Do you think Al Sharpton is a hypocrite to insinuate his dislike of hip-hop violence now?

Question

Wasn't the same Sharpton reported as wanting to lead "an army of Hip Hop artist down to Cuba. The New York Daily News is reporting that Sharpton has been in talks with Interscope record executive Steve Stoute to explore ways that the Hip Hop industry and Castro's Cuba could hook up and take the first steps to ending the long standing embargo that exists between the US and Cuba. According to the reports Sharpton's position is there is no reason that African Americans can not break bread with Cuba..." .Wasn't he and Jesse Jackson fans of "gangster" rappers, like Tupac Shakur? Shakur was in and out of prisons for sexual abuse and yet Sharpton referred to him as "warm, sensitive and intelligent." Looks like Sharpton's counselling of Tupac didn't work. Tupac never got out of his thug life, and was shot dead by probably a competitive rapper of violent songs!!
http://www.alleyezonme.com/2pacarticles/tupacshakur/3/Tupac_Shakur_Dies_of_Gunshot_Wounds.html

THE HIP HOP GENERATION
by Rev. Al Sharpton
http://www.daveyd.com/FNVDec302002.html
That speech of his was in 2002. Goes to show that he's just Talk but no action. For verbal violence and abuses in Gansta rap music continues to this day.

Answer 1

Al Sharpton is like those people you see on television that claim to speak to the dead. He says things that the present audience wants to hear. He knows that "hip hop" is garbage, but if he starts to protest and make a publicity stunt out of stopping it, he will lose his supporters in the black community. So he tells the media what they want to hear, then he tells the rappers and promoters that he was only grandstanding and not to worry. Since all of this started about 1 1/2 weeks ago, I have seen no record labels come out and fire any of the producers or rappers. I have seen none of them come out and take a stand against any of it. I have also seen no protests or calls for boycotts against the record labels or rappers. I have seen Sharpton and the other hypocrite Jackson stand outside CBS with signs and cameras, lord don't forget the cameras, and demand CBS fire Imus. It is really a joke. The record labels and "artists" will keep their mouth shut and continue to make vulgar, racist "music" all the while knowing that Sharpton and the black community will let the issue die and white people in America are too afraid to do something about it.

Answer 2

al sharpton is a asshole and a hypocrit, but so are you for bringing pac into this, if you gonna try diss somebody and smash them read up and get some facts.

Because you obviously did not find any bob will teach you little bit bout pac and T.H.U.G L.I.F.E.

Al for once said something that was no idiotic and hypocritical, 2pac was warm, sensetive and intelligent. 2pac was one of the only rappers to ever make songs that directly addressed women, not as sex objects or even objects of romance, 2pac's song keep ya head up addressed women like they were just another homie, he did not suggest anything sexual in that song, he encouraged men to start treating women more equally and fairly as well as telling women when life is hard and you "fall, stand tall come back for more and keep ya head up" He also made many positivie songs that were full of nothing but love, Changes, Dear Mama, Life Goes On and more. Pac was never afraid to show what he felt, some times he was angry and said stupid stuff, but he was never afraid to be real and even in the height of the bad boy death row beef pac was STILL real.

Another common misperception of tupac was his thug life, thug life stood for
The Hate U Give Lil Infants F'ucks Everyone and his philosophy behind it was that together by uniting and putting aside racial tensions and hate we could change communitys and eventually the world to be a better place. 2pac's definition of a thug behind thug life was not the one from the dictionary and not someone who beats up people and commits crimes, his defentiion of a thug was "someone who came from the gutter and against all odds are still here today, even when everyone else said they arnt nothin, when peopel told them they couldnt acomplish anything and just being the underdog that no one belives in, but proving them wrong." Pac felt no one udnerstood thug life and didnt give a chance, because he felt america is the defention of thug life, they said america could not win the war, the british were much more powerful and no one believed in the colonies, yet in the end america won.

2pac had a lot of philosophy's and poetic themes and ideas bob cannot all list here, bob would highly suggest you watch the documentry "Tupac Ressurection" it is a excellent documentry that captures 2pac's life, it does not just focous on the parts of tupacs life that they wanted to like you did, they did not just see the positive and good times in his life they focoused on his life in general and seen the BIG picture, because to judge something fairly and not be biased you have to see the big picture and not just the little parts you want to see. We can bring out hte positive and negative in anybody, but that aint worth **** unless you put them together and look at them fairly, part of being right is admitting you can also be wrong.

2pac was a good man and like people said before "why do you think people in the hood and the ghetto are embracing thug life and tupac more then anyone else? because 2pac spoke to them more then any teacher, politican, preacher or anyonelse for that matter ever did."

Answer 3

not all hip hop is detrimental sexist or violent.

Tupac did leave the ganster life style, some people glorify it, i don't think tupac really did. Like boyz n the hood was somewhat promoting the image but it also had a moral at the end and said that this leads to misery. Some people just don't see the whole picture they are just hypnotized by the more shocking aspects.

Answer 4

I can't begin to talk about Sharpton--he does more harm than good.

But, please, be kind to the memory of Tupac! He was a sensitive and intelligent poet who got mixed up in something that took control of his life--and took his life! Much of what he wrote was not violent, but violence is what sells. I blame a lot of "rapper violence" on the record labels. I've known a number of rappers in my city who tried to do clean, non-violent, non-misogynistic poetry who could not get picked up by labels because what they did "would not sell".

Answer 5

Al Sharpton has been a lying shakedown artist for nearly 20 years now.

Answer 6

Al Sharpton is about as classy as a used car salesman.

Answer 7

Al is a goonie goo goo and needs a high heel thrown at his waxy head. Where is his mama when we need her to put on a whooping.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

what i think of brother al and jessie can not be recorded here due to the ugly words that I would use

your are really putting car salesmen down here,,"you people" need to stop that

Answer 10

no he is not