Kendrick Lamar, Tupac Shakur: Analysis of People, their Peoples

    This is the third try for me to write this post, which I attempted to add a quote from Bob Marley about killing our prophets from Redemption Song.

    Did Marley speak for people, a people, his people? I think some would say so. 

    Did Tupac Shakur? I think so. He says at lot in his song "Changes", which states and implores that there are not enough changes, for the better, for his people, the Black community.

    Now we have Kendrick Lamar. He is the spokesperson, the eloquent wordsmith, for his people, and as an artist, not just for African Americans, but certainly for African Americans, but people and youth or others of his generation. 

    These are modern day prophets: we should heed their messages and words, their sermons and visions, their life examples and lessons. Religious, maybe not, directly from God's chosen, possibly so, but their words reverberate and resonate across our consciences and awareness.

    What is the bottom line? Things need to change, transform, improve, so better.

    Word. We thank them for their lives and examples. Their prophetic visions and proclamations. 

    These men left legacies and messages. They have and do. Let us not kill them repeatedly and for naught. Let us change and transform.