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Article: Real niggaz do die
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- September 24, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Village Voice Sep 24, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Wild is the wind. Under Nina Simone's spell those four words are an ululation.
Tupac liked to use fire as a metaphor for his overwhelming spirit. (He would warn that to restrain him would be adding fuel to fire.) But I always knew he was wind. Wild and stormy. Not unlike the cold front that moves in on sweltering heat to form a twister or a hurricane. With the power to change and destroy. ("Hurricane Hortense heads back to sea leaving 10 dead Puerto Ricans") I always hoped he'd find his center before he turned in on himself, dissipating into a miserable drizzle.
Sideliners will suggest, on radio shows and Entertainment Weekly, he "had it coming" or "chose that lifestyle." On the streets ...