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“Funny, huh? The hospital fired her ’cause she was sick.” Two months later, she wasn’t pulling her load on the job, ’cause when you’re going through chemo, you can’t pull big-ass garbage bins around. When she got sick, them clowns at the hospital claimed they’d work with her. I got tired of choosing between lights and food.” “I don’t need help from nobody, okay? And that li’l minimum-wage job your pops gave me didn’t make nothing happen. “Mind your business, Starr! Don’t worry ’bout me.

#TUPAC THEY DON T GIVE AF ABOUT US MOVIE#

I’m also convinced that The Hate U Give also will be a better 2pac movie than the biopic after seeing the trailers for All Eyez On Me but that’s another rant aside.Īt several key points of the book, 2pac’s works are used to both foreshadow and create exposition: While the archetypes aren’t inherently limited to Tupac or even hip hop, but when stacked together, I believe that The Hate U Give affirms a deep study of Tupac and is much a homage to the better aspects of Tupac. That said, whether by conscience choice or simply happenstance, They Hate you Give is a hip hop novel where Tupac Shakur’s work is at the core of the tale, and is deeply entrenched with hip hop references and Tupacian thematic archetypes. The phrase “the black experience” exists for a pretty clear reason, the white majority of Americans do not experience America the same as African Americans. Simply by writing a book that deals with racism will overlap with thematic issues covered by Tupac and by an even greater extent, hip hop at large.

I’ll fully admit some of the points I’ll make are likely happenstance and/or simply reflective of the realities of racism in America. Despite how obvious it seems to me, I haven’t read any reviews connecting this story directly to Tupac so here’s my argument as to how deeply connected the book is to Tupac Shakur. I didn’t know going into this this book was that it draws heavily off Tupac Shakur, to the point of what I’d dub “Tupacian”. Tupac casts a large shadow over the entire book. It’s even about that little boy in 1955 who nobody recognized at first-Emmett.” “It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. Only in the closing passages does Starr mention real police shootings, letting the reader explore the parallels without drawing any connection one particular event. That said, real events are mostly non-addressed except in closing and I’d argue for the better. Other than the “every town” setting, it’s meant to exist in our world, where 2pac existed and current rappers Drake, J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar and various other celebrities reside. The novel is set in unnamed city other than Starr’s neighborhood of Garden Heights, set in present day. From there, it follows Starr Carter’s life between the family dynamics of her father, mother, older half brother, Seven, and younger brother, Sekani. After reading reviews the premise caught me: a young black woman is with her friend when he’s tragically fatally shot by a trigger happy police officer. I just finished The Hate U Give, which isn’t my usual fair, young adult. Reading this review will inevitably spoil minor details but purposely tries to avoid any big reveals.

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I wrote this analysis/review as spoiler free as possible but it does contain excerpts from the novel and discusses the book at length.

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