{"id":148809,"date":"2025-11-23T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/148809\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:19:14","slug":"tupac-shakur-once-gave-a-passionate-interview-in-1994-explaining-why-he-felt-god-cursed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/148809\/","title":{"rendered":"Tupac Shakur Once Gave a Passionate Interview in 1994, Explaining Why He Felt God \u201cCursed\u201d Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most admirable quality about Tupac Shakur was (arguably) his empathy. He knew personally what it was like to struggle, to feel like he was stuck in a trap. Thinking about the economic disparity and racial injustice in America, there was a sense of gloom and doom. Consequently, when rap started to pay for him, he got to see both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>However, rather than rest on those laurels, Pac fixated on his prior struggles. He felt burdened by the knowledge of what it\u2019s like to live a good life while everyone else suffers. By knowing both, his catharsis was hampered, a never-ending torment. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZIl3k9C7HGo?si=aZrBBllaSJCNUvJd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">interview<\/a> with Ed Gordon in 1994, Tupac described this state of being as a curse God struck him down with. \u201cIf I can\u2019t live free, if I can\u2019t live with the same respect as the next man, I don\u2019t want to be here. God has cursed me to see what life should be like. If God wanted me to be this person and be happy here, he wouldn\u2019t let me feel so oppressed. He wouldn\u2019t let me feel so trampled on. He wouldn\u2019t let me think the things I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tupac Looked at The Good Life as a Curse Because of How Others Suffer Instead<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a selfless existence, where his own success can only bring him so much joy. When there are people crumbling due to the inequities of the American system, how can you feel unadulterated pleasure? There was always a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/thats-the-worst-case-tupac-shakurs-heartbreaking-reflections-on-life-10-years-from-now-in-1994\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pac<\/a> that thought about his fellow man and how they should feel peace. He knows what it\u2019s like to be at the bottom. Ultimately, he looked at his position of power as a way to be a tool for God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m doing God\u2019s work. Just because I don\u2019t have nothing to pass around for people to put money in a bucket don\u2019t mean I ain\u2019t doing God\u2019s work. These ghetto kids ain\u2019t God\u2019s children and I don\u2019t see no missionaries coming through there,\u201d Tupac explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReverend Jackson do his up in the middle class, and he go to the White House and have dinner and pray over the president. I\u2019m up in the hood\u2026 doing work with my folks. Just because I don\u2019t live there don\u2019t mean I don\u2019t go there. I got to go there because I can\u2019t hang nowhere else,\u201d Tupac added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most admirable quality about Tupac Shakur was (arguably) his empathy. He knew personally what it was like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,744,85,46,409,45266,56532],"class_list":["post-148809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-noisey","tag-tupac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}