Mentions (3)
"Tupac also wasn't just some gay theater kids who put on a thug persona. He was a straight g who was raised by drug dealers in the ghetto while being broke and having a crack addicted mom involved with the black panthers. While being robbed in quad studios the stick up dudes pulled out a gun and told"
"Curtis referred to 2pac as bitter near the end of his life and while I think that's a fair characterization I also see it as more of a melancholy. There's one song of his that captures this perfectly and it consistently makes me cry because the *layers* of sadness that seem to only grow over time"
"I appreciated the mention of 2pac in the girls' interview with Adam Curtis (and in his film!) as they touched something that always fascinated me about the arc of his life. 2pac's ambitions were superficially fulfilled yet fundamentally frustrated"