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Article: East Coast/West Coast Madness
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- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- April 26, 1997
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Michigan Citizen
04-26-1997
East Coast/West Coast Madness
For Black youth, the dizzying aura of death pervades their expanding consciousness as two of their heroes, the lean, angular Tupac Shakur, and the broad, obese notorious B.I.G. (nee Chris Wallace), both targets of high - powered drive by shootings, are lowered into the moist, cool earth. For millions who bounced to their beats, and who nodded to their raps, the lesson slams home that even millions of dollars can't buy one minute of more life, and for those in their teens or early twenties, life, which once seemed everlasting, becomes chillingly precarious.
Media reports that Tupac and Biggie were slumped by Black men causes many to ...