How Does Tupac Affect Society

Music has been a new way to define communication, and has been reformed through eras of certain musicality. Music has sifted through time continually changing from medieval music, to renaissance, to a current era of multiple genres of music. Influential moments has been captured through music, and it quickly revolutionized music as a source to capture events, big or small, as a platform to inform society. This era of multiple genres spans the beginning of the 1990’s where hip hop surfaced and is still continuing to redefine the movement of music through many hip hop artists. This creates different purposes for music and how it affects society through the storytelling of music.

The new era started its movement when mainstream hip hop

had one of the biggest impacts towards hip hop in a sense that it redefined hip hop’s image. Tupac Shakur was a rapper who left a legacy throughout the whole genre of hip hop before he was shot and died. Up until now, his presence is still felt through this generation’s rappers because he was such an iconic figure on defining rap. When he released his first album, 2pacalypse, his single, “Brenda’s Got a Baby”, he talked about a non-fictional girl named Brenda which was based on a true story. Brenda was a twelve year old illiterate girl who has a baby. Tupac wanted Brenda to represent the stereotypical black female and women's struggles during the 90’s. “Now Brenda really never knew her moms” In the song, it already states she has a mom and a step mom, both who are unknown to her because they were never around. “And her dad was a junkie, puttin' death into his arms”. Tupac is painting a picture with just a few lines of his second verse already. 8 lines in, and he already depicts the image of the black community and their overlooked struggles just because they are poor. As the song continues, Brenda’s life gets worse. “Her boyfriend was her cousin, now let's watch the joy end” As she is pregnant, her family just uses her because the baby