Why Tupac Should've been a Minister
Hello, all you beautiful people out there! Hope your week so far was wonderful and not too hot (thank you Mother Nature for the natural sauna lol!) So, today's post is gonna be all about exactly what the title says: why I feel that the late rapper Tupac should've been a gospel minister. LOL but in all seriousness, this'll be geared towards the men out there, inspired by both a Father's Day sermon like my Got Virtue?? post [which you can kindly check out right in this section---http://scarsofshe.blogspot.com/2014/05/got-virtue.html] and old school 90s rap by one of the greatest artists to have lived. Just like Got Virtue??, I was in church listening to my pastor preach about how it's time for the man to regain respect within society & the issues that have come about due to the decline in good, strong, respected men out there. One of the areas that these kid of men ha appeared to diminish in is fatherhood. There's so many single women out in the world raising their sons and daughters, often without the aid of a strong-headed father in the picture. My pastor chose to focus his sermon primarily on what makes a man an excellent teacher, breaking it down into three main points:
1) A good father should have a meaningful touch--one that brings about peace, strength , comfort and safety.
2) A good father should be able to speak life and hope into their family's lives--providing encouragement for their child(ren) & their female counterpart of pursuit of their innermost dreams, not allowing for any room for their decision to be questioned or worried about because they know that he is out there handling his business to provide for them.
and 3) A good father should assure his family of their value--using any way possible to show his family that they--aside from God--have the greatest influence over his decisions and that all he strives to do is to ensure that their needs are taken care of and that they are without nothing.
I also decided to add a bonus point: 4) A good father should be able to be able to show his strength without difficulty and maintain his level of integrity. A quote that summed this up in the absloute best way was by author Brenden Dilley: "Your greatest strength is allowing yourself to be vulnerable and outcome independent at the same time." -
Now, take a look at this excerpt from Tupac's 1993 song "Keep Ya Head Up" below [which you can also check out the video over here---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXwmDGJAB8]:
You know it makes me unhappy
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
1) A good father should have a meaningful touch--one that brings about peace, strength , comfort and safety.
2) A good father should be able to speak life and hope into their family's lives--providing encouragement for their child(ren) & their female counterpart of pursuit of their innermost dreams, not allowing for any room for their decision to be questioned or worried about because they know that he is out there handling his business to provide for them.
and 3) A good father should assure his family of their value--using any way possible to show his family that they--aside from God--have the greatest influence over his decisions and that all he strives to do is to ensure that their needs are taken care of and that they are without nothing.
I also decided to add a bonus point: 4) A good father should be able to be able to show his strength without difficulty and maintain his level of integrity. A quote that summed this up in the absloute best way was by author Brenden Dilley: "Your greatest strength is allowing yourself to be vulnerable and outcome independent at the same time." -
Now, take a look at this excerpt from Tupac's 1993 song "Keep Ya Head Up" below [which you can also check out the video over here---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXwmDGJAB8]:
You know it makes me unhappy
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
Though this was primarily directed towards the African American demographic---with Tupac begin African American and all--I can definitely see the relation between the two. Both had in some form, addressed the behaviors exhibited by men...... one stating how they should behave and the other addressing what will happen if things do not change soon. Though women have a special role in today's world and society, we cannot shy away from how great of a necessity men actually are. Too often, especially now, men are put down for what they don't have or cannot do... but tend to have the positive attributes ignored because they may not fit the ideal "good, strong man" persona.
Both the Bible verses and the song I chose seem to coincide with one another, indirectly concluding that those overlooked positives may be very well what is needed to distinguish between a 'bad boy' and a 'good, strong man'.
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