Tupac Shakur
Holler If You Hear Me
Michael Eric Dyson
Plexus
Paperback 224 pages (December 31, 2002)
Language: English
150X230mm
ISBN / Barcode: 9780859653220
Subject: Music
Michael Eric Dyson attempts to explain the deeper meaning between Tupac's life and work. The result is a dull and confusing book, which is hardly worth the time and certainly not worth the cost. Fistly, this is definately not a biography of Pac's life. Apart from his childhood, Dyson barely touches on the events of Tupac's life and death and he doesn't mention anything about Deathrow Records or Suge Knight. Instead he tries to express his own theories behind "Thug Life". This could have made absorbing reading as there is much one can read into Tupac's art. However, I found Dyson extremely pretentious, and the points he made were largely irrelevant and dull. He tried to prove his superior intellect by using long, complicated vocabulary, making each sentence imposible to understand. I went through whole chapters not knowing what the hell he was talking about. I certainly didn't get a better understanding of Tupac's mentality and beliefs, something as an ardent fan, I really wanted. I also found that at times he went over the top in his praise of Tupac. At one point he compared him to a messiah. I love Tupac, but I found some of this a little hard to swallow. Overall, I would say that this book is not worth reading as you are unlikely to gain anything from it. Personally, I am yet to find a really good Tupac biography, however I would recomend, to anybody who is interseted in Deathrow Records and west coast gangster rap in general, to read "Have Gun Will Travel", which I found really absorbing.
STATO: OS - Ordinabile
€ 20.00
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