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by toasterlovin 2954 days ago
To be fair, 2Pac went to a performing arts high school, was a poet and actor, and sold 75 million albums. Seems like he had a good chance at avoiding his fate.
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Neil Degrasse Tyson had many these advantages too and American culture didn’t hold him back at all. Not that he didn’t face prejudice at all but it very clearly wasn’t a roadblock.

Eminem had no social advantages and he got caught up in the thug life that Tupac (specifically) inspired.