📗 Libro en inglés TUPAC SHAKUR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN ICON

A passionate, critically incisive biography of one of the most influential rappers of all time, Tupac Shakur, and how he came to dominate hip-hop in the 1990s.

In 1996 Tupac Shakur, a talented rapper and actor, was murdered in Las Vegas. No one has ever been arrested for the crime. Tayannah Lee McQuillar and Professor Fred L. Johnson examine Tupac’s story, from his family roots in Lumberton, North Carolina, and Virginia through his meteoric rise to fame and tragic fall.

Shakur was a hero to the poor, the imprisoned, the hopeless, and the voiceless. But there was another side of him, revealed as his life spun out of control, as the whispered warnings from friends went unheeded and the denunciations of critics grew louder. His death ended an era when American rappers used their art to speak the truth to corporate, government, and judicial power.