Previously Unreleased Poems by a Teenaged Tupac Shakur
November 4, 2014 8:54 AM   Subscribe

The poems, written over a three year period starting when the rapper was 17, offer a glimpse of Tupac before many people knew him. With the hope of beginning to understand the significance of Tupac Shakur on today's modern world, we asked writer Jeff Weiss, who co-wrote 2Pac vs. Biggie: An Illustrated History of Rap's Greatest Battle, to pen an essay on why we care.
posted by danabanana (5 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
They're better than Jim Morrison's poems, though admittedly that's a low bar.
posted by El Sabor Asiatico at 9:27 AM on November 4, 2014 [1 favorite]


Christ, I can't even bear to look at my own teenage writing, now I have to worry someone will post it on the internet after I'm dead? Good thing I'm not famous then.
posted by fungible at 9:34 AM on November 4, 2014


Perhaps we need to prep a new category for any MeFite's who come late to fame, so to speak, to go with the 'MeFi's own' label. 'Late Mefite' could take in any deceased member, I suppose late, great Mefite might do it but I am sure people can come up with better.
posted by biffa at 9:42 AM on November 4, 2014


Invisible Green Time-Lapse Peloton:
Robo-Tupac (based on years of algorithm refinement) rapping edited poems
Imagine if hologram Tupac became the U.S.'s answer to Hatsune Miku. And if they did a concert together. And then got married. And then had hologram AI babies.
posted by charred husk at 10:23 AM on November 4, 2014 [2 favorites]


And somewhere, on a privately owned Caribbean island, Tupac is saying to Elvis "See, old man? I told you those 'unreleased teenaged poems' would generate buzz," as they both sip umbrella drinks and watch the waves roll in.
posted by radwolf76 at 10:56 AM on November 4, 2014


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