2pac- Keep your head up

This past Sunday I was at my friend’s house, and we were flipping through the channels looking for something to watch. He stopped on a movie about 2pac Shakur. It was him talking about his life from child to adult. I have always liked his music, but after watching this I had a much better understanding of who he actually was as a person. I just thought I’d give some interesting facts.  I learned that he grew up in a rough neighborhood, and when he started getting famous he would do things to try and help make places like where he grew up better. He would do concerts to raise money. When he was a teenager, he got accepted to a performing arts school where he learned drama and dance. Later on he joined the Oakland, California-based hip-hop group Digital Underground, and he was a backup dancer for them in the song “The Humpty Dance.” 2Pac was shot five times during a mugging in the lobby of a recording studio. He accused Biggie and some other people of setting him up. This later caused the big war against east coast and west coast rappers. He also did a lot of acting aside from rapping. My favorite is Juice. He is a really good actor in my opinion. 2pac was shot on his way to a boxing match, and later died in the hospital. Even though he isn’t alive, his music is still alive and strong. He’s a perfect example that it’s not impossible to come from nothing and become something great.

Imperative Reaction - Side effect

So, this blog has a story behind it. On this year’s Halloween, I had nothing to do. Two of my girlfriends were going to club shampoo and invited me to go. The club was having an event for all ages called Dracula’s Ball. All I knew was there was going to be some live bands. So I went with one of my friends, and was going to meet up with the other later. When me and my friend walked in the club we felt so out of place. Probably like 98% of the people in the club were dressed in black and nothing but rock was playing, but there was a room that was playing 80’s music, so we went there. Later, my other friend arrived. A new band came on and she wanted to stay and watch them. I didn’t think I would like it at all, but then they started their first song and with only a few seconds in my jaw was on the ground. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and seeing. I’ve never heard music like this before, but I really liked it. It’s so different from anything I listen to, and I don’t really know what you would call it. It’s like a mix of techno, rock, and that crazy scream music. I never liked when people screamed in rock music, but I really liked this. And they were amazing performers. They were full of energy the whole time, and the singer interacted with the audience very well. The guitar player was all over the stage swinging his long hair everywhere and just having a great time. The drummer was awesome, and they keyboard player was so into the music, and he sang as well (or screamed I should say). I just loved everything about them and I couldn’t take my eyes away for even a second. I’m really glad I went and got to experience this.

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