Cyrus Langhorne
Late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur‘s words still ring true in 2016 as a throwback video interview featuring him discussing real estate mogul Donald Trump‘s corporate greed has surfaced online.
The 1992 footage features Pac talking to music news network MTV about America’s money-hungry and unfair habits, notably singling out the Trumpster.
“It’s such a gimme-gimme-gimme, everybody back off. Everybody. You get taught that from school. Big business. You want to be successful? You want to be like Trump? Gimme-gimme-gimme, push-push-push-push, step-step-step, crush-crush-crush. That’s how it all is. Instead of us just being like, ‘Slavery’s bad. Slavery’s down. Bad whitey, bad whitey.’ All right. Let’s stop that. Everybody’s smart enough to know we’ve been slighted and we want ours. And I don’t mean ours – 40 acres and a mule – us meaning youth or us meaning black people – we do need help. … It’s like you got a friend you don’t look out for – they’re lending money to everyone except us.” (MTV News)
Odd Future leader Tyler, the Creator took aim at Donald on Instagram last week.
Recently, rap star Rick Ross revealed his disinterest in staying updated on Trump’s presidential campaign.
“I haven’t been keeping up with that donkey. I keep it real. You know, before the wave, on my album Black Market, I gave everybody my energy so it’s out there. Y’all know how Rozay rock. Now it’s just time for me to continue building my empire regardless who comes in power, Rozay still gonna rise to the top, we don’t give a f*ck about who it is. But we always think about our brothers and the others.” (Tim Westwood TV)
Earlier this month, New York rapper Joey Bada$$ weighed-in on Trump running for president.
“With him, he’s rich as f*ck, he’s getting the best looks,” Joey said referring to Trump. “Whether good or bad, all publicity is good publicity. The way the sh*t is going right now, it’s like he’s already the president. Especially with all of this new chaos that’s breaking out at all his rallies – it’s like, ‘Yo. They’re about to turn the f*ck up.’ They’ve been provoking that in us for a minute and I feel like they’re going to go to the most extreme measure they could until we start really turning up and then they can just kill us. Yeah. … This sh*t is like WWE with Donald Trump.” (Whoolywood Shuffle)
