I confess that I have very little time or patience or, quite frankly, emotional bandwidth for the Posthumous Tupac Industrial Complex, the 10,000 thrown-together albums, the hologram (ugh), the jukebox musical, the movies, the books (the books generally are really good), the NFTs, I assume.

I don’t mean to break the suspense but I will not be definitively solving Tupac’s murder at this time, nor for that matter will I discuss his death in grueling detail, or in any sort of detail whatsoever. episode, Tupac didn’t come up much at all. to come up much at all just as, when we did a Notorious B.I.G. Other than right this second, I don’t expect the Notorious B.I.G.

We’re gonna get through this together.īecause Tupac is a lot, inevitably, we might ignore or briskly sidestep a lot. One of the most famous, the most revered, the most reviled, the most extravagantly mourned rappers, entertainers, humans in recent American history. Tupac is arguably the most photographed barn in America, while we’re getting all literary. The towering monolith of excellent preexisting Tupac scholarship. The weight of it-the emotional, the biographical weight of it. I have dreaded the Tupac episode of this show for a year. In Episode 58, we’re breaking down Tupac Shakur and his megahit “California Love.” Follow and listen for free exclusively on Spotify. But what does it say about the era-and why does it still matter? On our show 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s, Ringer music writer and ’90s survivor Rob Harvilla embarks on a quest to answer those questions, one track at a time. “Wonderwall.” The music of the ’90s was as exciting as it was diverse.

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