Pastor Jamal Bryant, the leader of the newborn missionary Baptist Church, publicly urged Clark Atlanta University to award Tupac Shakur an honorary degree after his death. The proposed honor is based on the claim that the late rap idol once went to school. However, multiple biographers and hip-hop historians call the claim a debate.
In a recent appearance on the Gaud Show Podcast, Kobe announced that Shakur went to Clark Atlanta University for one semester before joining Digital Underground and starting his music career.
“I grew up in Tupac, Baltimore,” he said. “A lot of people are lying in California, like he’s from Los Angeles and he’s from West Baltimore. He went to Baltimore Art School. A lot of people didn’t know he went to Clark Atlanta University for a semester. I don’t know, I don’t know – I get it! Roadie dropped out of Clark, and that’s his true story.
question? According to author and journalist Jeff Pearlman, this is completely wrong.
Pearlman spent nearly three years studying Shakur, and his forthcoming book could only judge me: many of the lives of Tupac Shakur. He said Bryant had none of his accounts. “It’s not true literally,” Perlman said. “Tupac never attended Clark. He didn’t even graduate from high school.”
Allhiphop contacted Pearlman for his advice.
“I can tell you that in fact, he went to Atlanta to do a new Afrikan Panthers job, but he spent a lot of time with a group of students at the Atlanta Academy of Arts,” he said. “The few aspiring rappers live in apartment H10 in the Lennox Woods apartment building. They set up a group called H10. One of the members was Steve Gibson, who would later be half-half and with “Whoppl” (where) a damn world. Tupac actually developed a lot of style from these hanging out hangouts, but he never graduated from college.
Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in New York and moved to Baltimore as a teenager where he attended Roland Park High School at Dunbar High School and later at Baltimore Art School. He moved to Marin, California before his senior year, and went to Tamalpass High School and then dropped out. As Pastor Jamal Bryant said, he encountered Digital Underground in the Bay Area, not Atlanta.
Perlman also clarified that the only known link between Tupac Shakur and Clark Atlanta University was the disastrous homecoming performance in 1993.
“He used to perform at their homecoming events. In all respects, it was a disaster,” Perlman said in an online post. “He was drunk, high, disoriented, did not perform his known songs, and about 70% of the crowd went out. That night, he shot two off-duty police officers in Atlanta.”
Pastor Kobe also claimed that his grandmother taught DMX how to read during the later rapper’s difficult childhood. The assertion has not been verified and has not been publicly confirmed by DMX’s family or official biographer. Our inquiries with DMX biographer or real estate have not been returned immediately.
Pearlman’s book was published in October and said Kobe’s claim symbolized his difficulties in writing the book on Tupac Shakur.
“This is one of the most frustrating parts of studying Tupac: People are just inventing stories. It’s been 30 years. Maybe their memories are foggy, or maybe they want to pay attention. I don’t know what Jamal Bryant is thinking.”
These remarks have rekindled attention to the spread of misinformation in hip-hop history, especially because culture has been around for more than 50 years. At the same time, other media also hold unfounded Kobe’s claims.
One historian who would rather remain anonymous said: “People want to be associated with greatness, but rewriting history does more harm than good, especially for artists like Tupac, whose true story is powerful enough without decoration.”
Clark Atlanta University has not yet publicly responded to Kobe’s honors degree.
Go here, only God can judge me: many lives of Tupac Shakur.
Chuck’s “Jigsaw Puzzle” stream contributes to the story.
Related
What do you think of this article?
Share your thoughts and join the discussion in the comments below!
