That article is something I wouldn't have found funny at 17. In fact, at 17, I probably would have been a little insulted by it. But you know what? I'm still insulted by it, even though I'm not as devout a 'Pac fan as I once was. Do you know why?
It's because I don't like that kind of comedy. I'm sure it's funny to some people, like, um, racists and those who hate Tupac for no reason, but is it ever funny to call a dead person "worm food?" That's a mother without a son, my friend. That is never funny.
And sarcastically saying that Tupac "invented philosophy" is misguided, even as a joke, because for a lot of the folks on this board, Tupac did get them thinking. And what's bad about that? Absolutely nothing, that's what.
I've always been known as "the Tupac guy" to peripherals and other folks who didn't really know me. On a few occasions, I've been lampooned publicly by people who wanted to expose my Tupac obsession as illegitimate because I'm white. Well fuck those guys. I was always able to dispatch them quite loudly because I actually believed in what I was doing and feeling, much like the young Mr. Shakur. And what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong with it: nothing.
But Pactember is still pretty funny, I must admit.
