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Tupac vs Marvin Gaye

Dear Mama", "That's Just the Way it Is", and "It's all About You" and Marvin's songs "Inner City Blues," "What's Going On," and "Let's Get it On," a new focus appeared that functioned to reflect outlooks on personal strife, politics, and women. When Gaye's first album received little attention, Motown pushed him to record up tempo soul music material. He also recorded a number of romantic duets with Tammi Terrell. However after Terrell's death in 1970, Gaye established a new style of soul music with the album What's Going On, a deeply personal and spiritual reflection on family and social issues. A work that focused on current events rather than romance. Similarly, Tupac Shakur's debut album, 2pacalypse Now, revealed cultural indebtedness with almost disarming naivet.2 The first sounds of Tupac developing social views through an artist's voice has untold promise. However, like Gaye, in Shakur's subsequent albums, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z and Me Against the World, Tupac's lyrics appeared to coarsen and the "untold promise" seemed to break; culminating into the controversial and notorious sound of his first Death Row album: All Eyez On Me. Reflecting on the lyrics of "Me Against the World" (Shakur) and "Make Me Wanna Holler" (Gaye), another correlation between the artists' musical style is established. Both songs serve as a translation of the artists' personal assessment of his position in their respective societies. Though Gaye uses the outpouring of a syncopated blues rhythm overlain with the sheer honesty of his reality, and Tupac uses obtrusive and jarring language spit out over a percussive sound, the lyrics serve the same essential function. They act to translate the struggle to overcome the oppression induced by the politics of society into sound. Looking first at the choruses of the songs initiates the formation of a similarity between the two. "Make Me Wanna Holler" builds its chorus around the words: Make me wanna holler the w...

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