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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 02:58 pm: | |
Cynique:
I partially disagree with you about TuPac. He might have turned out a big star if he had lived and if he had decided tobuckle down and try to work at his art. Had he continued to fritter away his talent partying and getting in crap he would have burned out and been nothing.away his time and talent He was young and in the development stage as an actor but he had talent. I don't think he was the best rapper I ever heard
So far to be kind to him, I have settled on the idea that he was confused. I think what we were seeing was a young man dealing with the difficulties of "stardom"--at the same time he wanted badly to do soemthing he had never done before which is fit in.
When he's fitting in with the Hollywood and artistic types, he's got all these street types he likes to hang around with (I think he was also insecure in his manhood) asking him if he ain't "down" whatever that is. He gets with them and because he really doesn't know what he's doing with them he gets in messes.
It would seem his getting shot up was almost foreordained the way he was going--but I don't think he was as resigned to it as he was trying to act.
He was a guy like many others trying hard and failing to be all things to all people. |