts and his mother, father, stepfather and godfather were all members of the Black Panther Party and Pac himself was formerly a member of the Young Communist League. Yeah what the fuck does he know about politics? He was Black and didn't even have a university degree!
Instead let's listen to some random dude on the internet, he knows much better.
In that song that Ishina posted, Tupac says "they got money for wars but can't feed the poor", which is hyperbole in the extreme! Noone in the US goes hungry because they have food stamps for the poor.
Yeah cause musicians/artists/entertainers NEVER use hyperbole. A song is totally the appropriate place for dispassionate intellectual social commentary, and if it's not 100% accurate then the message is worthless.
The message is correct.
The fact is that the US has by far one of the best social welfare programs in the world, not on the same level as the UK, but better than 90% of the world.
Okay either you're trolling or you're woefully ignorant. When compared with other countries with similar GDP our social welfare programs are horribly inadequate. Hell some "Third World" nations have better social programs than we do. AND WE'RE THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE MUTHAFUCKIN WORLD!
When I see "ghettos" in Europe I fuckin laugh at what they consider poverty. In many ways we have the social/economic conditions of a Third World country, and yes our poor people are better off than their poor people-- wonderful, the richest country in the world has poor people who aren't as bad off as those in the same Third World countries our ruling class regularly exploits-- what a great accomplishment!
Please, please tell me you're trolling (though a true troll would never tell I suppose).
Topic: Hip Hop and Rape Culture