Tupac Shuker Blog

Do you have a favorite singer or rapper? Tupac Shuker, a rapper from the 1980s, is my favorite artist. He started his career  way before I was even born. I was in California in the summer of 1999 with my family visiting our cousins who live in North Los Angelas. At the time I was about 8 years old and my cousin, who is 9 years older than me, was around 17 or 18. This was my first time in California. One of the days during my visit there, my older cousin went out to purchase some things and asked if I wanted to go along and see the city. I was really excited to see the big city because it was different from Portland, so I tagged along. As we were driving, I remember he had the radio tuned on to the local hip pop station, and the song that had been playing was a song called "Dear Mama." That was my first time ever hearing it and I really liked it. I asked my cousin who the artist was and where I could find his cd, and he replied to me by telling me not to worry about it because he had one at home, and was going to give it to me. When we got home he gave me his CD player along with the CD and I listened to every single track on the cd that day; I had fallen in love with the music. Before I left California, he had bought me three cds, titled, "Me Against The World," "All Eyes On Me," and "Greatest Hits." I listened to each CD probably over a 100 times, I just loved his music. At the time, the house I lived in was near the local library so I went and put everything they had on Tupac on hold. Some of  the things I wanted to check out weren't age appropriate, and they wouldn't let me. However, I convinced my aunt to check them out for me. He had some movies, lots of books about his life, and many other great material. I enjoyed all of it very much.