At no point during the course of the movie do we see Tupac actually creating anything mostly we see him railing against the forces that were against him, hanging out with his boys and getting in confrontations with rivals. The movie reinforces a lot of the stereotypes Middle America has of rap culture – the misogyny, the violence, the drugs and alcohol and the conspicuous consumption.
We get little sense of Tupac the artist and instead we spend a whole lot of time seeing Tupac the party animal.
The movie is a touch over two hours long and sadly you feel every moment of it. For my money he did a pretty decent job and has nothing to be ashamed of. Shipp as ‘Pac is a dead ringer for the late rapper and displays at least some of the charisma that Tupac possessed some have groused that Shipp is not even close in that aspect but that’s like bitching about a match because it isn’t the sun. Tupac Shakur remains one of the most vital and influential artists of the 20 th century while there have been documentaries on his brief but meteoric life, there hasn’t been a biopic up until now. Santana, Cory Hardrict, Clifton Powell, Jamie Hector, DeRay Davis, Chris Clarke, Ronald Brooks, Jarrett Ellis, Erica Pinkett, Rayven Symone Ferrell, Josh Ventura, Chanel Young. (2017) Musical Biography ( CODEBLACK) Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira, Kat Graham, Hill Harper, Annie Ilonzeh, Lauren Cohan, Keith Robinson, Jamal Woolard, Dominic L. But you don’t have to travel far to witness his impact: Even two decades after his untimely demise, 2Pac’s influence can be heard in everyone from Lil Wayne to Kendrick Lamar to Future.Everyone wants to rap with ‘Pac. Originally branding himself MC New York, 2Pac incorporated influences from the East and West Coasts, not to mention the South, to create a universalist message and sound that explains why murals of him can be found all the way to Sub-Saharan Africa. And as Death Row Records’ strain of gangsta rap defined the middle years of the decade, he became the label’s avatar. But there was also the funkadelic player (“I Get Around”), the insular loner (“Me Against the World”), the savage warlord (“Hit ’Em Up”) and the sensitive poet (“Brenda’s Got a Baby”). For much of his career, he embodied this revolutionary, fight-the-power ethos on songs like “Trapped” and “Keep Ya Head Up”, befitting the Afrocentric, conscious-minded milieu of the early ’90s. He was born Lesane Parish Crooks in 1971, but his mother (a Black Panther leader) swiftly changed his name to Tupac Amaru Shakur in honour of the last Incan emperor to perish while resisting Spanish rule. Even if his legend has become a tall tale, his music remains an indelible testament to the multitudes he contained. In fact, his closest analogue may not be late rival The Notorious B.I.G., but rather dorm-room icons of the mythologized past: Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley and James Dean. 2Pac is arguably the most influential rapper of all-time.