Michael Jai White on 2Pac Fans Mad at Him for Calling Him Effeminate, Pac Not a Street Guy (Part 16)
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Michael Jai White discussed the complex image of late rapper Tupac Shakur, arguing that the perception of him as a 'gangster' was largely a constructed image and not representative of the diverse aspects of his character or reality. He argued that the effects of this performance resonated beyond Tupac himself and influenced young people, who are often persuaded by and embrace 'gangster culture.' Additionally, the interview delved into Tupac's complicated family background, revealing how his assumed fatherhood identity deeply influenced the rapper's own personal identity and projected image. Michael, however, highlighted that such 'performances' are not unique to Tupac, but rather common in the music industry, citing examples such as Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube, who initially presented themselves as hardcore gangsters but later revealed more complex personalities. - บันเทิง
The black community would have been in a much better place today had there been greater recognition and admiration for honest, hard-working individuals such as truck drivers in the 90s, rather than glorifying drug dealers, pimps, and gang bangers.
Right like truck drivers are inherently punks or something. They literally are just doing a job. What is wrong with that and what does that have to do with how tough a person is??
@@FlyyScienceYou know what they say about truck drivers ? They're werid as fuck. There's a reason they work solo and on the long road lol😂
Right because those drug dealers pimps and bangers are dead in jail or Truck drivers 😮😮
Blame the media 😂 blks don’t own it on the flip side the media made other races scared or hate blks
Well the problem was the Black community wouldn't accept those type of folks. Remember when MC Hammer was out back in those days trying to be a positive rapper folks were calling him a sellout for doing commercials, cartoons, being a pop rapper etc and he was being attacked by all the other rappers. Now Snoop and other rappers could make a song with Tom Jones while hosting Family Feud and no one has a problem with it. Back then though you'd be called a sellout and made fun of.
“Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I’m not the thief who grabs your purse. I’m not the guy who jacks your car. I’m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I’m just a brother who fight back.”
- Tupac Shakur
2pac "A smoking-ass nigga robbed me blind
I got a TEC-9 now his smokin' ass is mine
I guess I felt sorry for the bastard, he was broke
I didn't know he smoked so I didn't watch him close
He caught me on the sneak tip, now the punk's in deep shit
Catch him on the streets, I'mma bring him to his feet, quick
Pass the clip, I think I see him comin' now
Fuck the bullshit, posse deep and let's run him down"
Exactly
They won’t look at that tho let’s you know this world full of haters
Exactly he never claimed to be a gangster yet ppl want to paint him as a fake one when he never claimed he was
He sure act liked a "gangster"the night he died...so get over it....
Pac definitely had a soft side but that didn't mean he was any less masculine
Definitely means that
I agree
@@jamesprall9964 nah just meant he knows how to get more puss than u. Emotionally connect with females. That y even now he dead u would never fuck as much chicks as pac
@@jamesprall9964 lol some of u dudes can't even talk to a chick masculine juiced up fools lol 😆
BLACK PANTHERS MADE HIM A HERU. NOT GANGS
Never heard Pac saying his dad was a hustler. Only heard Pac say his dad wasn't around period.
Tupac shot at 2 off duty police. More gangster than any of the rappers today .
wtf is off-duty???
And never even bragged about it !!!
@@Totododofodo that means he didn't know they were cops you doofus. You 2Pac fanboys always wanna had some sauce when it comes to that dead ballerina. It always amazes me ridiculous idiotic you 2Pac fanboys are
He didn't know they were tho...but once again..
Why didnt he hop out and confront them?
U Can't just go around shooting people and can't go around hitting people..
That aint gangsta..that's stupid and reckless
🧢. Never happened. Do some research
I seen a 17 year old kid who seemed intelligent doing an interview in the 80s… it wasn’t no need for him to be gangsta at that moment.. Pac is calm in most of his interviews. This guy and Vlad just bring up Pac for views. Pac fans shouldn’t even get mad, obviously he played a role in their life at some point for them to still talk about him in 2023.
Facts. But remember I don’t think Vlad and Michael are dissin 2pac
He cousin said he would dumb himself to connect and relate to the people. When I took a class on him and college my professor said that he had two faces and that THUG face was to connect with those kind of people but he got caught in his persona
@@elijahparis-salmon9943same they just having convos everybody always think somebody is hating if somebody did xy&z and you're taking an honest look it you have to say xy and z that's all it is
Exactly Vlad uses Pac for views he doesn’t ever bring up what Pac said in certain songs and interviews…..the reason why we love Pac is because he told us all his insecurities in his music and interviews Pac always said the real so nobody can use it against him
100% right
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I love how you pretend to believe that Orlando and them killed Tupac. Keep pushing that agenda
Your environment can change you , you have to do what you gotta to do to survive
I’m not a Tupac Stan, but I don’t think he thought he was a gangster he was just a loyal ass dude(to a fault which got him killed) but if he rolled with you he rolled with you to the end. His loyalty was his downfall; because the people he thought was loyal to him really wasn’t.
That's a fact and the bottom line.
Facts
So I don't think I'm a gangster but I'm going to get thug life tatted across my stomach and that makes sense to you
Yep. Ultimately that loyalty is what got him killed.
Right but Tupac just got out of prison so his mindset was on gangsta life since suge bailed him out of jail
I dont know Pac personally but I would hate people to judge me when I was 17 compared to when I was 25. Especially off a 10 min interview.
Girls that didn't want me at 17 in high school, couldn't even fck with me at 25 after becoming a professional, having been exposed to so much and gone through things i hadn't experienced then.
I don't get why people judge 2pac for having 2 sides like we all don't. I grew up with "ghetto" friends but can still blend in the corporate world. Everything doesn't have to be so black and white.
I know guys that did robberies and played Pokemon 😂
Pac would've made it passed 96 had he stayed tht same 17 yr old though
@@FRANKIBABI__ how do you know that was Pac's personality? People who grew up with him said he was always getting into conflict since a kid. That could have been a front for tv.
Even if Pac had to be a made-up studio gangster, I still respect him more than any of these clowns who only threaten, rob and kill their own. Pac shot 2 off duty cops to save a black man whom he didn't know. That tells me more than enough I need to know about his character.
@@iseerashonal821 u didn't grow up wit the studi0 gayster though..he's just a fantasy to you
@@FRANKIBABI__ go listen to Ray luv interview he knew Pac at that age and said that same 17 year old kid was always down he literally went to some street dudes and confront them for jumping one of his friends
People forget that same 17 year old was performing panther power on stage had the same movements he did when he got older
This dude gotta understand that people are more than just what they are when they’re around you like it’s so narcissistic
It’s so sad that people tend to throw dirt on that man’s name for attention. Rather than celebrating his life, people will do anything to stay relevant.
They do that to all celebrities even the ones that past away
Yeah they sh*t all over him but would never do it while he lived.
"They'll Talk Shit About Me But That's After I'm Gone Because They FEAR Me In The Physical Form"... Tupac.
Why not? It’s not like he was remotely scary. Truth be told he was probably a closet gay.
He was just a regular guy the idol worship is real Who cares about this guy who cares if he's dead Do you know how many people Have killed people to 2pac music?
Don't be a follower be a leader who cares about these puppets rappers
People talking about whether you were a “gangster” or not 30 years after you’ve been dead is beyond me. If it wasn’t said to his face, leave it the fuck alone. Y’all didn’t even know Pac to be making all these assumptions.
Mad
But he actually did know and hang with pac....🤦😭
You clearly ain't seen his interview.. He is the only person on here who HAS spent time with him 🤦🏿♂️
Tupac fans so emotional
So yeah...you pretty much just confirmed what MJW was saying about Tupac cultists.
2pac said himself that he wasn’t a gangster but he also wasn’t a pushover!!! Gotta respect it. They said he always had a wild side
Pac wasn't a thug neither
@@Totododofodo thug is a thug. A millionaire is a millionaire you just can’t redefine words to suit your needs. You 2Pac fanboys are really pathetic. How you grow a brain you groupie. You sound soft asf
So why in his music was he talking about killing kids women selling drugs etc ? And then in same music say he isnt a killer ?
Cap u act like a woman, look at what he did not said.
@@neetea2 Just musicc! That's like saying hes a thug cause he has it tatted on him! everything isn't what you see
I’m from Marin County California I had the opportunity to be around 2 Pac when I was about 8 to 10 years old. One of my best friends was Hiroji Pratt, which is Geronimo Pratt son, which is 2Pac’s godfather. He has always been a revolutionary individual. I love you, Michael, but at the same time you have to understand that he was 20% of black kids that went to that high school and he probably was filming something for the high school and he was presenting him to himself a certain way. Are used to ride to Richmond with 2 Pac with my sister because they were dating each other for a short moment at the top and that’s when that footage was filled. We were in a Chevy van 20 on San Pablo dipping in Yoaking before it was even a thing. so I can understand your alpha male perspective but I understand he was also only 17 years old. What were you doing at 17 and why does that make him any different than who you are today?
If you were truly around, you'd know it wasn't a school interview
I’m from the Bronx, everyone that’s heavy in the streets now been heavy in the streets since they was like 13 or 14, most dudes like baby lane been in Juvey or locked up by 17 just saying
bro you gotta make video 📹 and record this to TH-cam. I'm sure Vladdy & MJW are intelligentenought to know better that 2pac was giving an interview to school teachers / faculty, What exactly did they expect him to do.. 🤷🏽♂
Go in the interview cursing and screaming.. '' THUGLIFE MF SHUT UP !! IM A STREET DUDE ! MF WHAT ??? '' Smdh🤦🏽♂
What they are doing is intentionally trying to create controversies at the expense of insulting 2PAC SHAKUR , and that speaks to their characters.
I'm no longer a fan of MJW , im not shocked at VLAD stooping this low but MJW was an is disappointing. Smh.. The things people will do for fortune & fame.
SO I'M ASKING YOU BRO..
Please consider you & your sister documenting on youtube your truth to video so people who really didn't know TUPAC like Vlad & MJW wont be able to slight his memory.
Thanks
Did Tupac have the same charisma in person as he did on camera?
MJW was literally in the streets at 17 lol
Michael Jai White done pissed off the Bruce Lee fans and the Tupac fans 😂 Who's next, MJW?
To
Be fair i
Never seen footage of MJW in tournaments so be could be fake too!
All this tells me is that 2pac was so ahead of his time that you have to go allllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to highschool, just to hate on a guy who has been gone for over 27 years. No one will ever be able to replace Pac
Hiw when pac wasn't anymore ahead of them crips tht caught back up wit him at the speed of light 😅
It wasn’t hate at all. He was a closet gay. Fans don’t like it but it’s true.
Pac was not ahead of his time. almost everything he said was already said before. but you 2Pac fanboys have o education and just believe hype
@FRANKIBABI__ you sound real stupid 😂😂😂😂 just like the other 2 comments 😂😂😂😂 yall must've been born 25 yrs ago
Let the man rest.
General question, how many times was he around Pac?
More than anyone in this comments section!! He hung with Pac on a few occasions pre Death Row times. Shooting pool etc
Like 2-3 times, yet he speaks as if, he was always around Pac 😂
@@its_rick_james_bich2575 true but Pac being a certain way w/ him makes him think that’s how Pac really was. Pac could’ve fought 12 niggas all at once and this man would still say he’s playing a role. That shit lame asl.
@@its_rick_james_bich2575no he didn’t according to Napoleon who actually was around Tupac he only interacted with 2pac once. Everyone who knew Tupac says he was the opposite of what Jai white ie saying about him. It’s funny how you won’t take their opinion but you’ll take Jai white’s who didn’t even know 2pac.
@@NoName-od2qj that’s because I’ve done my own research on Pac over the years from more than two peoples opinions. I don’t just use Vlad interviews as my source of truth! I’ve then applied my own common sense! I’ve also come to learn the outlaws are very biased in their opinions. Although Fatal in an interview for the 2003 documentary..Beef admitted Tupac wasn’t a street guy and didn’t know certain street codes..that’s why he’s dead. There is also a number of other sources I can sight.
My suggestion would be for you to search for the truth outside of just Vlad interviews!
Notice how you’ll never hear real street dudes hate on Pac. They all respect him, including his enemies . It’s always the weird, suburbanites, cornballs straight from the hills who got something to say.
Facts and this dude claims to be a fighter with no fight record lol 😂I did karate and can actually show my record this clown is a phony who hates on pac
Right!!
So real street dudes are the ones to aspire to.😂
Street dudes see him for what he was. Someone playing a part. A closet gay.
@@stevebb2915 you must be a goofy a$$ New York ninja lol ask biggie about those hollow tips !!
Things vlad is obsessed with
1. Prison rape
2. 2pac getting killed
3. Boosie
4. Whos Snitching
You 4got Chicago drill rappers
@@unclemoneybags1022 The viewers are obsessed with this content, vlad is just providing his clientele with what they want...
Then wtf is the art of dialogue then
@3rdGenerationCancer art of dialogue isn't obsessed with 2pac's demise like Vlad is
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People fail to realize that was PAC at 17 before he moved to OAKLAND CA! Where he was put on and taught the game. He changed but he was never feminine. He was just in touch with his emotional self
Tupac self admittedly said he was in tough with his feminine side (MTV interview w/ Tabitha Soren 1995), but there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, I think that's partly what made Tupac great.
😂
What the hell can Oakland teach you that Harlem and B-More can't????
Sounds pretty gay to me bruv
@FlyyScience thank you for the facts
a lot of people are different things in life...its called growth & circumstances 🙄🙄🙄 if Im in the projects Ima be a certain way...if Im @ church Ima be a certain way...if Im in prison Ima be a certain way 🤷
For him to have known PAC and called himself his friend it’s funny to me that he never told PAC any of this to his face or made reference to any of these comments when he was alive, to address it when he’s dead is feminine to me 💯
Male jealousy keep it a buck
That man didn't know Tupac at all!!!
I agree. For instance ,Michael Jai White plays a kung fu man that can beat 10 dudes at one time but have we ever really seen him fight one guy in real life.
Facts!!!
Look it up you'll find some... But like he said y'all haters too lazy to do that. Not to mention the countless people who also have seen him fighting his youth. Either you're young af or lazy but he been whoopin on people 🤦🏿♂️.
@@celsac40so has Mike Tyson who also loved and respected PAC.
Exactly.. Pac's image was a fantasy.
Not really he actually died
Damn, this is crazy!! Grown men discussing a 17yr old boy. He was talking the reality of his life. Bet you can’t stop another black man being harassed by the police
This still doesn't change the fact that there are 49 million Kangaroos in Australia & 3.5 million people in Uruguay. Which means if the Kangaroos from Australia were to invade Uruguay, each person would have to fight 14 Kangaroos.
Facts 💯
turn your computer off and go outside bro
thats why im never visiting Uruguay
😂😂😂😂😂 to comment and all responses.
Kangaroos don’t wear bullet proof vest so please be quiet
2pac was so smart, he knew how to read the room and adapt at 17, he was just being formal and unthreating, this was essentially a job interview
What this guy (D list actor) and other 2pac haters dont understand is this. We didnt like 2pac because he was "gangster" it was because he was a very talented rapper/overall performer and artist, stood up for himself, his people and the oppressed, and expressed himself and his views of the world on his records in a very passionate way. People all over the world related to him, they FELT him like no other
Just bcuz others don't like the rappers you like does not mean they are Haters. Stop worshipping rap stars like their God. Stop making up excuses on why everybody should pray to 2pac like you do. Grow up.
Once they disagree with your opinion they call you a hater 😂😂😂 smh
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@dapo09 What do you think about the 2Pac in that interview they're referring to? Does he look effeminate?
@@acpjr I can go into ANYONES childhood and find things they would be embarrassed about as an adult. Including this hater MJW
this man is dropping gems.. If young black kids actually listen to what he's saying, they might saved themselves from getting shot or going to jail..
True Michael Jai White is a legend bruv 💪🏽
WHAT HE IS SAYING IS WHAT PAC WAS SAYING IN 95% OF HIS SONGS. THAT'S WHYVPEOPLE GET HOOKED ON PAC WHEN THEY REALLY START TO LISTEN TO HIS SONGS.
Hey Michael, what did Pac say on his Makaveli album? "I'M NOT A KILLA SO DON'T PUSH ME"🤔. Dude for pac was a teenager going through changes. You start to see him becoming a man towards the last 3yrs of his life. Pac never claim to be a killa or gangster and said so many times.
2pac that thug life was just for imagery
I've seen 2Pac twice in person and he damn sure didn't look effeminate to me.
When and where did you see him?
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@@dalkurd1pac stans 😂
no one said he looks effeminate sir, lol. what he is saying that he adopted an inauthentic street personality thats not reallly his. i think he got a point
@@dalkurd1 Greenbrier Mall in Atlanta before he got shot the first time and when he was with "Digital Underground" at a Bobby Brown concert in Augusta, GA. At the end of they set he did the first verse to "I Get Around" accapala style and the crowd went crazy.
No he wasn’t street, he wasn’t feminine, but a 17 year old articulate young man that was trying to find his way in this cruel world 😢
Exactly...He was revolutionary,too.
Right. I don't like how they are trying to associate gender to certain behaviors. The softness shown in that 1988 is the same softness shown in that 1995 interview with Tabitha Soren and a Gridlock'd interview in 1996.
Because the world was cruel to only him right? 😂
@@FlyySciencebeing effeminate has nothing to do with gender or being soft. it’s just about him having feminine qualities as a young teen/ adult.
@@TosereOjeme2 can you explain to me what feminine qualities are?
Has anyone noticed how pissed off MJW looks in ALL of these thumbnails 😭😭
Lol
he hates pac with a passion 😭😭😭
MJW never watched the full interview because Pac said he grew up poor in poverty.. At 17 years old 2 of his friends got killed.. He was arrogant and told his boss to fuck off while smoking a cigarette. 2 Pac was always the same person. He was rebellious in the interview at 17 and all his music reflected that personality. MJW watched the 2 minute clip but when you watch the full 36 minutes you see where Pac was coming from
Bro, there’s nothing wrong with sayin the truth - in that interview Pac was a lot more effeminate.
@themarathoncontinues4211 you never watched the interview if you say that.
@@Velly2g I’ve watched the full thing twice and that’s how I felt bro. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it just is what it is. You could still see the man who eventually became in that video, but his mannerisms and way of expression was affected by being raised by single mom.
@themarathoncontinues4211 no the fuck they weren't. My god there's some stupid people out here
I always saw him as more militant minded and soldier influenced like his mom rather than “gangster”. People use gangster and tough too synonymously
Why didn’t he say that to Tupac face right then and there
He didn't know there would be internet obseesed fans hailing him as a hero 25+years later after meeting him..
That wasnt the Pac he was around..
@@deezerbee81 No forget the internet and fans. I don’t do that nonsense of slick dissing or saying anything after the fact. You tell that person right then to his face. Also he didn’t know tupac he met tupac. Tupac always denounced being a gangster. Tupac may have been wild this guy died at 25. Or the fact like many MEN WE NOT GOING FOR CERTAIN THINGS. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING A GANGSTER. If you ask my mom I’m innocent and perfect other people who know me will tell different versions of me
There are blogs dedicated to every moment of him....
It's regurgitated and looped....
It's Michael Jai white's experience with him....
Like u say ...what your mother think u are and the people you interact with..will have different experiences...
You can't discount Michael's Experience because he's not hailing him as a GOD..
He met the man...
Why would he need to tell Pac that?
They ran in different circles
Mike is my guy, but Mike is just as obsessed with Pac as Vlad, Nore, and a whole lot of grown ass men.
How do you call yourself a 2Pac fanboy without calling yourself a 2Pac fanboy
Pac wasn't a street guy...he was a street reporter...all his music before Death Row he was more militant black power..
The thing is Tupac admitted in interviews that he is feminine from being raised by a woman. The part we have an issue with he’s acting like Tupac is ACTING ALL THE TIME .. there’s videos of Tupac walking around NYC acting brash .. then there’s later interviews with him acting relaxed and polite .. he was both.
"People talk a lot of shit, but that's after I'm gone... cuz they fear me in the physical form" - 2pac. No doubt Michael Jai White could've easily knocked the fuck outta Pac, but what he fails to forget is that he stuck it on real Chicago street niggaz, shot 2 off duty police officers and survived 5shots the first time round and he stood for his people. That's more street than anything MJ White has ever done or even think of doing. He's a great martial artist in general though.
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A moot point
Pac could've dropped him
@@smacctubetv4154 nah
@@dylanhopkins5934 with a straight Right down the centerline (tko) possibly knockout if its the followup of the jab. I believe big brother pac had the ability to do it yes sir
Let the man rest. Please 🙏🏽.
He died at 25. So let’s just remember him as someone who came from nothing and work hard for what he accomplished.
There’s nothing good about been a gangster anyways.
I agree
They would let MJ go they have to bring him up
Exactly this 55 year old man is speaking on something from 30 years ago
@@YoungShowgunnpeople shouldn’t speak on history just because they said something that challenges your perception of a celebrity you like? We talk about famous figures and events from the past all of the time. Pac should be no exception to this rule.
@@jeanmichele3843 dont put words in my mouth. Spawn here lived to be 55 but is judging a person who was only 25 at their demise. Black ppl have a at work persona, around the guys persona, around family persona, etc. Just because he knows how to act around certain people doesn’t mean when he was being aggressive it was an act.
Michael J white can play a bad ass in movies! But can he actually be bad ass enough in real life to to stand up to cops abusing a brother? Hell no
exactly
Vlad so corny man, nothing was created on paper the man (Tupac) grew up in abject poverty moving from ghetto after ghetto he literally grew up in the life of what a lot of these so called ‘gangsters’ proclaim to have been. Even suge knight didn’t grow up as rough as Tupac did… what exactly made Tupac fake Vlad? Your trying to over analyze the man’s life without putting yourself in his shoes. he wanted education over being a street legend. And he was smart/courageous enough to follow a different path in college however his story and upbringing is all authentic and that’s what made Tupac a intriguing character.
P.s you grew up with Jewish parents and are a white Ukrainian but somehow you know so much about American black struggles? How can you possibly know that? Not by your own experience but by the people you actively seek information from.
Know yourself first Vlad if anything bro
Pac was a lot of things the most important part was him was his panther/revolutionary side which he lived to the fullest especially earlier in his life. Not the "thug" aspect of him. Also early on he was effeminate it is what it is even he said " if you look at me you can tell where I didn't have a father ".
Also his music his music was versatile it hit some many subjects that people don’t want to admit
The thing I hate people try to expose Pac but he said all his flaws in his interviews that’s why his true fans go so hard for him cause Pac is the type of person that will expose himself before you even get a chance to use it against him
What revolutionary/black panther knowledge was he dropping? What is he best know for? Bob Marley was a revolutionary. What did pac really push? Exactly destruction. Smh.
He lived and believed in the Thug Life =The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone which’s not to be confused with criminal activities. ❤
He was riding on Bad Boy, Jay, Nas, and a whole other black people simply because he wanted to be seen as a thug not necessarily a revolutionary
Pac was a man ahead of his time. He wasn't the most street dude. But he looked at them who are as punks.
How was Pac ahed of his time. You 2Pac keep saying these cliches but have no substance to back it up
@@3rdGenerationCancerfacts
Amazing hearing ppl who never met tht man tell ppl who knew him how to think of him
I think because he accomplished and went through so much so early, people forget pac was an immature 25 year old at the end.
ABSOLUTELY
25 is a grown ass man. People need to stop with that narrative.
What age is a “man” reasonably expected to be “mature” 35? 40?
My younger brother is 25 and he teaches art to highschool students… it’s 25 years old men that married with kids.
@@Jawnwickk only in America do ppl think 25 is grown. There is a reason why other cultures have a stronger ecosystem because the grace of 25 yr old in most cultures doesn't exist I America, especially black America. African and Asian culture a 25 yr old man probably still lives with his parent contributing to their ecosystem until he finds a bride. A woman Generally doesn't leave until she is married but in America there is a sick psychological disconnect with age where for decades where as a society yall want children to be more grown than what they really are. Soon teenagers having sex changes will be a thing because 16 will be considered grown
@@hmosesmamulu6491 Man that’s a cop out and not even true. My partner is a Chinese immigrant to United States. China has something called “Guan Li” which it’s an adulthood ceremony that happens at age 20. They may live at home but that is for financial reasons or help take care of the family, but they become a “man of the house”. Bat Mitzvah/ “coming off age” happen at age 13. Different culture have different “markers” for when a boy becomes a man.
I don’t think there is anywhere in earth where the age 25 isn’t consider an adult.
@@Jawnwickk you just said...they may live at home because of financial issues...your words
Why do you think young 16 - 20 something yr Olds move out in America? For the same reasons your Asian lady's family may keep their children FOR THE SAME FINANCIAL ISSUES
Never said a 25 yr old wasn't an adult. What I'm saying is that only in the western world is a 25 yr old expected to be independent with life figured out.
Pac stans just can't accept the truth...
This isn’t the truth tho. He’s on the outside looking in.
What truth there to accept? People like Michael Jai White doesn’t understand Pac’s Hip Hop artistry. Tupac wasn’t advocating gangster or criminal activities. Thug Life is the opposite of crime.
@@jalencotton5577 Yep! just like you..
We know 2pac wasn't a street person like that, c'mon MJW. I've seen that interview you talking about, he seemed polight, articulate and we'll mannered. It doesn't give you a reason to call him effeminate. His siblings said even at that time 2pac could flip it on you, if you came sideways to him. That other Hughes brother explained 2pac's transformation nicely, for his artistry, not his personal character.
Why keep asking this dude about Tupac ??
Glad you are a great storyteller and Assumer
Pac was a chameleon. He was capable of quickly adapting to his environment.
Reality is MOST OF US do this.
Pac even admitted in multiple interviews how his image was not his reality. It was a blown up perception to protect the real him.
Michael Jai likes to present this image of a great fighter.
And while the brother in all likelihood is a highly competent fighter, he was never an active world class fighter.
Same goes for Bruce Lee.
MJW isn't hating, he's telling you that you're being sold an image. If you're okay worshipping an image that's fine. The name of the game is to create your own image to reflect. MJW is a grown ass, disciplined, honorable MAN! Listen. You might learn something.
2pac has never said he was a gangster. If you want to believe the mainstream media image of Tupac you go ahead but Michael a hater
@@BradleyUK what I'm saying and what Michael is saying is bigger than Tupac. It's not even about Tupac. There's a larger point.
@@BradleyUK He wanted to distance himself from other gangsta rappers and label himself a thug..
Still an image bein sold...y'all ate it up..
This interview is bringing me back to the mid to late 90's where hip-hop/the black community turned into more style than substance. It didn't matter if you wasn't a lyricist just manufactured a image for yourself then sell records. That's when it was kool for black people to become groupies
It's nothing that hadn't happened before the 90s or after the 90s.
The entertainment industry always was about style over substance
Name one man today that's exactly the same as they were in high school
I really don’t care who Tupac was, it’s who he became. A true Legend!
2pac never said or called himself a gangster
Hip Hop is an art form that happens to reflect life and Pac reflected real life and nothing was fake about that. That's why he lives even in his death because he's that real like that, like other greats before and after him. All love.
Go to any black barbershop and when they talk about pac. They don't say he was a artist. They say he was that character.
So he didn't embrace Thug Life ?
@@orlandogomez7776 Because he was that good. Which proves his depth in the artistry and his panther associations through his mom. Not hard to believe ❤️
@@hareemobduljawon Thug Life = The Hate U Gave Little Infants Fucks Everyone. Thug Life isn’t criminal activities but describes a person who started out with nothing and built themselves up to be something like an underdog or holding your head high even in adversity. 2pac explained it and it’s well documented.
Pac should've worked on hiz ballet craft more than hiz typecasted studi0 gayster act
Im just a brotha who tried to be a Compton gangbanger and jump movie and music video producers, I fight for my people by physically assaulting them. That’s what the panthers taught me” - pac
Bro he didn’t know pac lol errybody close to him said he was on go before juice.
Jai is a joke he doesn’t even know 2Pac he’s only met him a few time as he admitted 2Pac is a son of a Panthers his environment and upbringing was the catalyst that he use as ambition resilience . 2Pac has had more success in the 25 years of his life, then Michael White will never accomplish. Michael White is definitely washed up.
As you age your voice deepens. Common sense. And you can change alot from 17 to 19.
Long after we are gone, people will remember Tupac more than THis guy. Let the dead rest
We lose the beautiful nuance life has to offer when we force everything into a box. Two things at the very least can be true at once. Even things that look contradictory on the surface can be simultaneously true.
They say that Pac wasnt a Gangsta because he was a rapper but Orlando Anderson himself tried to go into the Rap game, he was even with Bone Thugs in the studio..MFERS contridicting themselfs and hating on Pac, Pac is on some Che Guevara Level, above this stupid gangsta shit, he was a soldier, ya killed your King, the ghetto cursed himself, so stay at the bottom of the ocean..
Michael Jay White, you re a martial arts actor, never had a fight, you aint a fighter, stop claiming to be able to jump Mike Tyson you re just a cartoon..
RIP TUPAC
When you delve a little deeper into 2 Pac's life before he blew up he wasn't that hardcore gangster rapper but more of a poet with black panther background through his mother. When I first started listening to Pac's music I honestly thought he was that guy but what Mike said here that pac is only playing a character for the masses can be said for the majority of rappers and singers in the industry.
This is before he blew up.
Tupac himself said he did not know who his dad was. He always said the man who openly claimed him as a son was a dude named Legs. So that says he was not making up a story to sound good on paper. He was confused himself. He had heard about the other man but knew very little of him. Meanwhile it was mutulu and the other guy legs who shaped his idea of what manhood should be like because he knew more about them.
I remember watching one of the dozens of Tupac and Biggie docs and on this one Ice-T was one of the talking heads and for whatever reason he didn't seem to think too highly of Tupac on a street level either
He was an art student. Read poetry and philosophy.
And ballet👯💃👯♂💃👯♀
@@3rdGenerationCanceryes he did ballet Pac told his fans that already it’s nothing new
@@gsosa4129 And neither is anything that was said. So what’s your point? You don’t have one. You just mad that fake thug you worship is a ballerina. FOH 2Pac fanboy
@@gsosa4129but Prodigy got crucified for dressing up as Michael Jackson at the age of 8....🤦🤦🤦
no shit sherlock
Ain't no point in even dragging this topic on. Pac fans hear what they wanna hear. They ain't gone listen even if it is true, cause Pac meant what he meant to them and anything other than praise said about him is taken as an insult.
Well put I agree
Your shirt says “OUTLAW”😳
Any video I seen that people who knew Pac would say Pac had different sides to him. He could do Poetry he can get on his gangsta shit. He would do songs uplifting women and he was a baby Panther.
Tupac knew how to navigate society to get to where he wanted but unfortunately he played in a very violent era.
RIP ❤
Great interview and I watched the interview, he's very sweet and wholesome, a side very few critics mention that he was also loved by many
Has anybody seen the interview? Whats it on?
"Inside my mind i couldn't find a place to rest until i got that thuglife tatted on my chest " He still hadnt gone to oak town yet.... He was all of it thats why he was brilliant...The concoction that changed the world....God bless the Dead..... I hear you though Michael but everthing is in perspective..I understand the psychology 💯 but the timeline is off....Yes it was only 2 years later that he then did Juice..Those 2 years he was in Oakland....Be put in an any environment for just 2 weeks and see if your not different.... In those 2 years he found the key ingredient added on to his education his political background Baltimore Ny his upbringing in the ghetto...It was a recipe that brought forth a beautiful mind with such wonderful passionate ideals and unparalleled ability till this day to express impactful moving words....That cant be faked....He was a real person and it costed him his life...I till this day wonder if people truly understand what we lost that day....The world 🌎 changed its trajectory completely the day he exited.Once in century type of people if your lucky......Last but not least, and that effeminate side your talking about is the side that emited keep your head up and brendas got a baby and dear mama ....I rest my case thats why we love him ....True to himself honest vulnerable and real all in the publics eye...What courage... Something we all are sensitive at heart none of us are gangsters and thugs were just products of our environment and have had to adapt to survive.....Thuglife Oulawz for Life!!!!
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Just show respect to the greatest of all time Tupac Shakur and just leave it alone
I think Tupac is now saying to himself man, this guy was so cool to me when we were hanging out shooting pool having fun and then he turns around and stabs me in the back by calling me effeminate like a female now after I pass away. That must be a bad feeling of helplessness for not being able to defend himself and betrayal for being talked about so badly by one of his so called “friends”. It’s sad how we do each other. First Bruce Lee and now Tupac.
It takes one minute to turn into an hour or even just a second, so people change.
I love this REAL interview. Great work
People hate what he said but it was true. He talked sweet. Period.
@@Totododofodo would be sus if there was a "t" on the end of it. Stop reaching. You are making yourself look bad.
Q: A number of your songs deal with--and some people say glorify--drug dealing and gang violence. What do you say to people who say you are a bad social influence?
PAC: Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I’m not the thief who grabs your purse. I’m not the guy who jacks your car. I’m not down with people who steal and hurt others. I’m just a brother who fights back. I’m not some violent closet psycho. I’ve got a job. I’m an artist.
Q: So why is gangbanging and violence so often the focus of your music?
PAC: Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs. To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff. What I want to know, though, is why all of a sudden is everybody acting like gangs are some new phenomenon in this country? Almost everyone in America is affiliated with some kind of gang. We got the FBI, the ATF, the police departments, the religious groups, the Democrats and the Republicans. Everybody’s got their own little clique and they’re all out there gangbanging in their own little way.
The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn’t get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can’t accept it. It doesn’t fit into those negative stories they like to write. I’m the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean’s “Vincent,” that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That’s how I want to make my songs feel. Take “Dear Mama”--I aimed that one straight for my homies’ heartstrings.
2pacalypse Now dropped in 91 when he was 20. Its obvious yal didn't hear the subject matter on that which back then he had to write at 18 or 19 or even before that because it took that long to press up and release albums then.
He not hating on Tupac I know what video he talking about but ok
😂🤦🏽♂️It's so weird to See people in these comments trying to cope with the reality of the situation
this dude has had a grudge against pac since he was a bell boy and pac lil bro'd him. let it go, kid 🤣
MJW had that "FOH" look when Vlad quoted 2Pac.
Who cares we still like him more than u lol
I'm not mad at him for saying that. I grew up on Pac. But he was at Jullaird dancing in tights bf he was a gangsta rapper. FACTS!
Wasn't a gangster rapper
Pac wasn’t a gangster rapper please stop putting him in that category
He never went to Jillard. Try harder.
In the picture of this video, it looks like Michell Jai White is about to snap his left hand back over his shoulder😂 tell me I’m lying girl! 😂😂😂
Did anyone else start singing Human Nature
“Yes i am gonna say that imma thug, cause they labeled me a gangsta and i’m still here…not cause i rob you and things..”
Lmao, and he is a Z list actor with straight to dvd movies
still a legend lol
And he's still alive...MJW wins, flawless victory 😂
It was a 3 year Gap from his highschool interview from filming-recording juice 1988-1991.
Vlad: Did you see the movie I'm talking about?
MJW: (bro you barely described it and didn't even say the title)
Mica White a real street dude 😢 stop it 😂 PAC had so many haters it’s actually funny
It’s sad how many people have been influenced by Tupac as the gangsta rapper and never realized that he was NEVER that guy to begin with.
It’s not sad at all. Pac wasn’t about gangster or thuggish. He was about the underdogs building themselves up into something from nothing or keeping your pride in the presence of adversity. His “Thug Life” tattoo meaning is total opposite to criminal activity.
he could easily be that guy though and he proved it. even if it wasnt to begin with its who he decided to be. its only sad becuase really young and impressionable kids even like myself growing up had to understand it alll over time. it was a potential problem though in the early days taking the negativity too serious
The moment he decided to scream MOB this & that, was the moment he decided to be gangsta. Unfortunately for him, he made that decision a little too late.
I danced to Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Baby. It doesn't make me soft because alot of people are claiming they haven't when many black people were, especially when that beat dropped.
Its mind blowing until this day they still talking about Tupac after 25 years
What he's saying is true.i said the same thing but watching it as experienced actor you could easily call that break of character by way of borderline personality alters.