Tupac Amaru Shakur
We do realize that there is no way to contrast inventions of Galileo Galilei, the policy of Hitler who almost managed to capture the world authority with contribution Tupac Shakur made to music, but one should remember that society is not only science and policy but also youth, and youth is rather important part of society sets the mood for next generation. From this point of view the contribution Tupac Amaru Shakur made to formation of youth minds is worth attention. Twelve years had past since the day he died but he is still considered to be the god of the rap music, which was the music of great number of youth. Moreover, rap wasn't just a music genre soon he turned into the broad subculture of youth.
Tupac Amaru Shakur was born June 16th in 1971 and was named after Inca's chief. The name of legendary rapper is translated as shining serpent. This name was given him by his mother, who was rather unordinary woman. The whole life long Afeni Shakur belonged to the secret community of black panthers that fought for the right of Afro-American people. Afeni was greatly dedicated to that community and so raced her son as the greatest follower of that movement. From the very childhood Tupac Amaru Shakur had been listening stories about tough life of the Afro-American people, about their sufferings and was called up to fight for the rights of his people. Actually, it was the mother of Tupac Shakur who made him so strong by the spirit and able to make great number of people follow him.
The whole life of Tupac Amaru consisted only of music, he never had wife, never had the friends he may share everything with, all he had was the rap music, that was for him a mean to express his feelings and ideas and to communicate to people. At first Tupac was just another rapper who was trying to say something to his brother, but soon he became the living legend of the whole style and age. Shakur died at the age of 25 and till that time he was already known all around the world, and his death was mourning by a great number of people. Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas but there are still those who believe that Tupac is alive, as the second stage name of Shakur was Machiavelli the name of Italian captain who pretended his death in order to defeat the enemy.
Most of the fans of Tupac Shakur believe that Tupac did just the same thing, that he pretended his death to came back and strike the world with his songs one more. There are a lot of facts that proves that theory for example one may find a lot of words of farewell in the Tupac's last songs, moreover, there is one of the Tupac's releases that contains thirteenth hidden track. The length of that track is strictly thirteen seconds, and the words of that track sound like this "Expect me niggaz like you expect for Jesus to come, expect me niggaz and I will come".