‘That’s the Worst Case’: Tupac Shakur’s Heartbreaking Reflections on Life 10 Years From Now in 1994

‘That’s the Worst Case’: Tupac Shakur’s Heartbreaking Reflections on Life 10 Years From Now in 1994

Tupac always rapped with an ominous fixation on death. He looked at life with a tragically ironic sense of paranoia that something bad would happen to him. Even with all of his success, Pac knew how ugly and dour everything around him could be. That’s why songs like “Death Around The Corner” feel so fatalistic or why “Hail Mary” sounds like a graveyard. It expanded past the music, too. His interviews would often challenge the world’s notions and…