Hip Hop + Change Lesson Plan 4

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Discipline is doing something even if you don’t feel like doing it.

Who is Kanye West?

Kanye West was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived with his parents. When he was three years old,

his parents divorced, and he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois. His father was Ray West, a

former Black Panther who was one of the first black photojournalists at The Atlanta Journal-

Constitution. Kanye's mother, Dr. Donda West, was a Professor of English at Clark Atlanta University,

and the Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University before retiring to serve as West's

manager. Donda West passed away in 2007 and was buried in Oklahoma City where she attended

Douglass High School, class of 1967.

Kanye was raised in a middle-class background, attending Polaris High School in suburban Oak Lawn,

Illinois after living in Chicago. When asked about his grades in high school, West replied, "I got A's and

B's. And I'm not even frontin'.” West attended art classes at the American Academy of Art in Chicago,

and also enrolled at Chicago State University, but dropped out to focus on his music career.

Kanye first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved

recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including

Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His five solo albums, all of which have gone platinum, have

received numerous awards and critical acclaim. As of 2012, West has won a total of eighteen Grammy

Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time. All albums have been very

commercially successful, with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy becoming his fourth consecutive No.1

album in the U.S. upon release. He has sold over 30 million digital songs in the United States making him

one of the best-selling digital artists of all time.

Hip Hop + Change Lesson Plan 5

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Discipline is doing what you’re supposed to do, even when you don’t feel like it.

Who is Dr. Dre?

André Romelle Young was born in Compton, California on February 18, 1965. In 1976, Young began

attending Vanguard Junior High School in Compton, but due to gang violence, he transferred to the safer

suburban Roosevelt Junior High School. Verna later married Warren Griffin, whom she met at her new

job in Long Beach, which added three stepsisters and one stepbrother to the family. That stepbrother,

Warren Griffin III, would eventually become rapper Warren G.

Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and he later found fame

with the influential rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella which popularized the

use of explicit lyrics to detail the realities of street life. His 1992 solo debut, released under Death Row

Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993 and to win a

Grammy Award for the single "Let Me Ride". In 1996, he left Death Row to establish his own label,

Aftermath Entertainment.

He has produced albums for and overseen the careers of many rappers, including Snoop Dogg, Eminem

and 50 Cent. As a producer he is credited as a seminal figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk.

Rolling Stone named Dr. Dre among the highest-paid performers of 2001 and 2004.

Text Trivia

Question: What are the four pillars of hip hop?

Jeopardy!

History

1. In what city did hip hop originate?

2. What pioneering hip hop group made the song My Adidas?

Case Study

1. What is the name of Dr. Dre’s label?

2. With what group did Dr. Dre begin his career?

Skills

1. Name one way Dr. Dre practices discipline.

2. In your own words, what is discipline?

Final Jeopardy

1. What is the greatest selling hip hop album of all time?

Real Talk

Snoop Dogg In 2006, Snoop Dogg told the website Dubcnn.com that Dr. Dre had made new artist Bishop Lamont re-record a single bar of vocals 107 times. Dip Set Juelz Santana, “Dre had Jim [Jones] in the booth for like an hour and a half..." Jim Jones, "He definitely made me rap my verse like 33 times," Jones told us this past week about working with the good doctor. "It was cool. It was a great experience." Cam'ron, "He made me get out and do my verse over," he recalled. "He's real intricate. Basically, he was like, 'I want this kind of flow,' and he'll mumble it out,". "It was like, 'Yo, go do that again; it's terrible." DJ Quik "The man is getting piano lessons from Burt Bacharach and he's reinterpreting Chopin symphony stuff," longtime Dre cohort and reported Detox collaborator DJ Quik effused in a 2008 interview with Loud.com. "It's crazy, he's lost his mind. He's got like 400 records."

Hip Hop + Change Lesson Plan 6

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Perseverance is doing what you’re supposed do in the face of a challenge.

Who is Jay-Z?

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is a rapper, record

producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists

and entrepreneurs in United States, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010. He has sold

approximately 50 million albums worldwide, while receiving thirteen Grammy Awards for his musical

work, and numerous additional nominations. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of

all-time. Two of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996) and The Blueprint (2001) are considered

landmarks in the genre with both of them being ranked in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500

greatest albums of all time. Blender included the former on their 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die.

Jay-Z co-owns the 40/40 Club, is part-owner of the NBA's New Jersey Nets and is also the creator of the

line Rocawear. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings, one of the co-founders of Roc-A-Fella

Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums

by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with eleven. Jay-Z has released a book titled Decoded, which is a

collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of hip hop from Jay-Z’s perspective.

He married American R&B superstar Beyoncé Knowles in 2008. In 2009, Jay-Z was ranked as the 10th

most successful artist of the 2000's by Billboard. Originally from Marcy Houses, a housing project in the

Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Jay-Z was abandoned by his father and

in 1982 and he shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry. Carter attended Eli Whitney High

School in Brooklyn, along with future rapper AZ, until it was closed down. After that he attended George

Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in Downtown Brooklyn, with fellow future

rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes.

According to his mother, Gloria Carter, Jay-Z used to wake his siblings up at night banging out drum

patterns on the kitchen table. Eventually, she bought him a boom box for his birthday, sparking his

interest in music. He began freestyling, writing lyrics, and followed the music of many artists popular at

the time. In his neighborhood, Carter was known as "Jazzy", a nickname that eventually developed into

his stage name, "Jay-Z". The moniker is also an homage to his musical mentor, Jaz-O, as well as to the J/Z

subway lines that have a stop at Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn.

Text Trivia

Question: What are the four pillars of hip hop?

Jeopardy!

History

Who is considered the godfather of hip hop?

a. Afrika Bambaataa

b. P. Diddy

c. DJ Kool Herc

This company was one of the first hip hop record labels ever; they signed artists like Jay-Z, Public Enemy,

LL Cool J, Rick Ross, and Ludacris.

d. Death Row

e. Def Jam

f. Rap-A-Lot

Case Study

Name one of Jay-Z’s companies?

What is the name of Jay-Z’s book?

Skills

3. In your own words, what is perseverance?

4. Jay-Z demonstrates perseverance by:

a. Overcoming poverty

b. Marrying Beyonce

c. Watching TV

Final Jeopardy

1. Perform one classic hip hop dance: The Wop, The Running Man, or the Cabbage Patch.

Hip Hop + Change Lesson 7

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Perseverance is doing what you’re supposed do in the face of a challenge.

Who is K’Naan?

Born in Somalia, Keinan Abdi Warsame, better known as K'naan, spent his childhood in Mogadishu and

lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. His name, Keinan, means "traveller". He

spent the early years of his life listening to the hip-hop records sent to him from America by his father,

who had left Somalia earlier. When he was 13, K'naan, his mother, and his three siblings, left their

homeland and joined relatives in New York City, where they stayed briefly before moving to Canada, to

Toronto where his family still resides. There, K'naan began learning English by listening to hip hop

albums by artists like Nas and Rakim. Despite the fact that he could not yet speak the language, the

young K'naan taught himself rap diction, copying the lyrics and style phonetically, when he began

rapping. While growing up in Toronto, K'naan lost many friends to murder, suicide, prison and

deportation.

K'naan became a friend and associate of Canadian promoter Sol Guy, who helped him secure a speaking

engagement before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1999, where K'naan

performed a poem criticizing the UN for its failed aid missions to Somalia. One of the audience

members, Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, was so impressed by the young MC's performance and

courage that he invited him to contribute to his 2001 album Building Bridges, a project through which

K'naan was able to tour the world.

K'naan rose to mainstream popularity by participating in the 2008 BET Awards Cypher. This was his first

appearance on American television. His second studio album, Troubadour, was released on 24 February

2009. The album's first single, "ABC's", was released in late 2008 and was featured in Madden NFL 09.

A remixed version of K'naan's single, "Wavin' Flag," was chosen as Coca-Cola's anthem for the 2010 FIFA

World Cup. In December 2009, K'naan performed the song live during the sponsor's FIFA World Cup

Trophy Tour, which took him to 86 countries around the world. His performance of "Wavin' Flag" was

featured in the Top 10 hits in 11 different countries across the world. This also included number one hits

in Mexico, China, Germany and Switzerland.

Jeopardy!

History

Who is credited with coining the term hip hop? Keith Cowboy and/or Lovebug Starski

The Sugarhill Gang

Keith Cowboy

Lovebug Starski

Who made this classic hip hop song? PLAY PLANET ROCK again!

K’naan

Fresh Prince

Afrika Bambaataa

Case Study

What country is K’naan from? Somalia

Which K’naan song was in the Top 10 in 11 different countries?

ABC’s

Wavin’ Flag

Til I Get There

Skills

In your own words, what is perseverance?

K’naan demonstrates perseverance by:

Surviving Civil War

Voting for Obama

Playing Video Games

Final Jeopardy

Perform one classic hip hop dance: The Wop, The Running Man, or the Cabbage Patch.

Real Talk (5 mins) - Arif

M-1 feat K’naan, Til I Get There Verse 1: Here we go From the poorest and blackest of people To surviving the streets of Mogadishu The most dangerous armed and lethal Yet peaceful, we know evil I come from the slums that's run down Spit native intelligent tongue sounds Would rather get gunned down than dumbed down So calm down

Civil war started in 1991 and is still happening; averages 1,400 deaths per year with a total of 400,000 fatalities.

An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 children, sometimes as young as 9, are currently enlisted in the Somali armed forces.

According to the statistics, 60% of Somalis live below the poverty line, meaning they make less than 2 dollars per day.

In Somalia, about three fourths of children don’t go to school. Only one out of four adults knows how to read and write.

Hip Hop + Change Lesson 8

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Perseverance is doing what you’re supposed do and not giving up, even in the face of a challenge.

Who is the Rock Steady Crew?

B-boying, often called "breakdancing", is a popular style of street dance that was created and developed

as part of hip-hop culture among Black and Latino youth in New York City. The dance consists of four

primary elements: toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes. It is danced to both hip-hop and other

genres of music that are often mixed to prolong the musical breaks. A practitioner of this dance is called

a b-boy, b-girl, or breaker. Breakers often participate in battles, formal or informal dance competitions

between two individuals or two crews. Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa says, “b-boys, [are] what you

call break boys or b-girls, what you call break girls.”

The most highly recognized name in the b-boy world is the Rock Steady Crew.

The Rock Steady Crew was established in 1977 in the Bronx by b-boys Jimmy D and Jojo. Rock Steady

started in the streets of the Bronx, but quickly spread to other boroughs including Manhattan, Brooklyn,

and later to Japan and England.

Everyone wanted to be down with Rock Steady, but in order to join you had to defeat someone from the

Crew in a battle. In 1979, Jimmy D added Richard “Crazy Legs” Colon to the Rock Steady Crew. After

Crazy Legs joined Rock Steady he started a chapter in Manhattan.

In 1981, everyone started to take notice of Rock Steady. Photographer Henry Chalfant offered Rock

Steady an opportunity to perform at the Lincoln Center Outdoors Program. This performance, which was

a battle with rival b-boys from The Dynamic Rockers, was covered by local tv stations, The New York

Times, The Village Voice, The Daily News and National Geographic. Afterwards, co-founder Jimmy D

named Crazy Legs the President of the entire Rock Steady Crew.

In 1982, Rock Steady became members of Afrika Bambaataa’s Zulu Nation.

Eventually, Rock Steady expanded into a huge family including women, children, roller skaters, graffiti artists and DJs. The Roxy Tour took the Rock Steady Crew along with Afrika Bambaataa, Fab Five Freddie, The McDonald Double Dutch Girls, and a host of DJs and graffiti artists straight from New York City to London and Paris - the first hip-hop tour of its kind.

In 1983, the Rock Steady Crew was asked by the Queen of England to perform at the Royal Variety Performance.

Rock Steady began to make several tv and film appearances including the Late Show with David Letterman, and hip hop classics Wild Style and Beat Street.

But Rock Steady’s biggest break was an appearance in the box office smash “Flashdance”. This lead to a nationwide craze that was then being called “breakdancing”. In 1991, Mr. Wiggles approached Crazy Legs about an idea for a hip-hop musical. The musical was called "So, What Happens Now?". The musical was the critics’ choice in the New York Times. In 1992, Rock Steady received a standing ovation at the Kennedy Center Honors.

As president of Rock Steady Crew, Crazy Legs hosts and organizes the annual Rock Steady Anniversary, a community event that honors deceased members of the crew and celebrates hip hop culture both past and present. In 2003, during Rock Steady’s 26th Anniversary Celebration, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg proclaimed July 26 to be "Rock Steady Crew Day" in New York City.

Text Trivia

Question: What hip hop artist or group was the first to receive a shoe endorsement contract?

Jeopardy!

History

What does the b in b-boy or b-girl stand for?

boogaloo

bounce

break

What does the “break” in breakdancing refer to?

To break glass

To break wind

To the dance to the musical break

Case Study

In which New York City borough was the Rock Steady Crew established?

Manhattan

The Bronx

Brooklyn

Which classic hip hop film stars the Rock Steady Crew?

Beat Street

Krush Groove

Breakin’

Skills

In your own words, what is perseverance?

The Rock Steady Crew demonstrates perseverance by:

Hosting a Rock Steady Anniversary event every year

Voting for Obama

Playing video games

Final Jeopardy

Who is the president of the Rock Steady Crew?

Hip Hop + Change Lesson 9

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Perseverance is doing what you’re supposed do in the face of a challenge.

Question: Which graffiti artist is credited with being the first to go “all city”? TAKI 183

What is graffiti?

Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on a wall or other surface in a public

place. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since

ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Egypt.

In modern times, spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials.

Graffiti may also express underlying social and political messages. Within hip hop culture, graffiti has

evolved alongside djing, mcing, and b-boying. Towards the end of the 1960s, the signatures—tags—of

Philadelphia graffiti writers Top Cat, Cool Earl and Cornbread started to appear. Around 1970–71, the

center of graffiti innovation moved to New York City where writers following TAKI 183 and Tracy 168

would add their street number to their nickname, "bomb" a train with their work, and let the subway

take it "all city” which is being known for one's graffiti throughout a city. Originally, all-city meant to be

known throughout the five boroughs of New York by way of subway cars. Taki 183 is often credited with

being the first to go “all city”.

Bubble lettering held sway initially among writers from the Bronx, but the elaborate Brooklyn style Tracy

168 called "wildstyle" would come to define the art. Phase 2, Dondi and Kase 2 were early pioneers.

The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises both from early graffiti artists practicing

other aspects of hip hop, and graffiti being practiced in areas where other elements of hip hop were

evolving as art forms.

Who is Kase 2?

Jeffery "Kase 2" Brown was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1958. Kase 2 is considered one of the

originators of the "camouflage" sketching technique, which is also referred to as “wild style” - graffiti

with text so stylized that it is difficult to read.

KASE 2 developed his own form of “wild style”, which he called “computer rock”. Computer rock-style

graffiti transformed the alphabet into boxes and jumbled them up, presenting a dynamic movement of

the letters.

Kase 2 was featured in 1983's hip hop documentary Style Wars, where he famously called himself "the

style king". He was one of the most famous members of The Fantastic Partners (TFP), a Bronx-based

graffiti crew that helped to popularize bombing or painting whole subway cars during the 1970s.

All were amazed by Kase 2’s ability to paint such large and elaborate masterpieces when he only had

one arm.

King Kase 2 painted hundreds of pieces. So many, that his computer rock style has influenced thousands.

When he died last year graffiti writers across the globe created murals in his honor.

Jeopardy!

History

In the world of graffiti, what is a tag?

A stylized signature

A piece of fabric with artistic washing instructions

What dogs wear for identification

What does mean to go “all city”?

Being known for one's graffiti throughout a city

Mixing paint all over a city

To know every graffiti writer in a city

Case Study

What is the name of the style that Kase 2 invented?

Computer Love

Computer Funk

Computer Rock

What is the name of the classic hip hop film that featured Kase 2?

Skills

In your own words, what is perseverance?

Kase 2 demonstrated perseverance by:

Opening an art gallery

Bombing whole subway cars with one arm

Jumping rope everyday

Final Jeopardy

What is the meaning of the term “wildstyle”?

What was the name of Kase 2’s crew?

Hip Hop + Change Lesson 10

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Initiative is seeing something that needs to be done and doing it.

Secret Slide: Which hip hop DJ invented scratching? Grand Wizard Theodore

What is DJing?

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience.

Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not compact discs (cds). Today, the term includes all

forms of music playback, no matter the medium.

There are several types of DJs. Radio DJs or radio personalities introduce and play music that is

broadcast on AM, FM, shortwave, digital, or internet radio stations. Club DJs select and play music in

bars, nightclubs, or discothèques, or at parties or raves, or even in stadiums. Hip hop DJs select and play

music using multiple turntables, often to back up one or more MCs, and they may also do turntable

scratching to create percussive sounds. DJing is a cornerstone of hip hop culture, because it was the first

element to be developed.

Who is Grandmaster Flash? Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing.

Joseph Saddler's family migrated to the United States from Barbados and he grew up in The Bronx, New

York. He attended Samuel Gompers High School, a public vocational school, where he learned how to

repair electronic equipment. Saddler's parents played an important role in his interest in music. His

parents came from Barbados and his father was a big fan of Caribbean and black American records.

As a child, Saddler was fascinated by his father's record collection. Saddler's early interest in DJing came

from this fascination with his father's record collection as well as his mother's desire for him to learn

about electronics.

Grandmaster Flash carefully studied the DJing styles and techniques of earlier DJs, particularly Pete

Jones, Kool Herc, and Grandmaster Flowers. He was the first DJ to physically lay his hands on the vinyl

and manipulate it in a backward, forward or counterclockwise motion. As a teenager, he began

experimenting with DJ equipment in his bedroom, eventually developing and mastering three

innovations that are still considered standard DJing techniques today.

Quick-Mix Theory (Beat Juggling): Early New York party DJs came to understand that short drum breaks were popular with party audiences. Aiming to isolate these breaks and extend them for longer durations, Grandmaster Flash learned that by using duplicate copies of the same record, he could play the break on one record while searching for the same fragment of music on the

other (using his headphones). When the break finished on one turntable, he used his mixer to switch quickly to the other turntable, where the same beat was queued up and ready to play. Using the backspin technique, the same short phrase of music could be looped indefinitely.

Punch Phrasing (Clock Theory): This technique involved isolating very short segments of music, typically horn hits, and rhythmically punching them over the sustained beat using the mixer.

Scratching: Although the invention of record scratching is generally credited to Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster Flash perfected the technique and brought it to new audiences. Scratching, along with punch phrasing, exhibited a unique performative aspect of party DJing: instead of passively spinning records, he manipulated them to create new music.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007,

becoming the first hip hop/rap artists to be so honored.

Text Trivia

Question: What is Grandmaster Flash’s legal name?

Jeopardy!

History

Which element of hip hop developed first?

Rapping

Breakdancing

DJing

What do the initials DJ stand for?

Case Study

Where did Grandmaster Flash and his family live before arriving in New York?

Jamaica

Barbados

Bahamas

Which DJ technique did Grandmaster Flash invent?

Punch phrasing

Transforming

Scratching

Skills

In your own words, what is initiative?

Grandmaster Flash demonstrated initiative by:

Rocking parties all night long

Developing the Quick Mix Theory

Inventing the cassette tape

Final Jeopardy

Grandmaster Flash perfected scratching, but which hip hop DJ is often credited with inventing the

technique?

Hip Hop + Change Lesson 11

Douglass Middle School

Study Guide

*Initiative is seeing something that needs to be done and doing it.

Secret Slide: To protect his true identity, what name was listed on Tupac’s birth certificate?

Lesane Parish Crooks

Who is Tupac?

Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in East Harlem, New York on June 16, 1971. He was named after Túpac

Amaru II, a Peruvian revolutionary who led an indigenous uprising against Spain and was subsequently

executed. His mother, Afeni Shakur, and his father, Billy Garland, were active members of the Black

Panther Party in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Early on, Tupac was groomed to be an

activist. At the age of twelve, Tupac enrolled in Harlem's 127th Street Repertory Ensemble and was cast

as the Travis Younger character in the play A Raisin in the Sun, which was performed at the Apollo

Theater. In 1986, the family relocated to Baltimore, Maryland. He transferred to the Baltimore School

for the Arts, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. Known then as MC New York, and

accompanied by one of his friends, Dana "Mouse" Smith, as his beatbox, Tupac won several rap

competitions and was considered to be the school’s best MC. He was remembered as one of the most

popular kids at the school because of his sense of humor, superior rapping skills, and ability to relate to

almost anyone.

In June 1988, Tupac and his family moved to Marin City, California, a community of mainly housing

projects located just north of San Francisco where he attended Tamalpais High School. Tupac was a

voracious reader. He was inspired by a wide variety of writers, including William Shakespeare, Niccolò

Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker and Khalil Gibran. He began attending the poetry

classes of Leila Steinberg in 1989. That same year, Steinberg organized a concert with Tupac’s group,

Strictly Dope; the concert led to him being signed with Atron Gregory who hired him as a roadie and

backup dancer for the rap group Digital Underground in 1990. Tupac's professional career began in the

early 1990s, when he debuted on the Digital Underground single "Same Song”. Later, he released his

first solo album, 2Pacalypse Now, which featured the single “Brenda’s Got a Baby”. Shakur went on to

release several critically acclaimed and multi-platinum albums, including:

Me Against The World (1995) - Released while Tupac was in prison in 1995, the album made an

immediate impact on the charts. Shakur was the first artist to have an album debut at number one on

Billboard 200 while serving time in prison. The album served as one of Tupac's most positively reviewed

albums and is considered one of the greatest and most influential hip hop albums of all-time.

All Eyez On Me (1996) - Was the fourth studio album by Tupac, released February 13, 1996 on Death

Row Records. The album is frequently recognized as one of the crowning achievements of 1990s rap

music. It was certified 5× platinum after just two months and 9× platinum in two years. Moreover, All

Eyez On Me made history as the first double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass

consumption.

The Don Killuminati 7 Day Theory (1996) - The Don Killuminati: 7 Day Theory is the fifth and final studio

album by Tupac under the new stage name Makaveli. The album was finished before his death and the

first studio album to be posthumously released. The album was completed in only seven days in August

1996.

On September 7, 1996, Tupac was shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was taken to the University

Medical Center, where he died six days later. Tupac used hip hop as a medium to address a range of

social injustices including, violence and hardship in inner cities, poverty and racism. He has sold over 75

million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling and most influential music artists in the

world.

Text Trivia

Question: Who is Tupac named after?

Jeopardy!

History

What is Tupac’s Mother’s name?

Assata

Afeni

Aisha

Which name did Tupac use when he first started rapping?

New McYork

New York MC

MC New York

Case Study

Attending what school helped Tupac to develop his skills as a hip hop artist?

Promise Academy

Baltimore School of the Arts

Marin City High School

Which record label released Tupac’s All Eyez On Me?

Aftermath Records

Amaru Entertainment

Death Row Records

Skills

In your own words, what is initiative?

Tupac demonstrated initiative by:

Using hip hop as a medium to address social injustices

Joining the Black Panther Party

Painting the Statue of Liberty black