SuperPasTime - Monument of Tupac Shakur

All hail the next monument idea in Serbia – Belgrade, rappers gathered around the hip-hop forum “Rad” and “Vizija” are discussing the best place to honor Tupac Shakur, and so far Marinkova Bara seems like the best idea, because “there’s no place in Belgrade that looks more like a ghetto than this.” This Belgrade suburb is inhabited mostly by Gypsies and the area where the monument is supposed to be set up is currently, according to the people behind the idea, poorly lit, full of trash and generally considered unsafe.

Let’s hope that the idea comes to life, like the Bob Marley monument in Banatski Sokolac did. The idea is to give to the community a safe place where kids could hang out and play, and the choice of Tupac should serve as a sign of warning not to turn to crime, drugs and street life.

Serbian rap and hip-hop is in pretty good shape, with numerous sub-genres, beefs among various crews and clans, like in the US, for example, but unlike the states, there is almost nobody making money for living out of hip-hop – most of it is just side projects of enthusiasts. Which makes it, in many cases, better than the stuff coming from the home of hip-hop.

So far the idea has reached many Serbian news stations, but I haven’t noticed it in English speaking ones, so spread the word, if you think it’s interesting.

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 — September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makiavelli, was an American rapper. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a successful film actor and a prominent social activist. He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling hip-hop artist with over seventy five million albums sold worldwide, including over fifty million in the United States. Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society and conflicts with other rappers.

On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, and died six days later of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at the University Medical Center.

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