Tupac Shakur’s estate decided to enter the political battlefield on Wednesday (October 28) by encouraging followers to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Using his official social media accounts, the late Hip Hop legend’s team posted lyrics from his 1995 song “Me Against the World” in attempt to convince fans to make their voices heard on November 3.
“Always do your best, don’t let this pressure make you panic,” the post reads. “And when you get stranded/And things don’t go the way you planned it/Dreamin’ of riches, in a position of makin’ a difference/Politicians are hypocrites, they don’t wanna listen.”
The Shakur estate simply wrote “VOTE” as the caption without recommending a specific candidate.
2Pac’s accounts have considerable influence between their 19 million followers on Facebook, 5.5 million followers on Instagram and almost 600,000 followers on Twitter. While some fans were pleased with the post, others were against using ‘Pac’s name for anything to do with politics.
“Stop doing it, Pac isn’t about politics,” one fan wrote, while another said, “Pretty sure Pac would reject both major political parties.”
In September, ‘Pac’s name made headlines after Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said he was the best rapper alive. Quickly enough, she was reminded he wasn’t alive after passing away in 1996.
“Not alive, I know, I keep doing that,” Harris said, before deciding not to name any other rappers she likes. “There’s so many. There are some I would not mention right now because they should stay in their lane.”
Donald Trump’s campaign later made fun of Harris by leaving a seat for ‘Pac at the vice presidential debate in October.
“I can confirm that we have left a ticket for Tupac Shakur, who as we know is Senator Harris’ favorite rapper alive,” senior adviser Jason Miller said. “I don’t know if he shows up… I’m personally more of a Biggie fan, if he’s still alive, but we will have a ticket waiting for Mr. Shakur.”
‘Pac’s brother Mopreme Shakur called the move “clearly disrespectful” and called out Trump’s “lack of respect for the Black and brown community.” According to TMZ, Mopreme said it’s all California love for Harris, gave her credit for her music taste and encouraged everyone to vote.
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Obviously, it’s impossible to know whether he would have voted for Joe Biden, Trump or anyone at all, but ‘Pac spoke about Trump’s mentality in a 1992 interview with MTV.
“This world is such a gimme, gimme, gimme, everybody back off place,” he said. “You’re taught that in school and in big business if you want to be successful, if you want to be like Trump, it’s ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme. Push, push, push. Step, step, step. Crush, crush, crush.’”
Revisit his comments below.
Pac was amazing. But trumps mentality in 92 and now are probably worlds apart. How do u step down from being a zillionaire and playing golf with other zillionaires and rappers singing your praises in songs and living and loving the best life….
To knowingly becoming the most hated American in the world just so help a country up that seemed to be down on its knees for free… and be a gimme gimme crush crush step step on type of guy? I miss when everyone was allowed to have an opinion without being chastised for it. That’s, amongst other things, what Pac stood for. Guess what? You can vote for trump and not be a racist bigot … and u can vote for Biden without supporting socialism. We’re being lied to constantly and I wish I could still come to HIPHOP to get away from the bullshit, to be motivated to stand against it… now it’s just as pussy as pop or country
Yesss !!! ???
Great post and what makes it better is that I don’t agree w/ you 100% but your words about healthy dialogue are on point.
Salute! Even if you don’t agree with me 100%… it’s all said out of love and we can still respect each other. HIPHOP is supposed to unite the underrated. It’s a community and a culture where ANYONE that’s been through real struggle can stand up together and have a voice AGAINST the powers that put us in said positions. I miss that. Right now, that’s not what it is, but I have high hopes in an authentic return of real rap. The HIPHOP that raised me is dead, but it can be resurrected again.
These politicians lie and will say whatever just to get black votes. Neither one is for black folks. They want felonies to vote, but won’t give you a way to expunge your record if you made a mistake over a decade ago. They crucify you, but they the biggest criminals of them all. I’m not voting for either one. I never voted in my life. Why? They don’t give a fuck about us!
I actually have felonies and I’m voting for Biden
If you’re not going to vote why are you here with an opinion?
Just shut the fuck up and stay in a corner and let us make our choices.
What the fuck u want a biscuit, because u have a felonie. on no ur such a criminal.
Bet your fingers hurt from all that tough tapping you’re from behind a computer clown
Learn to spell idiot
Don’t you have spell check and you still spelled Felony wrong?
All you other idiots what’s the point of having an opinion if you’re not making your voice heard?….idiots
You tripping because he had an opinion. That’s the problem right there. Same outcome no progress.
A felon voting for a criminal who sells out America to the Ukraine and China. Figures. You’re probably a child molester like Joe Biden is as well.
That pac ticket for the debate was an amazing burn, Trump team trollage at it’s best. Overall, fuck Trump and Biden. Kanye is the only officially crazy one but sounds the least crazy when you compare what these dudes are saying.
jesus christ are there any other words of wisdom from the brother rather than his talk about greed.
When an educated/researched vote counts the same as the bobo who voted biden for a nude of a youtube chick…I’ve given up and refuse to be made a fool of. Show me a passionate voter and I’ll show you a sucker. Pac was alive when Joe pushed the crime bill, is there any footage of how he felt about it? Maybe listen to some lyrics…I’m pretty sure Pac would’ve told you to stay home with the candidates of the last 2 elections. This is so disingenuous and disrespectful…even more so considering all gaffes Kamala has had dropping Pac’s name
No fucking way 2️⃣Pac ? Makavelli would be a Trump supporter
There’s no way in hell that Pac would be a Trump supporter!! He wouldn’t support either party but had he been around to mature as an older adult he would’ve voted for Obama twice when he ran for office and more than likely vote for Biden/Harris.
Your not so smart because 2pac knows Trump and everything he has done was as a business man not a politician and hell no he wouldn’t vote for Biden as he is responsible for the 100’s of Thousands Minorities incarcerated until Trump made a bill to help rehabilitation program to get them back on their feet! Ignorant is bliss
What rehabilitation bill crab brain with a wig passed? He can’t spell rehabilitation. And if he didn’t make money it didn’t make sense for him. Miss me with that bs please. We need a bill when we vote to make it law to be a president. Can we start with just the basic ummm high school diploma. I want even mention college anything yet.?
The media got people heavily opinionated about shit they don’t even know. Got the most ignorant people turning into politicians all of a sudden. It’s incredible. The way I see it. Let people do what they feel and shut the fuck up. Why is it so dire for you to have everyone agree with you? Biden said you ain’t black if you don’t vote for him. Is that not a disturbing statement to make? We already see Trumps shit. So is it SO crazy to feel like u know what, fuck then both? Is it so crazy to state the obvious that neither one of them really give a fuck about black and brown people? I think so. I think playing this lesser evil game has never done us good. Why do we still like to play the same games and then get upset with the same results? People are crazy. Biden done had every celeb campaign for him. Is that not weird? Obama rallied so much for Biden you would’ve thought he was running for president again. Lol. Think people.
I don’t think Trump was being disrespectful, he was being himself; and was trying to point out that Harris was trying to win brownie points from the black community by putting Tupac in her mouth. If you pay attention to the words that come out of Trumps mouth, you will see he doesn’t have a filter; and he has a dry sense of humor that comes out to be disrespectful. I’m just saying.
2 is ROBERT SENDEJO, he is also a rap artist. He is the music generator and writes all the lyrics. He owns all copyrights, patents, they are his inventions. He is a Republican. Tupac Shakur helps out, using his multi talents in any industry wit 2.
The rap game ain’t the same since pac left now every rapper is Donald Trump rapping about how much money they got
Na, Pac done said tht if was to live long enough tht he promises tht the African American community will have its own political party…
I believe that 2pac was a rebel if he was alive the game would be different and he would have been for change cause he always spoke of better days for black people in song and action so unfortunately he was killed before he got a chance to go into who he was really going to be still the best to ever do it